Of course Moore had to be a contrarian fuck rather than keep it to the end of the Victorian era/Edwardian period for the most part and maybe go as far as Big Brother in an Epilogue volume. This series may have been a classic had they actually stuck to what made it charming and enticing in the first place, but no. We needed bullshit upon bullshit for him to vent his seethe towards James Bond and Harry Potter. What a waste.
I read it all again last year. I'd forgotten how stupid it got after the first couple of books, which is never a god sign. But hey ho that's just the way it is with Moore. He can't keep a good thing going for all the nachos in Arizona.
>>151696618There's no shortage of fun stuff they could have done. Have Tarzan, bring in Dorian Grey, have Victor Frankenstein. Plenty of adventures to be had keeping within the general period and formula that made vol 1 and 2 enjoyable to read.
>>151696688>oh in vol whatever is some macguffin and it's hidden away in the ruins of Wuthering Heights and Mina and John Watson as a new member encounter the spirit of HeathcliffShit like that, it sounds dumb to write down but that's what the series initially charming, shit like Vol 1 all being a big pissing contest between Moriarty and Fu Manchu (the latter of which survived vol 1 entirely and was a serious threat and villain candidate)
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>>151696560Harry Potter and James Bond? Nigga grow up.
>>151696890>Nigga grow up.Tell that to Moore retard. He used the latter volumes as a vehicles to shit over Harry Potter and James Bond rather than telling decent fun stories.
>>151697432Exactly my point, you're crying because he shit all over your precious slop.
Why is Captain Nemo brownmaxxing with a turban in all modern media when one of the points with his character is that he maintained an ambiguous appearence and dress so the protagonists couldn't figure out whether he was southern european, persian or north indian?
The League comics after the second are some of the worst comics I've ever read.
Why does Moore have such a boner for the gollywog?
>>151697739He's a man of a certain age.
>>151697718I've read worse shit recommended by /co/.
>>151697439Honestly, if he did properly read Harry Potter, he would have had far more material to work with than "Potter's a washed up junkie anti-christ who was also a school shooter". Same with James Bond. Really, there are a lot of things that Moore just refused to engage or even acknowledge in favor of retarded shit like trying to redeem the fucking Golliwog of all things or his pet character Orlando. No Once and Future King, no Borrowers, no Discworld, no Captain Pugwash, no Beano, no Dr. Who, no Blackadder, nothing even vaguely modern.To me, that's the real disappointing part. He can and should have shat on Harry Potter and James Bond HARDER if he was going to bother including them at all. He can and should have gone all in on showing off british superhero antics and how their time conflicts with what the league wants/is trying to achieve if he was just going to shit on cape comics yet again in the end. He can and should have just gone all in on the weird scifi apocalypse the world was plunged into if he was going to reference 2000 AD that hard. Instead, he just...gave up. Just one massive waste of time after such a solid premise from the first two volumes.
My friend had these back in the day and I remember reading the one that came with 3D glasses and I thought it was pretty cool. Wish more comics came with glasses
>>151696618>I'd forgotten how stupid it got after the first couple of books, which is never a god signYeah, bad things being bad are a not god sign.
The later volumes have their moments.
>>151697826>BeanoOne of his other works does have a strong Beano connection.The Show has a character from Beano in it but only if you look closely.
>>151697718I'm going to read it all soon. Can't be that bad.>>151697818I've definitely read some real stinkers that this board was parading as amazing.>>151697826There are already thousands of references, from what I've seen. I think one of the covers was a Beano-styled comic.
>>151699791Difference between visual reference and actually doing something with said reference. Lara Croft and Astro Boy show up at the very last second, but they don't fucking do anything with that page space.
>>151699842You should make your own and include all the things you like.
>>151699939Already am, my art skills are just too shit to use for a comic and I find AI too finicky and frustrating to deal with. I still think Moore should have either gotten a writer who knew more modern fiction to help with his scripts to better flesh out the stories for the modern iteration of the League or kept his stories to the era of fiction that he actually had passion for, rather than phoning it in. This is disappointment, not anger.
>>151697490He can't be white passing that's racist.
>>151696688I thought Tarzan was 1910s or '20s.
>>151696560>"Fuck pop culture, ya wankahs! Public domain is superior, wot!"Typical Moore.
>>151697490Sikh Nemo is really cool. He also just looks like an Indian Moore.
>>151699791First one is greatSecond one has issues but is greatBlack Dossier is okayCentury was weakNemo was decentTempest I read at a time when I looked at pop culture and finally understood why Moore checked out
>>151696560>Of course Moore had to be a contrarian fuckStopped reading there.
>>151700260>Second one has issuesSix issues.
>>151697490Because Moores takes are the "heckin realirino way it wazz", geddit?
>>151696560I saw someone point out its kind of bs Moore would have all these Western literary characters here but the one time we see someone from outside that, Sun Wukong, he's literally taxidermied and his tales are just dismissed as myth Basically that even if it's commentary on British imperialism it falls flat since it comes across as Moore himself being part of that bias
>>151697490>when one of the points with his character is that he maintained an ambiguous appearence and dress so the protagonists couldn't figure out whether he was southern european, persian or north indianThat sounds something like what an actual book reader might say. This is the guy who decided because Fletcher Hanks was an alcoholic, Stardust had to be one too because otherwise there'd be no way to take him down. Moore desperately needed to be told he could only write his own properties for, say, twenty years, and only after that get to play in other peoples' sandboxes again even including those in public domain. It would have taught him a modicum of respect he only learned far too late when he was indulged to do this kind of stuff. His pisstake on Harry Potter comes across as someone who never read more than the first book, without acknowledging the actual howlers in Rowling's story by the time he wrote this.Moore's one of the finer structuralists in terms of storytelling, but he uses that to cover up being a fucking dilettante in terms of media literacy. That's more important than Watchmen or the never-used Twilight pitch.
>>151697826>no DiscworldHe would have been murdered by fans for touching Pratchett with anything less than drooling adulation and he knew it.
>>151700089>or kept his stories to the era of fiction that he actually had passion forHe has a mental block preventing being cynical about the things he grew up loving, like MAD Magazine or silver age Superman. They're sacrosanct so not surprisingly the things he shits all over weren't parts of his childhood that he believes other people were suckers for caring about. The problem with that is he's happy to do it from a position of illiteracy (like Goscinny being angry with anime) whereas most of us here piss all over things after experiencing enough of them to have actual reasons. Editors never called him out on this so he assumed it was okay for decades. Fucking Watchmen was a testament to "given the assignment to introduce the Charlton acquisitions to DC, he didn't read the fucking books before writing the characters" for which Len Wein should have blacklisted him instead of patting Moore on the head and saying "it's okay poor dear, we'll rename them"
Was there ever an in-universe explanation in "V for Vendetta" how Evey impersonated "V" at the end and everyone assumed it was the original guy when suddenly V has a woman's voice and stature, or was Moore intentionally abusing that 1940s comic book trope where because the reader can't hear voices, anyone in a mask perfectly imitates someone else?
