Alan Moore has always been an insane woke activist, even before it was cool. Watchmen is an anti-capitalist diatribe for DC Comics but he blames GamerGate, ComicsGate and Donald Trump for life.
For as often as GamerGate diatribes make me sigh and roll my eyes, they far more often make me laugh. GamerGate came and went a decade ago; it's been set down and considered over and done with by most people for a long time. Yet here we are, ten years removed, and the leftoids still continue to bring it up as if it's remotely relevant now. They're just completely incapable of letting it go, and it's frankly hilarious at this point.
Moore is either baldly lying or incomprehensibly stupid. -gate has been used for decades across dozens of countries to denote scandals and criminal conspiracies. Wikipedia, that bastion of GoodThink, has a list as long as my arm...including GamerGate.
Alan Moore is to comics as Tarantino is to film IMO. He's not a great writer. Watchmen (and Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, for that matter) was such a sensation because it was "edgy" and full of leftist dogma for a "modern audience."
Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is entertaining, though I could do without the weird sex sections. He evidently is a big fan of Victorian era detective stories, science fiction, and fantasy by people such as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it is interesting to see characters from different authors coming together to work as a team. When it comes to superheroes I prefer the Planetary series by Warren Ellis to Watchmen. But I really don't give a damn what either author thinks about politics.
Among all that other stuff he's also a big fan of weird sex. I'm starting to get him and Neil Gaiman confused - writers who pastiche the oeuvre of better writers, insert some Modren sensibilities and then slather it with sexual deviancy. Voila!
I enjoyed Watchmen and I still recommend it to people. The movie was decent. But the best part of Watchmen was the extra stuff at the end of every issue. The world building crunch combined with a fantastic character like Rorshach won me over.
Rorschach is still your most popular Watchman character, Mr Moore.
What you think doesn't matter.
Go eat a bug.
I remember reading watchmen as a teen and didn’t think it was good. After that I avoided his work. I knew it was overrated even then
For as often as GamerGate diatribes make me sigh and roll my eyes, they far more often make me laugh. GamerGate came and went a decade ago; it's been set down and considered over and done with by most people for a long time. Yet here we are, ten years removed, and the leftoids still continue to bring it up as if it's remotely relevant now. They're just completely incapable of letting it go, and it's frankly hilarious at this point.
Moore is either baldly lying or incomprehensibly stupid. -gate has been used for decades across dozens of countries to denote scandals and criminal conspiracies. Wikipedia, that bastion of GoodThink, has a list as long as my arm...including GamerGate.
Poor man was driven insane by Maggie Thatcher. Many such cases.
The fizz doesn't lie, and it's not a pretty picture for Alan Moore.
FWIW I wrote a blog post about Watchmen earlier this year: https://www.virtualpulp.net/2024/01/22/rorschach-watchmen-and-alan-moore/
Alan Moore is to comics as Tarantino is to film IMO. He's not a great writer. Watchmen (and Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, for that matter) was such a sensation because it was "edgy" and full of leftist dogma for a "modern audience."
"Anti-hero" is synonymous with "moral coward."
Good article, and Literature Devil's stuff vanishes a lot.
To be fair he did not create it that was Steve Ditko who did hte heavy lifting Moore was just kind of there, and took more credit than he deserves.
Moore took some of what Ditko created and twisted it. That's all these cultural saboteurs are capable of.
Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series is entertaining, though I could do without the weird sex sections. He evidently is a big fan of Victorian era detective stories, science fiction, and fantasy by people such as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. Rider Haggard, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it is interesting to see characters from different authors coming together to work as a team. When it comes to superheroes I prefer the Planetary series by Warren Ellis to Watchmen. But I really don't give a damn what either author thinks about politics.
Among all that other stuff he's also a big fan of weird sex. I'm starting to get him and Neil Gaiman confused - writers who pastiche the oeuvre of better writers, insert some Modren sensibilities and then slather it with sexual deviancy. Voila!
The creator always reveals himself in his art.
I enjoyed Watchmen and I still recommend it to people. The movie was decent. But the best part of Watchmen was the extra stuff at the end of every issue. The world building crunch combined with a fantastic character like Rorshach won me over.
https://youtu.be/sF8zxctevXc?si=io87dXpQCyobLDMz
A crusty old commie hack is all Moore is.