No, actually. I mean, I read ongoing mainstream Marvel titles.
I do not like Alan Moore's writing because the things he does to female characters offend me. I do not like Alan Moore's writing because I don't see "deep political and social messages" I see "someone else did this better and you're just a toolbag with your own agenda." Also, have you looked at his scripts? He is NOT a fantastic writer. He's unhinged and the fact that artists ever worked with him is the only thing that says anything about any talent that lays under all the HOLY SHIT DUDE.
The script for Watchmen is over 150 pages long. That's just fucking unnecessary. And if it had to be 150 pages long, it could have ended with something other than a vagina monster that could be genetically dissected and clearly shown not to be an alien.
His old school fans are even more annoying, because some of them actually believe the stuff that Alan Moore says nowadays, which makes them possibly insane. They can accept no criticism of Alan Moore's work or his person, which is just dumb. He's not the Jesus of comics writing.
I never talked about Jhonen Vasquez. I love him. As a person, an artist, a writer, an illustrator. And if Slave Labor Graphics, the company, was a single human being I would probably fly to San Jose and hump it's leg and get arrested for being so damn inappropriate. I am sad that the reaction to his work is primarily what has caused Jhonen Vasquez to stop creating, especially because he's probably doing amazing things in the privacy of his own home right now and we'll never get to see them.
But considering most of my point in my original post was about the history of comic sales and creators and how we got to the place where we're at now and only 134 words out of 730 were critical of Alan Moore and most of those words were actually critical of his writing, because I'm very critical of Moore's writing, I'd say, yes, you missed the point. If you enjoyed Jhonen Vasquez's works, but you also were intensely critical of them for various reasons (and there are reasons to be critical of his work, too), but then got mobbed by people who said "You can't criticize him, he's an actual GOD with snake powers! You've doomed us all!" and, from that experience, you developed a hatred for Vasquez's work, his fans, and his self, then it would be much more in line with my hate-on for Moore.
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Date: 2010-08-05 03:34 am (UTC)I do not like Alan Moore's writing because the things he does to female characters offend me. I do not like Alan Moore's writing because I don't see "deep political and social messages" I see "someone else did this better and you're just a toolbag with your own agenda." Also, have you looked at his scripts? He is NOT a fantastic writer. He's unhinged and the fact that artists ever worked with him is the only thing that says anything about any talent that lays under all the HOLY SHIT DUDE.
The script for Watchmen is over 150 pages long. That's just fucking unnecessary. And if it had to be 150 pages long, it could have ended with something other than a vagina monster that could be genetically dissected and clearly shown not to be an alien.
His old school fans are even more annoying, because some of them actually believe the stuff that Alan Moore says nowadays, which makes them possibly insane. They can accept no criticism of Alan Moore's work or his person, which is just dumb. He's not the Jesus of comics writing.
I never talked about Jhonen Vasquez. I love him. As a person, an artist, a writer, an illustrator. And if Slave Labor Graphics, the company, was a single human being I would probably fly to San Jose and hump it's leg and get arrested for being so damn inappropriate. I am sad that the reaction to his work is primarily what has caused Jhonen Vasquez to stop creating, especially because he's probably doing amazing things in the privacy of his own home right now and we'll never get to see them.
But considering most of my point in my original post was about the history of comic sales and creators and how we got to the place where we're at now and only 134 words out of 730 were critical of Alan Moore and most of those words were actually critical of his writing, because I'm very critical of Moore's writing, I'd say, yes, you missed the point. If you enjoyed Jhonen Vasquez's works, but you also were intensely critical of them for various reasons (and there are reasons to be critical of his work, too), but then got mobbed by people who said "You can't criticize him, he's an actual GOD with snake powers! You've doomed us all!" and, from that experience, you developed a hatred for Vasquez's work, his fans, and his self, then it would be much more in line with my hate-on for Moore.