Alan Moore Culture Show pt3

[BenNCM]

HashToker, thanks for these vids but you're really pissing people off by ruining the flow when you had more than enough time to put all 5 parts in one vid.

[foolsroad71]

Hash Toker - can you not string all these interviews together???

Great upload - but annoyingly small segments.

Thanks non the less ;)

[natmanprime]

I think alan moore is missing the point on batman.

Of course most people won't react that way to seeing their parents gunned down. If they did, there would be batmen everywhere. The point IS that it's unusual. That's why there's only one batman in the comics. It IS a weird thing to do. That's the IDEA.

People act weird and crazy when these things happen to them. If you are a rich enough to indulge in your fantasy then you DO it.

If you are not so rich, then YES, you don't do it.

[ZombieDragQueen]

@natmanprime

I think maybe a lot of them would grow up to become cops and attorneys or fight maffia syndicates via cyberterrorism. The point is that most people with that kind of traumas have a clearly defined idea of what is good and evil. That is what Moore tried to do in Killing Joke, he showed how easy it is to transgress the lines between good (sane) and evil (insane) - from Joker's perspective at least. Arkham Asylum graphic novel took it several steps further.

[natmanprime]

@ZombieDragQueen yes indeed, Alan Moore made the argument very clear about 'crossing the line' in Killing Joke.

Being a cop would mean less freedom to do what you want to get done, as I said before he has the money! So he doesn't need to go that route.

He also wanted to take responsibility on himself, not share it, because morality rests on the notion of personal responsibility, and to generate fear, outlandishness.

Batman had a computer btw!

I think Arkham Asylum is more like a work of art.

[JDA315]

it's like he's just head and arms, so alan moore his work is ridiculous(ly good)

[TheCokesnorter]

@JDA315 He is just head and arms. The head is for making up stories and the arms are for writing them down! xD

[Fpiet]

Not as acclaimed as the Killing Joke, no.

But yeah, you're kind of right. It's probably just my personal tastes but I love the hell out of some of his stories which feature Batman.

There's a really awesome Clayface story he did and even though it's more a Superman story, there's also "For the Man who has everything"

[ScarranHalfBreed]

It really breaks up the flow having to keep clicking every one and a half minutes. Can't we have the entire thing on one vid?

[daddyphatsack]

Its weird ya know. Alan Moore talks about how imagination and fantasy should be key aspects in our lives...but then he slams bbatman. I find Batman to be one of the greatest fictional characters ever created.

[Fpiet]

He isn't slamming Batman. He's just looking at it from a logical, realistic point of view. Hell, Alan Moore wrote several of the greatest batman stories.

[Rodimus78]

Thank you Fpiet for clearing things up.

[thegtafanboy]

for real, batman just got owned, but then rorschach origin isn't that logical either

[togio100]

I think the Watchmen's origins are supposed to be absurd

Do you think if a man's is torn to pieces on the subatomic level by radioactive energy that he'll become a glowing, blue super being?

[Gevzh]

@Fpiet Likely his are the best because of the insights he makes here!

[Atemporal]

Awesome guy.

[kingflame81]

He's got a point with someone watching their parents being killed in front of them, not exactly turing out to be Batman

[MGHZINC]

He also has a point on all of his rings

[TakumProti]

Yeah, that's true, but Batman is Batman because he actively chosed to be. I mean we all understand why he fights crime as a vigilante, but I don't think he does it as an outlet for psychological trauma, he does it as a man who has consciously decided to take matters into his own hands.

[OwzyB]

His superpower is his will