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Promethea # 28

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06:46 / 16.12.03

hey there jack denfeld

yes , i do appreciate that grant likes my work. so that is not my arguement. i just have trouble with some of his more trashy statements about alan. alan is a dear friend and i don't enjoy hearing someone trash any of my friends. so i just felt compelled to say something about it.

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rise and reverberate

11:56 / 16.12.03

I think Grant just wants some attention from his hero. And some acknowledgement that influence runs two ways.

Mind you, Grant did also say he hadn't read fiction in the last 20 years, which is patent bullshit, given that he's recomended in that time Steve Aylett, David Conway and Doug Rushkoff. Via timewarp?

Writers seem a bit funny about these sort of things.

19:27 / 21.12.03

Hello Everybody
Of interest to readers of promethea is a contribution alan moore made to the K Foundations book 'K Foundation Burn A Million Quid' He talks about his ideas of apocalypse and so on.

Love Richard.

yawn - thing's buddy

15:55 / 26.12.03

let's be casual.

Alan Moore from now on is just:

'Alan'

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You know, I really like Alan's Watchmen, don't you?

What about Alan's time twisters? they were good.

Yeah. Alan's a genius.

01:02 / 27.02.05

I've been going through the series, just finished this issue, which was amazing, and I too was struck by the similarities with The Invisibles. I don't think it's stealing, it's just a coincidental similarity.

Anyway, JHW, if you're still reading, did you ever talk to Grant about Promethea, in the process of working on Seven Soldiers, and find out more about his opinion of the book, the sort of thing that might explain his comments in those interviews referneced above. And, going through the whole series, I've been consistently awed by the art. It's not just great stuff, it completely reinvents the storytelling possibilities of the medium. Bravo.

11:51 / 08.05.06

And look, now JHW3 and Morrison are friends! Time flies.

07:38 / 09.05.06

Interesting reading, considering that this thread is quite a few years old.

Both Promethea and The Invisibles had a profound effect on me, and when reading them I felt that Moore and Morrison were covering similar ground given their influences
(reading the same authors, taking the same drugs, communing with the same or similar entities).

When dealing with artistic creations, I find it's a good idea to let the work speak for itself and to not pay much attention to the creator(s). Not that the creator's say means nothing, but an artist is a human being, capable of egotism, petty jealousy and all the other little shortcomings that make a person human. It can detract from the artwork itself.

Of course coins have two sides, and it can work the other way as well. I've always been a fan of JHW3's artwork, and to see his well-thought-out posts here increases my admiration for him as a person.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that comparing Moore and Morrison is like arguing about whether Coke is better than Pepsi. They're pretty similar and both very talented, but arguments about who's better really boil down to things like personal taste, and accusations of plagiarism and such smack of what I'll call "creator brand loyalty" (and anyone who's read either Moore or Morrison should know better than to fall victim to the brand loyalty mentality).

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