Alan Moore Adaptations fund BLM

[Ratman_tf]

By the by.

"What appealed to me most about comics is no more, and these innocent and inventive and imaginative superhero characters from the Forties, Fifties, Sixties are being recycled to a modern audience as if they were adult fare."

[jeff37923]

Overrated, anyway.  I read "Watchmen" like around 1990 and said, "That's it?"

"Watchmen" wasn't bad in my book. "V for Vendetta" was a festering pile of shit with a crappy message, though.

What "message"? The very point of the book is that there is no "message".

That you must become the moral and ethical equivalent of your enemies in order to defeat them.

[Trond]

He did that NOW?!? I could sort of see this happening amid the "they murdered the poor little innocent puppy George Floyd" hysteria, but now that most people have realized they're scam?? Has he been living under a....oh wait.

[Reckall]

Overrated, anyway.  I read "Watchmen" like around 1990 and said, "That's it?"

"Watchmen" wasn't bad in my book. "V for Vendetta" was a festering pile of shit with a crappy message, though.

What "message"? The very point of the book is that there is no "message".

That you must become the moral and ethical equivalent of your enemies in order to defeat them.

In Moore's own words:

[V's actions are] "very, very morally ambiguous" with the aim that "I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think."

[Eirikrautha]

Overrated, anyway.  I read "Watchmen" like around 1990 and said, "That's it?"

"Watchmen" wasn't bad in my book. "V for Vendetta" was a festering pile of shit with a crappy message, though.

What "message"? The very point of the book is that there is no "message".

That you must become the moral and ethical equivalent of your enemies in order to defeat them.

In Moore's own words:

[V's actions are] "very, very morally ambiguous" with the aim that "I didn't want to tell people what to think, I just wanted to tell people to think."

Authors can tell you what they intended to produce.  That may not be what they actually produced.  Otherwise, all literature would be good...

[Garry G]

He's never wanted that money and it's good that he's giving it to a cause he believes in.

[Armchair Gamer]

As far as I can tell, Moore has been part of the cynical poison destroying modern entertainment from the beginning, so this doesn't really surprise or disappoint me. Even the famous "For the Man Who Has Everything ..." has a pretty clear theme that "Krypton was better off dead"--and that was pre-Crisis, pre-Byrne.

[Svenhelgrim]

Has anyone actually checked to see if this guy actually gave his money away?  I'm guessing that he kept a large portion of it for himself and the quote left out that percentage.

[blackstone]

Alan Moore is overrated, pretentious, and an all out creep.
This next thing doesn't surprise me.

[Skullking]

Good job he no longer creates anything worth buying.

[Mistwell]

Misty and Reckall are still alive. Hi!

Hey there. Since I (rightfully) got booted from the "RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)" thread I don't find myself in this particular subforum as much these days. But I am still in the main gaming forum.

[Darrin Kelley]

Alan Moore was one of the two people responsible for decimating modern comics. By causing them to only serve an adult audience. Circulation went through the floor and hasn't stopped.

[BadApple]

His comics never really appealed to me.  When everyone was going nuts over his Batman run, I didn't like it.  There was a bitterness to them.  It shows through even more in The Watchmen.

[Scooter]

Glad I've never sent even a penny his way

[David Johansen]

Alan Moore was one of the two people responsible for decimating modern comics. By causing them to only serve an adult audience. Circulation went through the floor and hasn't stopped.

To be fair he admits this and is sorry.