Alan Moore Steve Bissette on Prisoners of Gravity

[orgorg7]

Interesting video; thank you for posting this.

At the time of this video, Bissette believed that he/they introduced

Swamp Thing being able to re-generate lost limbs.

Hopefully he has actually read Lein, and Wrightson's classic

run by now, and realized that that was not true.

[thelibrary88]

another GREAT Alan Moore intrerview......

(and cool to see Bissette)

[comicbookfanboy]

He always looked like Charlies Mason to me.

[ComatoseCA]

Is Charles Mason related to Jackie Mason?

[comicbookfanboy]

Don't think so.

[HRVDNT]

What's great about Watchmen is that it shows superheroes in private lives and with self distance. Normally in comics, they're only playing roles. But Watchmen doesn't appear to be a parody or satire of superheroes. It's more sophisticated than that.

[abmangaka]

"You Might Have Turned Into a Shambling Swamp Thing But That Might Not Be To Bad" LOL!!!

[MikeRyu]

thanks for the vid

[mistabook]

"Hamlet covered in snot"

[deathdrone82]

CHEWBACA~

[Masakione]

Best Description of Alan Moore everxD

[Elric33239]

Neil Gaiman once described him as "a hairy Yeti!" I guess that's close.

[BlackLaval]

In the letter section one of his first issues on Swamp Thing, Mr. Moore described himself (talking in third person) as someone who, when grown old, would resemble Father Christmas's evil twin.

[Jcolinsol]

"Black Jack"

[bodnotbod]

Thanks for that Brad. I love all these YouTube clips that seem to predate mass internet communication. It's great to see these old VHS bits.

[gnosis1138]

Actually my radio show, THIS WEEK IN GEEK is actually going to be Interviewing Rick Green about Prisoners of gravity and all sorts of things nerdy

The Interview is scheduled on August 22nd :)

[DWNicolo]

Prisoners of Gravity rocked!

[kidAmy]

Man, I miss prisoners of gravity. What a great show.

[AbbeyNormal]

I can't tell if his shirt says "Say Yes To Drugs" or "Say Yo To Drugs" but I like it either way. Thanks for this clip, I'm reading through Moore's run of ST right now and loving it. There's plenty of stories about tragic monsters, it's great to see a "monster" really open up into a new kind of creature as well as remaining sort of human still.

[bradchodges]

It does say "yo".

[BirsaGomorraBeach]

@AbbeyNormal It says "Say Yo! to drugs", that's a picture of Steve Albini on it, i'm quite sure it's merch for Big Black.

[23JM23]

Alan Moore's wrong - I was queuing behind SwampThing in the Post Office last week. He was buying some stamps.

[drbotanus]

Moores take on Swamp Thing was a bore. Swamp Thing used to kick ass, but thanks to Moore, all he does is sit on his ass. TALK, TALK ,TALK thats all brits do. Moores ideas wre indeed revolutionary and different. But there are some of us who think Swamp Thing wasnt broken before Alan Moore.

[jmdeleon]

Very cool. PoG was the BEST TV show ever -- for every comics fan who ever dreamed that there would be a TV show about comics, chances are it probably would have been a lot like PoG.

[jmdeleon]

Yes!! If you have more Prisoners of Gravity clips, please post them!

[bradchodges]

Check Prisoners of Gravity on google video...this whole episode and the whole Sandman episode are up.

[cha5]

I really wish Moore and Bissete hadn't had their falling out over the interview Bissete gave in

The Comics Journal and that Moore and Bissete would do something else together, Their take on Swamp Thing was one of the all time greats, I remember as a kid I first saw one of their ST comics on the shelf in a shop, I thought "Oh my god, What is this?" It changed my life forever.

[electricmadcap]

thank you