Alan Moore is Making a Videogame (Maybe)

Truly-A-Lie

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If I understood that right, it'll be like: Chapter One: Graphic Novel, Chapter Two: Video Game, Chapter Three: Short Film etc. taking parts of the story that would be better in a different medium and actually making it accordingly, and we'll end up with one mega-story at the end.
If that's true, I'm going to need money and a place to preorder it from.
 

Ian Caronia

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Dr. wonderful said:
Let me say this. Alan moore is batshit insane and I really don't wanna fuck with him.

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Just let him do what he wants until I think of a way to send him back from which he came (I'm pretty sure that's outworld.)

OT: Micheal Moore was good. WAS. But people get tired of political views and things. Aside from V for Vendetta and Watchmen I've never heard much anything else he's done.
EDIT: Snipped the shit out of this post due to errors on my part. I don't hate Moore. I did because of Killing Joke, but I guess DC is at fault there so I was wrong.
I do think he's overrated.
 

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ThrobbingEgo said:
Jumwa said:
How is this a shift in his stance on adaptations?
Who said anything about adaptation?

An artist wants to try a different medium out. Why not?
The author of the original news post said it:

This is a pretty abrupt shift from Moore's stance on adaptations...
And no, it's NOT an adaptation of an existing work by all accounts.

That was my entire point.
 

standokan

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I've just read Watchmen and no matter how stark raving mad Moore may be, he knows what he's doing so let him be.
 

Dr. wonderful

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Ian Caronia said:
Dr. wonderful said:
Let me say this. Alan moore is batshit insane and I really don't wanna fuck with him.

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Just let him do what he wants until I think of a way to send him back from which he came (I'm pretty sure that's outworld.)

OT: Micheal Moore was good. WAS. But people get tired of political views and things. Aside from V for Vendetta and Watchmen I've never heard anything else he's done.

...Oh wait! He did The Killing Joke, right? Yeah, you know, the one where
BATGIRL IS SHOT and PARALYZED FROM THE WASTE DOWN, JOKER TAKES NAKED PHOTOS OF HER AS SHE BLEEDS OUT AND TRIES TO MIND-BREAK GORDON WITH THEM?
Yeah! How fun was that comic, huh? And so necessary too. So fucking necessary to do that to a beloved character. Two beloved characters.

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One) He thinks it sucks. 2) It was not meant to be canon. 3) DC wanted to make it Canon and so they did. Right after that, they killed Jason Todd, which refrences the Killing Joke in the Death in the family arc issue 1(EVERYONE is looking for the joker from the police to the teen titans all the way up to JLA) and 3 (Babs appears at jason funeral with her father.)
 

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j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
It's funny, you go to great lengths to slag off The Killing Joke, whereas elsewhere in the world it's actually seen as one of the best Batman comics. Both Tim Burton and Chris Nolan claimed it as an influence in their respective Batman films (hell, Heath Ledger's Joker is the Joker from TKJ), it's widely regarded as being the defining Joker story in the DC canon, and it's a Trope Namer on TV Tropes. The scenes you're talking about, helped re-establish the Joker not as some prankish camp goofster, but as a seriously unstable, sociopathic psycho. Because people who dress up as clowns and go round killing people are psychos. If you didn't expect that in a "fun" comic, then I think that says more about your expectations of the medium than the quality of the story itself.
Firstly, I went back and spoiler tagged it. I thought since it's such a well known piece that everyone already knew about what I was talking about, like the secret of Citizen Kane's Rosebud. Took care of that.
Secondly, I don't care what Tim Burton or Nolan think. Especially Nolan...and Burton nowadays.
And no. Just don't. There are numerous ways to re-establish the Joker as a seriously unstable sociopathic psycho. There is no excuse for- WAIT, NEVERMIND. Apparently it wasn't meant to be canon. That's DC's fault, not Alan Moore's.
Oh, and since I'm still on the subject, here's what Alan Moore thinks of it:
"Yeah, it was done while I was doing Watchmen, or just after or something, I'm not sure which but it was too close to Watchmen. I mean, Brian [Bolland] did a wonderful job on the art but I don't think it's a very good book. It's not saying anything very interesting."
[Link: http://www.blather.net/articles/amoore/brought-to-light1.html ]

So, to sum up, while so many people think it's amazing, even the author thinks it's boring because "it doesn't make a statement".
By the way, that mentality of his is exactly why people think he's overrated.

ALSO TURNS OUT IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE CANON APPARENTLY. So that's DC's fault not Alan Moore's. I take back all my hate on Alan Moore. I think he's overrated, but I don't hate him.

The project you're talking about is Lost Girls, and once again you seem to have completely missed the point. With Lost Girls, Moore wanted to write a story that shows that pornography is an art-form like anything else, not just fap material. He never equates pussy pounding and romantic sex as being the same, and if you'd actually read the book, you'd have realised that. Indeed, it was pre-conceptions of sex and porn exactly like yours that inspired him to write Lost Girls in the first place.
Two things. One, I was wrong about him comparing love scenes to porn. He says pornogrophy is the same as erotica, but less pretentious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5Svr3iQn8
Around the five minute mark if you want the reference. So yeah, I admit I was wrong.

But I hope you realize the mentality at work here again that he seems to feel like he needs to make a point and that he again needs to go "against the grain" by have young girls partaking in these acts. Now, I'm no prude, and when it comes to things like loli manga I can let people fap and diddle to whatever they want. I don't mind. Think it's gross, personally, but hey I don't care.
_But tell me, what is the point he's trying to make with young girls fucking? Is there a good excuse? If it was just porn then it's just porn. But when you try to say you're doing it to make a point, you need a good reason, and there is none. Just like there's no reason to actually make the characters those from classic fairy tale literature (Wendy, Alice and whoever).

And here we get to the most ridiculous part of your post. The guy is a comic-book writer. He identifies himself as such. He has not done a single thing to deserve your 'HATE'. If you don't like his work, he would be the first to suggest you go read something else, and avoid posting in forum threads that have his name in the title. I find it slightly ridiculous that you would expend so much energy waving your fingers, and indeed burning the hypothetical works of, a writer who has done more to expand his medium than any other, as opposed to a writer who writes asinine, mindless twaddle like Stephanie Meyer or Dan Brown.
Yeah I obviously went overboard for a joke that I should've separated from my statement of hatred. Also, no more hate, snipped the original and I'm done editing my failures with these posts. Fuck me did I confuse my point to no end. @_@

And last I checked a thread was meant to hold everything from love to hate on it's topic. I don't post in Alan Moore threads often.
 

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Dr. wonderful said:
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One) He thinks it sucks. 2) It was not meant to be canon. 3) DC wanted to make it Canon and so they did. Right after that, they killed Jason Todd, which refrences the Killing Joke in the Death in the family arc issue 1(EVERYONE is looking for the joker from the police to the teen titans all the way up to JLA) and 3 (Babs appears at jason funeral with her father.)
Where the hell were you when I was typing, damn it?! XD

OKAY I take back the hate. I thought he was responsible for it all, but if what you say is right then Alan Moore is NOT to blame for it being canon, it's DC.
...Fuck DC (nowadays, as well as Marvel for other things...).
 

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Jumwa said:
ThrobbingEgo said:
Jumwa said:
How is this a shift in his stance on adaptations?
Who said anything about adaptation?

An artist wants to try a different medium out. Why not?
The author of the original news post said it:

This is a pretty abrupt shift from Moore's stance on adaptations...
And no, it's NOT an adaptation of an existing work by all accounts.

That was my entire point.
I think meant I to reply to an earlier post. Also, I may or may not have been intoxicated when I posted that.

We are in agreement... even if I didn't realize it at the time.