A Comic Confessional
Can someone please explain to me what the big deal is about Alan Moore? I don't get it! Why do people act like he's the comic world's Leonardo DiVinci?
Watchmen was good...but was it all THAT good? That innovative? I mean, it dealt with a theme already seen in Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme 12 issue maxiseries. It had characters who were supposed to be the Charlton characters DC owned, like the Question and Blue Beetle and Captain Atom, but DC wouldn't let him use them...so he created homages. Was it well written? Yes. Is it some miraculous stroke of literary genius thank sprang Athena-like out of his Zeus-head? No.
I gove Moore one bit of credit. He's a hell of a researcher and synthesizer as seen with his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as well as, I've heard, Swamp Thing, and probably also From Hell and V for Vendetta. But LXG wasn't nearly as good, in my opinion, as Watchmen. And everything else of his I've been bored with. Ok, I haven't read From Hell or V for Vendetta, but I read his work on Supreme and Miracleman, which I thought were dull. So I don't have a lot of drive to go read more Moore.
What am I missing about Alan Moore?
Watchmen was good...but was it all THAT good? That innovative? I mean, it dealt with a theme already seen in Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme 12 issue maxiseries. It had characters who were supposed to be the Charlton characters DC owned, like the Question and Blue Beetle and Captain Atom, but DC wouldn't let him use them...so he created homages. Was it well written? Yes. Is it some miraculous stroke of literary genius thank sprang Athena-like out of his Zeus-head? No.
I gove Moore one bit of credit. He's a hell of a researcher and synthesizer as seen with his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, as well as, I've heard, Swamp Thing, and probably also From Hell and V for Vendetta. But LXG wasn't nearly as good, in my opinion, as Watchmen. And everything else of his I've been bored with. Ok, I haven't read From Hell or V for Vendetta, but I read his work on Supreme and Miracleman, which I thought were dull. So I don't have a lot of drive to go read more Moore.
What am I missing about Alan Moore?
posted by Bodog at 2:50 PM
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