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Well both are VERY conspicuously absent from each other's comix chat.
Which is weird considering they're both old 2000AD heads, they're both magicians, share similar cosmologies and are the number 1 players in their chosen industry.
I think Morrison slagged Moore off many moons ago, but someone else here could probably tell you more. Alan isn't exactly the most forgiving type.
There's also a fundamental philosophical rift there as well (inspite of and quite possibly accentuated by the aforementioned similarities): Morrison's very left hand path, chaotic, pop....a real neophile; whereas Moore's right hand path-y, structured, ye olde man of the tomes....not exactly neophobic, but not exactly big on the "self disintegrating pop overdrive" thing that fuels Morrisons work (which sometimes feels kinda slight and ephemeral in contrast with Moore's weighty, monolithic prose).
Moore's a magus in the old style, John Dee-ish way, Morrison's the 70s me-quest put through a time accelerator.
Love them both - they both fulfill different runceneeds.
But, personally, I'm sick of listening to Morrison making snide references to "writers who're into that whole retro thing" and Moore's refusal to give Morrison any acknowledgement whatsoever, even when he's called upoun to list the writer's he finds most interesting/important in comics (when most of those he does check absolutely suck and don't have half the imagination or passion Grant has).
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