I mean, I’m not staying otherwise, but what exactly has he done to make him bonkers? He looks crazy, sure, REALLY FUCKING CRAZY, and I know he just despises the comics industry.
Why do people think Alan Moore is crazy?
Easton Nelson
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Ethan Cook
He's got radical political views and that polarizes the people who like him/ don't like him. He's a good writer, but he's not judged for that as much on Yas Forums.
Nathan Ross
He became a magician when he turned 40 and has his own cave. Also, he made Lost Girls.
Jacob Price
because he didn't suck corporate capeshit cock and beg Hollywood for attention like Morrison, Johns and Bendis
Bentley Martinez
Honestly I think a fair amount of it is just people upset that he talks about how he hates Rorschach fans and shit like that. People don’t like that he disrespects the fan’s opinions and that he’s a curmudgeon about the industry, and they take that combined with his whole wizard thing and cast him as some strange Alistair Crowley figure that only emerges from a Northampton hillside every third full moon to drink the blood of goats, when in reality he’s a relatively well-humored guy with pretty reasonable opinions on the comics industry.
Blake Long
I don't think he's crazy. I think he's a bitter holier-than-thou dirty-old-man who's only talent is regurgitating tired ideas in a somewhat clever way.
The first two League of Extraordinary Gentlemen books are mildly entertaining. The Black Dossier is incomprehensible gibberish.
Watchmen is about 1/3rd as deep as it thinks it is, but I'd probably like it better if it wasn't treated like holy writ.
He's a man who's had people telling him how smart he is for too goddamn long, and it's rotted his brain.
Jacob Wilson
How was deconstructing superheroes tired by the time he was doing it?
David Cruz
>hates Rorschach fans
I would actually be fine with him hating Rorschach fans if his reasons didn't seem so disingenuous. It seems like he's misunderstanding why the character is compelling on purpose. But I thought Rorschach was the only sympathetic character out of the main cast in Watchmen and I wanted Silk Spectre and Night Owl to fall into a meat grinder by the end, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
>his whole wizard thing
I started to read an essay of his about magic, but I don't think you can honestly try to justify and explain your interest in the mystic and occult, while in the same dismissing characterizing YHWH as a "Volcano God with a temper problem".
It reeks of egoism. "My spirituality is deeper and more sincere than yours!"
Perhaps Exodus 22:18 "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" offends him personally.
Mason Clark
It's because he's bitter. It makes all the freaky druid shit he does seem like a bunch of double hogwash, since it doesn't seem to bring him any peace of mind about old comic book business.
People think Grant Morrison is crazy too, but they don't hold it against him because he doesn't seem too chuffed about anything.
Caleb Allen
Oh I'm not talking about that aspect. More that his ideas about politics, psychology, society, evolution, determinism etc. all seemed very boilerplate and shallow to me.
To be honest, I would have to care a great deal more about superheros to find their deconstruction at all interesting, so I was much more interested in the political and social ideas of Watchmen.