Alan Moore was already the grumpy old man of the comics industry , but whatever shit the acclaimed writer had remaining , he has officially lost . Here ’s how his latest tirade begins : “ ” I detest superheroes . I think they ’re abhorrence . ” It goes downhill from there .
Moore was let the cat out of the bag to The Guardian when he went on his latest fustian about the industry he aid make ( and helped make him ) so sucsessful . After stating that he had n’t read a superhero comic since he create Watchmen — which is kind of crackers when you remember how many superhero comics he drop a line after he create Watchmen , including Batman : The Killing Joke , Tom Strong , Promethea , and many many others — Moore continued :
They [ superheroes ] do n’t imply what they used to mean . They were in the beginning in the work force of writer who would actively expand the imagination of their nine - to-13 - year - honest-to-god audience . That was totally what they were mean to do and they were doing it splendidly .
These day , superhero comics think the interview is for certain not nine to 13 , it ’s nothing to do with them . It ’s an audience mostly of 30- , 40- , 50- , 60 - year erstwhile men , unremarkably men . Someone fare up with the term graphic novel . These readers latch on to it ; they were simply concerned in a way that could corroborate their continued love of Green Lantern or Spider - Man without appear in some way emotionally subnormal .
This is a significant rump of the superhero - addicted , mainstream - addicted audience . I do n’t think the superhero stands for anything right . I think it ’s a rather alarming signaling if we ’ve start audiences of adult pass to see the Avengers picture show and delighting in concepts and characters imply to hold the 12 - year - old boys of the 1950s .
While I would n’t disagree that the target audience for superhero cartoon strip has aged up importantly , I also do n’t think Moore wrote Watchmen for 9 - to-13 - year - old male child either . Anyways , it ’s not precisely news show how fussy and acid Moore has gotten , but it is pitiful how Moore has gone from hate DC to hating the whole comedian diligence to basically hating all of us for descend to read them in the first position .
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