I'm not sure. Morrison is totally immersed in post-modernism, from his references, to his philosophy, to his belief system.
From his ideas about "pop culture saving us all" to his embracing Chaos magic.
On the other hand, Moore references Aleister Crowley and ritual high magic.
While he does get involved with Chaos magic, a work like Promethea is far more grounded in traditionalism than post-modernism (outside of the meta-references within the fictional comic text).
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Posted 07 September 2011 - 09:51 PM
That's more to do with Moore having a respect for even useless and pointless erudition than Morrison's working lacking substance and being solely concerned with surfaces, though.
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Posted 08 September 2011 - 09:01 PM
Well, speaking as a pedant, I can't say I ever encountered " useless and pointless erudition".
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Wodehouse of course.
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Posted 09 September 2011 - 12:10 PM
Go to a science fiction convention and ask a Trekkie a daft question about Spock: that'll get you a pretty good example of pointless erudition.
All knowledge has some value, of course, but that value isn't always obvious to the naked eye.
All knowledge has some value, of course, but that value isn't always obvious to the naked eye.
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 10:15 AM
Another interesting interview with the big hairy one -
http://www.honestpub...ing-and-kindle/
- including thoughts on the current publishing scene, and on Frank Miller's recent fuckwittery.
http://www.honestpub...ing-and-kindle/
- including thoughts on the current publishing scene, and on Frank Miller's recent fuckwittery.
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Posted 03 December 2011 - 06:32 PM
Very good read. He was on about the Occupy protestors using the V masks in last week's Observer as well...
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'Bazinga!' -Sheldon
'Genius is born, not paid' -Oscar Wilde
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 02:34 AM
The mask aspect was in this mornings newspaper here, he seemed a VERY very laid back and happy Moore indeed, almost like . . . an imposter!.
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Wodehouse of course.
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Posted 04 December 2011 - 03:52 PM
Maybe it was his non-evil twin?
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"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 05:34 PM
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Without wishing to overstate my case, everything in the observable universe definitely has its origins in Northamptonshire, and the adoption of the V for Vendetta mask as a multipurpose icon by the emerging global protest movements is no exception.
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"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 05:36 PM
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With regard to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, what I’m doing with that is a kind of literary game that has been going on as long as books have been around.
I mean, it probably started with whoever came up with Jason and the Argonauts, who thought, “Hey wouldn’t it be great if we had a sort of Justice League of ancient Greece. And we got Hercules and Jason and all of these other characters and you know…”
More recently, you have authors like Edgar Allan Poe. He writes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Jules Verne thinks it’s great, so he writes a sequel to it. H.P. Lovecraft–he likes the same story, so he writes his conclusion to it in At the Mountains of Madness.
I don’t think any of these people would have minded because they were all good writers who were all bringing something new to the mix. They weren’t exploiting the original works. Jules Verne called his novella, The Ice Sphinx or Le Sphinx Des Glaces. He didn’t call it The Return of Arthur Gordon Pym.
I mean, it probably started with whoever came up with Jason and the Argonauts, who thought, “Hey wouldn’t it be great if we had a sort of Justice League of ancient Greece. And we got Hercules and Jason and all of these other characters and you know…”
More recently, you have authors like Edgar Allan Poe. He writes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Jules Verne thinks it’s great, so he writes a sequel to it. H.P. Lovecraft–he likes the same story, so he writes his conclusion to it in At the Mountains of Madness.
I don’t think any of these people would have minded because they were all good writers who were all bringing something new to the mix. They weren’t exploiting the original works. Jules Verne called his novella, The Ice Sphinx or Le Sphinx Des Glaces. He didn’t call it The Return of Arthur Gordon Pym.
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"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
"But that's the whole point, it's supernatural, these things happen.
It's not supposed to be realistic in that sense."
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 08:15 PM
That Seraphemera interview also has some interesting comments about one John Constantine, with regards to creator- and company-owned characters -
I understood that when I had finished with that character that it would just be absorbed into the general DC stockpile and I believe that I've expressed my admiration. I think that Brian Azzarello's editor had heard that I quite liked the job that he did with Richard Corben on Hellblazer and he phoned up asking me for a quote. I don't know if they ever used it, but I gave them a fulsome one.
I understood that when I had finished with that character that it would just be absorbed into the general DC stockpile and I believe that I've expressed my admiration. I think that Brian Azzarello's editor had heard that I quite liked the job that he did with Richard Corben on Hellblazer and he phoned up asking me for a quote. I don't know if they ever used it, but I gave them a fulsome one.
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 11:19 PM
Why doesn't Alan Moore stop beating around the bush and just admit that he wants to be Philip Jose Farmer?
Come away, O human child
From the waters and the wild;
Take a fairy by the hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand...." -W.B. Yeats
From the waters and the wild;
Take a fairy by the hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 01:21 PM
Because then it'd look like he was ripping off Kim Newman who wanted to be Phillip Jose Farmer first?
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 09:42 PM
HA! So true! And, that'd be just sad.
Come away, O human child
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Take a fairy by the hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand...." -W.B. Yeats
From the waters and the wild;
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For the world's more full of weeping
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 11:23 PM
On 8 tracks, I found a mix with Alan Moore as its inspiration.
As Alan Screams Out for Moore
and another one.
As Alan Screams Out for Moore
and another one.
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Posted 22 March 2012 - 10:13 PM
He skips to 2009? I'm not going to recognize any of the pop culture references.
Basucally, pretty much everything after early-'90s in pop culture, I have no idea about.
Can he even get enough good cultural references from the 2000s?
Basucally, pretty much everything after early-'90s in pop culture, I have no idea about.
Can he even get enough good cultural references from the 2000s?
Come away, O human child
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Take a fairy by the hand,
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Posted 23 March 2012 - 03:22 AM
I rather doubt Moore's seen anything from after the 1980s.
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Posted 23 March 2012 - 03:56 AM
Then we should be good to go on Pretty in Pink and Echo & the Bunnymen references!
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