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10 times Alan Moore made the world better by complaining about pop culture

By Ashley Hurst

Acclaimed English comic book writer Alan Moore, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his latest work. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2010 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Acclaimed English comic book writer Alan Moore, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his latest work. The three-week event is the world's biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2010 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) /
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Acclaimed English comic book writer Alan Moore, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his latest work. The three-week event is the world’s biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2010 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images)
Acclaimed English comic book writer Alan Moore, pictured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival where he talked about his latest work. The three-week event is the world’s biggest literary festival and is held during the annual Edinburgh Festival. The 2010 event featured talks and presentations by more than 500 authors from around the world. (Photo by Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) /

3. The comics industry and everything attached to it is “unbearable.”

There’s a recurring theme here: Moore loved what comics once were, but dislikes what they have become. Chatting to The Guardian in 2022, he dived into why he doesn’t bother writing within the medium anymore.

“I’m definitely done with comics… I haven’t written one for getting on for five years. I will always love and adore the comics medium,” he explained before going on to slam the way the industry has changed.”

"The comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable. … I said ’round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies."

Sticking with the secretly sinister nature of comic books and comic book movies, he sees the obsession with superheroes are a symptom of a potentially very dangerous condition. “Because that kind of infantilization – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.”

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4. Alan Moore didn’t like Game of Thrones

There was a point a few years back when everyone was watching Game of Thrones. It was the biggest show on the planet, picking up Emmys like they were nothing and smashing viewing records with ease.

True to form, Moore had issues with the show. Apparently, it didn’t live up to his expectations for fantasy stories. “I want to be almost lifted into a different neurology by a fantasy story. I want something that actually rewires my view of reality while I’m immersed in that book, that allows me all sorts of different possibilities that I hadn’t considered,” he said.

After watching a few episodes, he thought it felt formulaic, likening it to, “The Sopranos set in Fifth-Century Dorset.”

"That was my impression; that it was a family saga with bloody betrayals and all of the rest of it, but it was in Fifth-Century Dorset rather than in New York State or whatever."

He’s a hard man to impress. Not even arguably the best TV show ever could win him over!

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