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SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2008 (4:57 PM)

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Moore Watchmen.

(I'm feeling amused)

Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn,
Dirty Harry, "Make my day,"
Terminator, hit the north,
Alan Moore knows the score,
Riffs? Yeah! Can U dig it?
- Pop Will Eat Itself, 'Can U Dig it?'

As a little update to my post on the Watchmen film, there's a fascinating interview with creator Alan Moore on the Entertainment Weekly website today. Moore, famously, has probably been fucked over by Hollywood more than anyone else in the comics industry. Not screwed financially (he rejects royalties from adaptations of his work) but there's yet to be a movie based on one of his comics that captures his elegant, intertextual and just plain smart prose. Incidentally, I met him once back in Oxford. This was over twenty years ago when he'd just finished doing Marvelman and V for Vendetta for the awesome british anthology magazine Warrior. I'd only just started getting into US comics (if you were a teen in England at the time, comics pretty much started and ended with 2000AD and maybe Warrior, but only if you were a real geek) and Moore wasn't yet the superstar he became. I recall there weren't really many people who came to the signing, at my friend Alison's comic shop Rainbow's End ("Don't look for it, it's not there anymore!") so I got to have quite a chat with the man. It was one of the most thrilling afternoons of my formative, teenage years!
In the interview he talks about his disinterest in the Watchmen film, his feelings on Hollywood comic book movies and his love of The Wire and South Park - there's even a mention of Anonymous:

I thought the way that South Park handled that bit with the Scientologists was wonderful. I was also quite heartened the other day when watching the news to see that there were demonstrations outside the Scientology headquarters over here, and that they suddenly flashed to a clip showing all these demonstrators wearing V for Vendetta [Guy Fawkes] masks. That pleased me. That gave me a warm little glow.

Interview is here.

And, something that's sure to rankle and alientate Moore just a little bit more (so to speak) - Watchmen animated! Chapter One can be found, for free - providing you have iTunes - right here!

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