4/11/2023 0 Comments Watchme explained![]() ![]() He was an anti-Norman terrorist, a kind of Fenland bin Laden, who lived out in the marshes. He was a figure just as big as King Arthur or Robin Hood in English mythology, with the exception that, of those three characters, Hereward actually existed. As far as I understand it, Northamptonshire was the point of origin for Hereward the Wake, who is a figure that I grew up reading about. Northampton has always been a hotbed of trouble. What has kept you in Northampton for most of your life? After failing to maintain ownership of the characters and stories he created for mainstream comics publishers (predominantly DC) he’s disowned much of his most beloved material. It’s no wonder, then, that Moore has been a tireless advocate for creators’ rights. Not only has Moore had nothing to do with these adaptations-he famously hasn’t watched any of them. The 2001 film of From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, was especially derided, but Moore purists would argue all adaptations of his work-including the critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning Watchmen limited series from HBO, which diverges rather boldly from its source material-are at best reductive misinterpretations and at worst offensively awful. Long before superhero stories became the bread and butter of Hollywood, studio executives were exploiting Moore’s writing. Moore will likely always be best remembered for these works, but he has since abandoned comics. ![]() Lovecraft’s horror fiction was set, was not altogether fictional. Over the following years, he created some of the most enduring works to ever grace the comics form: Miracleman, which took an obscure British knock-off of DC’s Captain Marvel from the 1950s, and transposed him, convincingly, onto Thatcher’s England Watchmen, a nightmarish parable that imagines how a group of masked vigilantes would actually function in the real world (not very well, it turns out) V for Vendetta, about London after a nuclear war has plunged the government into outright fascism, and the anarchist revolution that emerges as a result (a series that, among other things, popularized the Guy Fawkes mask as a contemporary symbol of dissent) From Hell, a meticulously researched account of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders and the late-period masterpieces Neonomicon and Providence, which posit that the Cthulhu Mythos, the universe in which H.P. When Moore made his debut in the American comics industry in the early ’80s, taking over the little-read Swamp Thing for DC Comics, he instantly made the medium more literary and expressive, injecting it with postmodern techniques that offered a self-awareness and seriousness that previously didn’t exist in the realm of superheroes. “Whereby,” Moore said, “he was convinced that he was capable of speaking to a range of entities that he had to describe as angels, because describing them as anything else would have probably got him burned.” Behind the couch he was sitting on were reproductions of the Enochian Tables, texts from a 16th century form of magic founded by the occultist John Dee. He was dressed, both times, in a red sweater, and occasionally dragged on an enormous rolled cigarette that smoked up the screen. ![]() “No offense, but I am unused to publicizing my own work,” he told me from his home in Northampton, in England’s East Midlands, during one of two Zoom interviews in September, around the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s death. Alan Moore, who is perhaps the greatest comic book writer to ever live, does not give many interviews. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |