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Terrific, Eroom -- I'm checking this out now!! Good idea on making this a separate thread, so more people will be sure to see it.
Before I even got to the Promethea stuff, I'm first devouring the great Onion interview with Alan Moore, which I guess I missed when it first came out. The more interviews I read with Moore, the more I'm impressed with how damn FUNNY he is!!!
>> O: When you experiment with this sort of thing, is it a scientific experiment? Are you interested in the effect, or are you doing it for your own satisfaction, to see if it can be done?
AM: A bit of both. I like to show off, even if it's only going to be to, in some cases, eight other comics writers who are going to realize what I've done. I like to show my might and power, so that they may grovel before me.
>> I've got the whole of Big Numbers plotted. I'd got this enormous A1 sheet of paper the size of a tablecloth that had been divided into 40 rows down the side, and 12 columns along the top... And then, in this grid in tiny, incomprehensibly small biro writing which looks like the work of a mental patient, and which gives you a migraine just to look at it, there is what happens to each of the 40 characters in every one of the 12 issues.
>> [on BIG NUMBERS] Probably not gonna happen. After you've had two separate artists run screaming into the night, you start to think, "Is it me?"
The ones I've listed above are hardly Moore at his funniest, but he just seems so cool and so much fun, I want to hang out with him. Me and 5,000,000 other comics fans.  And there are several bits in the Moore stuff in Jess Nevin's anotated LEAGUE book that crack me the hell up too. |
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