So
Alan Moore said some more shit.
Well, mostly he said the same shit again.
I had to quit reading halfway through the thing. I'm not sure how the interviewer kept mumbling those questions with Moore's cock so far down his throat, and the site design is really and truly awful. (Would you like the text to be more than 14 pixels high? Well, fucking tough; if you zoom the text the paragraphs start rendering on top of each other.)
Here's the part where I finally had to quit:
[Kurt Amacker]: Like I said, I think I have different feelings about contemporary comics to some extent. I still read Wolverine and that kind of thing. I mean I agree, though, that nothing has ever topped Watchmen. I mean Maus is great, but not as good, and the same for The Dark Knight Returns. Those are the seminal works that have helped elevate the industry.
Look, if you don't think Maus is as good as Watchmen, okay, that's a matter of opinion. But really, the best fucking defense of contemporary comics you can offer is "I still read Wolverine"?
Dude.
Paying for It, The Love Bunglers, Congress of the Animals, Wilson. Those were published within THE PAST TWO YEARS. Would you like me to go back farther?
I mean, as dickish as Moore is with his blanket dismissal of everyone who works for DC or Marvel, he has made it clear in previous interviews that when he rants about "comics" and how nobody has any original ideas, he's ONLY talking about DC and Marvel, not the entire medium.
If the interviewer had left it at Wolverine and DKR, then he could make that same claim -- but he mentioned Maus directly, so he is therefore clearly referring to THE ENTIRE MEDIUM OF COMICS (at least, the American branch of same). And again, yeah dude, there are more than two books in the past 25 years that have been in the same ballpark as Watchmen.
Anyhow, the subsequent comments threads have been every bit as predictable and nauseating as the article itself.
I like Alan Moore. I actually tend to agree with him on most of what he's saying. I also think he takes the hyperbole too far, overinflates himself, and insults some very talented people working on very good books. And frankly I'm just about sick of hearing it and wish he'd stop talking about fucking Watchmen and just focus on his CURRENT work.
For a long time I thought HE was sick of talking about it and would RATHER just focus on his current work, but at this point I no longer believe that to be the case. If he didn't want to keep talking about Watchmen, he would have stopped by now.
And I just want to punch the interviewer in the mouth.
If he bites down, well, Moore should have thought of that earlier. And hey, maybe it'll give him an idea for a sequel to Neonomicon.