On this date five years ago, Alan Moore's final comic was published. Alan Moore left comics five years ago. He will never return.
And nothing of value was lost.
He's Amanda Hisward
>>144543469His last comic work is still to be published this Fall. >>144543469Wish they'd do a new printing of the Tempest collection, it was clearly made from low dpi files, it's pixelated as fuck.
>>144543720I don't think that one quite counts as a comic book. I heard him talk about this in an interview once, if i remember correctly it's just an illustrated how-to book modeled after 1950s science books.
>>144543469Sorely missed. All-in-all, probably my favorite comic book writer.
I distinctly remember reading an excerpt of a kinda semi-autobiographical book by Moore.Like he is the main character and narrates his routine, but he does fantasy wizard shit like walk on the sea and stuff. Anyone know what i’m talking about?
>>144543823Wait, isnt Clorine a dangerous poison gas?
>>144545356Yeah, you need a fume hood for that shit.
>>144543720>Wish they'd do a new printing of the Tempest collection, it was clearly made from low dpi files, it's pixelated as fuck.can you show me an example of this, I'm paging through my spanish Planeta Comic copy and it looks perfectly fine from here
>>144543469Go read his short story collection, it's great.
>>144545580>Dossier NegroJesus Christ, Moore.
>>144543823There are comics included in it
>>144545834You do know how languages work, right?
Alan Moore can't escape capeshit no matter how hard he tries. I watched his film The Show from 2020 and even that had capeshit characters.
>>144545086I think it's called Jerusalem but I might be wrong.
>>144545877it was intentional
>>14454535650's kids were built differentzoom zooms wouldn't get it
>be Alan Moore>become the most celebrated comic writer of the last 40 years>Hollywood wants to adapt your comics onto the big screen and television >refuse to collaborate with them because of how they have mishandled and misinterpreted your work>ask them to remove your name off the credits to their films >also refuse all royalty checks from themNow do you understand why he has much better morals as a creator than Gaiman?
>>144545411Today it would be required.>>144546033You mean they had no resporatory systems?
>>144545889He was too good at it.
>>144543469>Alan Moore left comics five years ago. He will never return.He never should have started writing them in the first place.The ongoing collapse of the comic book industry is in many ways his fault.
>>144549634How?
>>144549678By bringing that deconstructionist crap into the mainstream. Moore, Miller, Gaiman, Wagner, Morrison and a few others are as much responsible for what comics are today as modern incompetent editors, if not more. Without shit like Watchmen, TDKR, Sandman, etc, comics would still be selling in the 250,000-500,000 range, they'd still be fun.
>>144546017Prove it.
>>144549825Fun? Like what?
>>144545086you might be thinking about this strip, only it was written by Neil Gaiman as a joke
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>>144549825>Bluh bluh bluh muh silver age boomer nostalgiaStop whining.
>>144549966Like the comics of the 60s and 70s. There were some great dark stories back then, but the writers didn't feel the need to shit, piss and spit on their characters like Moore/Miller/Morrison and their followers did in the 80s and 90s.
>>144550058>>144550067Yes it was exactly this, thank you
>>144549825The only thing the Brits caused was making pencillers realize that making up plots for their comics just for hacks like Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman to fill the balloons with gibberish and claim credit for it was an outrageous scam. American comics were doomed to sink into obscurity regardless because the biggest companies in the business are filled with petty, greedy morons and lazy assholes.
>>144550058>>144550067Thats funny.
>>144550118> Roy Thomas and Marv Wolfman to fill the balloons with gibberishSo they did a Stan Lee?
>>144543469He hasn't written anything worth reading since 2003.And stop obsessing over Alan Moore. I hate how this board thinks he's like "the protagonist of comics" or whatever.
>>144549825The "deconstruction" bit comes from illiterate americans who don't know what that is. Watchmen is superheroes played straight. The thing is that superheroes, like baseball or basketball, only make sense to americans. Watchmen is how the rest of the world sees them.
>>144550080The magic of the 60s was lost because of corporate greed and strongarming. Creators like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko left Marvel over this shit (and why Kirby left DC and Marvel again in the 70s), not because Alan Moore was going to write comics in the 80s.The Brits came and made things fun and good again (along with Miller and a few others), but the big two rubbed their hands.
>>144550247He’s the wise old mentor who is always right and probably would’ve saved the day himself if he wasn’t so old
>>144550284That's nonsense.
>>144546076that should've been obvious when Gaiman wrote those mercenary comics for Marvel because he desperately wanted to get his hands on the Miracleman rights
>>144550247Providence was good
>>144550247Providence from 2017 was good. The Nemo Trilogy before that was good.Promethea and Tom Strong from ABC ran up to 2006, and those were good.
>>144550273>The thing is that superheroes, like baseball or basketball, only make sense to americans.Bullshit.
>>144550273but the Japanese love baseball
>>144543823>>144543720>Alan Moore left comics five years ago when his last comic book was published>insufferable /co/mblr faggot lies through his rotten teeth and says that a paperback book is a comic bookClassy as always.
>>144550080Agree to disagree, then. 80s and 90s comics are way more fun to me than 60s and 70s comics.
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>>144550247Unfortunately, he's the GOAT.If there were many better writers, I'd talk about them more.
>>144543469That's cool. Can he now also retire from complaining about comic books as well?
>>144551782I want you to tell me the last time he complained about comics, which comic he was complaining about, and the exact date it was reported
>>144551782He will as soon as you stop complaining about him complaining about comics.
>>144551782That's up to the people that interview him. They're the ones that bring it up all the time.
