Alan Moore Culture Show pt1

[AtticusStount]

Hashtoker, why is this broken up into so many parts? If this is some kind of an intellectual challenge then I think it is a paltry one; for instance, it does not involve noisy fans, hourglasses, balls of spikes hanging from above or even tiny reward crystals. Poor, poor, poor.

[HashToker]

@AtticusStount Im sorry, but if you are familiar with the ways of late 80's early 90's console gaming you should be familiar with the "cheats" such as pausing and pressing a random key combination, try it during this video - pause it and hold/press "Ctrl Alt Delete" over and over, what you will then see is black this is the inside of a Tubular Swivel P Trap.TA-DA! you have now seen through the eyes of a short fat Italian-American plumber whom lives in a magical kingdom travelling through pipes

[CatAtomic99]

"Dislikes giving interviews", my ass! Go ahead and type "Alan Moore" and "interview" into a browser. Go ahead. I'll wait here. :D

[lavverlylad]

What Wossy doesn't understand is that Moore could have had all that celeb shit years ago - Wossy considers a sign of true apotheosis, but it is wrong to consider being anonymous "obscene".

[Distortion0]

"If you shoot him from weird angles you can make him look spooky" lol

[cosmonaut004]

Alan Moore is indeed a real genious!

[velderia]

I want armor rings like Alan Moore's. :< They're like 10 bucks though.

[Reversification]

thats not an armor ring, its a ring statue of glichon, the god he worships

[LEboots83]

Alan Moore...I love his stories

[Hitcheroo]

Alan Moore and Aphex Twin - Does it get any better!?

[valery3libras]

@Hitcheroo i noticed too! but i don't know the name of the song. help please!

[emptyhighways]

hahaha, the british intelligentsia considering comics degraded??? Not very intelligent then if you ask me. Comics are a huge influence on the minds of many people, they are a powerful formative force of the entire culture. And the fact that they're under the radar of this lo-and-behoold-Your-Majesty "intelligentsia" perhaps only makes them ever more influential.

[cha5]

Alan has married Melenda Gebbie recently his copartner and artist on Lost Girls recently,

You can see pictures from the wedding on Neil Gaimans website.

[23JM23]

Jonathan Ross - you are forgiven.

[AllyourbasicGerrard]

i'll never forgive him for what he said about Clerks II! ;)

[Oscar301]

How prophetic your quote here came to be!!!

[rugshort]

Thanks for posting this Hash. Have you witnessed the film THE MINDSCAPE OF ALAN MOORE from Shadowsnake films?

[HashToker]

nope, ive heard of it - but thats about as far as my knowledge goes of it im afraid.

[rugshort]

I went to A Q&A of it last year with the director, I enjoyed it although I think it was unfinished, it should be available on DVD now.

[HarlotBug3]

I wonder if Alan Moore and the Aphex Twin are fans of each other's work...

[blbennett]

Alan Moore is quite simply the greatest writer the comics medium has ever seen. Perhaps one of the best writers of all time

[Lupus27]

Personally, I both agree and disagree at the same time. I feel that Neil Gaiman could easily match or surpass Alan Moore for the title of greatest comic book writer. However, it is hard to compare them as, while Gaiman's comics are incredibly well done and full of richnes and depth, Moore is much more prolific in the sense that he has written far more comics than Gaiman. Still, saying that they;re the top two works for everyone.

[SHickson06]

Alan Moore is a legend

[gulleyjimson]

This coming from an American! LOL

[sleestack]

The English love to rally around themselves and prop themselves up. Such hubris from the Brits. They truly love themselves.

[rugshort]

That's a bit of a sweeping statement isn't it?

[sleestack]

Yeah, I was in an anti British phase at the time. I love them now

[rugshort]

Anti-British or anti-English, there is a BIG difference y'know?

[TheSweeney]

The User "4everEngland" should read the graphic novel. Moore has had nothing to do with any of the Movie adaptations of his Comics (and alas all the movies have been watered down versions of the comics). Moore is not anti-brit.

[thecolin1]

The film version of 'V' is just one example of this legendary multi-faceted artist. Whatever the disgruntled nitwit above may think, unfortunately his politics and unreasoning hatred of freedom of speech cloud his ability to appreciate a grand masater of the arts living amongst us today.

[crabhat]

Sadly, the film was actually pretty good. As a Moore fan I went in expecting to be disappointed but it turned out to be the best adaptation of the man's work so far. Not perfect, you understand, but well worth a view. Evie's imprisonment is worthy of note as it was as affecting as it is in the book.

[Ashloomis]

Why is it sad that the film was good?

I thought it was a good movie, but a horrible adaptation.

[mikelly0814]

Yeah...that's the thing about movie adaptations of books- you have to take them as movies in their own right.

[nickfurze]

"good movie, horrible adaptation"

Thats probably the best way to describe V for Vendetta.

[joydivsion]

The film is crap: as are any alan moore adaptations. Read the original sources and see why he is brilliant

No wonder Moore wanted nothing to do with the film9did you see his name linked to the graphic novel at the end?)

[PreachanStoirm]

Go read some steve ditko.

Oh by the way WHAT FILM DID YOU SEE?

I think youl find moores GRAPHIC NOVEL is in almost no way but name tied to the film.

He withdrew any support for the film before it was made so stop criticizing the wrong person.

Also due to your recent lobotomy i think you have completly missed the point of the film as in no way could it be seen as anti english.

Unless you consider fascist totalitanarism quintessential englishness.....

[psychodelicategirl]

Thanks to HashToker for posting these videos.

[HashToker]

No Probs :)

[HashToker]

LOL!!

Freedom Of Cyber Speech i suppose.

I'm not quite sure how Moore is "Happy to pervert English History for his own degenerate ends"

I've never read the book but i do own a copy, and off of the back cover i quote:

"Set in an imagined future England that has never given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it."

End Quote.

[HashToker]

The Keywords here are IMAGINED FUTURE and STORY.

I haven't had a chance to see the film yet but from what i understand Mr Moore's name doesn't appear in the credits, the evidence i have of this is can be seen here on YouTube in the Alan Moore Culture Show Interview pt5.

[ZombieDragQueen]

@HashToker

I believe that he was really disappointed with From Hell and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I would have been too had I written them) and hence the total disregard towards the V for Vendetta film adaptation. However, while From Hell and League's major theme was the story, script and the beautiful artwork, the political message of V for Vendetta was greatly captured in the film, even though it took its liberties with the graphic novel.

[Chinaboatman]

Alan Moore wrote the original Graphic Novel that the V for Vendetta film was based very loosely upon. He had nothing whatsoever to do with the production of the film. In fact he was so opposed to it that he requested his name be removed from the credits, a request which was fulfilled.

You should consider these things more in the future when you decide to post personal attacks about people who's work you have no knowledge of.