I like Alan Moore’s comics, but can we stop pretending his hot takes are anything but shit?

>He is more like Rorschach.

HAH. That's irony right there 'cause I recall him hating that particular character.

Thats not really a high bar to surpass, user.

>can we stop pretending his hot takes are anything but shit?
I thought most people around here already considered his hot takes shit?

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>He really thought Michael Foot was gonna beat Thatcher
when did he say that?

He based the whole background of V for Vendetta on his assumption Foot would beat Thatcher and thus be able to enact nuclear disarmament in the U.K., which is why britain is spared in the nuclear war that happens in v for vendetta

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta#Background

One or two old, roundtable discussions on Watchmen with Moore, Gibbons and some others.
I only found this one recently, it's hosted by Neil Gaiman, 1987

tcj.com/a-portal-to-another-dimension-alan-moore-dave-gibbons-and-neil-gaiman/

I was surprised to see Moore mentioning Squadron Supreme.

also,
>GIBBONS: What would be horrendous, and DC could legally do it, would be to have Rorschach crossing over with Batman or something like that, but I’ve got enough faith in them that I don’t think that they’d do that. I think because of the unique team they couldn’t get anybody else to take it over to do Watchmen II or anything else like that, and we’ve certainly got no plans to do Watchmen II.

Aheheh

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>>GIBBONS: What would be horrendous, and DC could legally do it, would be to have Rorschach crossing over with Batman or something like that, but I’ve got enough faith in them that I don’t think that they’d do that. I think because of the unique team they couldn’t get anybody else to take it over to do Watchmen II or anything else like that, and we’ve certainly got no plans to do Watchmen II.

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2nd one, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Steve Whitaker, Martin Skidmore, Fiona Jerome, 1988
johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/06/24/watchmen/

>FJ: Steve and I both noticed that as the comic progresses you’re getting the same kind of strong line colouring that you get in the Black Freighter story.
SW: It might just be John’s disgust with the way that DC has this separated.
FJ: Early on, you don’t get these very extreme colours next to each other.
SW: Straight lines like this, where no attempt is made for the colour to follow the shape and form.
AM: Good grief.
DG: Uhh well, that is just one of the penalties of doing something like this.
FJ: There’s not any effort to follow contour.
AM: Well, that would probably be the separator.
FJ: Shit, we thought it was some meaningful thing.

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I like some capeshit, and I hate some capeshit
There are some shit I criticize a lot
With that said, Alan Moore is a hack and a retard, and his opinions are worthless

>Alan Moore is a hack and a retard
he's neither of those things, though he can be a bit weird

I think the big problem is people keep asking him about them

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Well I could believe DC under Levitz wouldn't want to do Watchmen II or an actual Watchmen/Batman crossover. Gibbons didn't foresee DC getting taken over by people who would go for doing that.

I think they're taking the piss

This is correct

He's old man yells at cloud personified and it doesn't help that he's been part of comics for so long his sliding opinion on comics has been recorded in real time making look like a massive hypocrite

You cant deny he's a very good dialogue writer. For scripts and stories though, his range varies from great story to "I'm reading someone's nonsensical LSD trip". Even his discarded garbage bin stories are still miles better than anything nu-Marvel and nu-DC put out.

But he is correct about almost everything. Only negative is that he is a left wing anarchist and not a balanced anarchist.

did Levitz have more pride or something?

There’s some harsh truths there. I think some people feel attacked by that fact though so they lash out and dismiss it all.

His opinions should not affect you this much. That they do means you've got some form of butthurt.
I don't agree with everything he says, since I have my own informed opinions, but I feel he gets it sometimes. If you don't feel that way, fine, but don't make five separate threads with 300+ posts each every time he shits out a soundbite. It's pretty pathetic.

For all the legit mistakes that Levitz did (the mess with Moore and Millar at Wildstorm, or letting the problem with Charles Brownstein at the CBLDF continue as it did), he tried to make sure DC creators were compensated when stuff was used in movies or TV. I think that was a Jenette Kahn thing, but even after she left in 2002, Levitz continued the practice up until 2009 when he was forced out.

It's possible that he could've been asked to go try to get Moore to do Watchmen prequels and sequels too, but I think once Moore declined they just simply dropped it rather than go over his head and get another creative team.