Alan Moore Has a New Project

Alan Moore, writer of such seminal works as “Watchmen,” “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” and “V for Vendetta;” and perhaps even more well known for ranting and raving about said movie adaptations being utter shit.(he’s right about at least one on that list).Anyhow, Moore has a new project due this month from Knockabout Comix in the UK and Top Shelf here in the States.

Comicbookresources.com has an interview with Moore, that’s a bit of the interviewer placing his lips firmly around Moore’s scrote, but gives quite a bit of info on “Dodgem Logic,” Moore’s brand new: Underground Magazine. Looks like Mr.
worships-a-snake-god-and-claims-to-have-met-John-Constantine-in-real-life-twice has wanted to do something that reflects on his Northampton roots and has a focus on said area, oh yeah, and he wanted to give a platform to his new hip-hop posse, among other things.

Worry not, there is still some Moore penned, and drawn no less, comics material in the mag, as well as some work by other artists, Moore’s art reminds me a bit of guys like Crumb and Pekar, which is what I’d expect from a guy who got expelled from high school for selling LSD.

I personally think nothing is more awesome when comic book creators go absolutely bat-shit crazy and do whatever the fuck they want. Although I much prefer the Frank Miller mold of going crazy, where your comics become over the top and AWESOME!!! (Just you wait, Miller’s disciples Mark Millar and Ed Brubaker are on their way to this MO) The Alan Moore model of crazy is pretty intriguing. And yeah, Moore also does some pretty noble shit: like forfeiting any rights and proceeds of Marvleman to creator Nick Anglo, but don’t let those bastards subdue you, or worse, fade into hiding like the original crazy comic creator: The Objectivist wonder Steve Ditko.  Make a Peter Pan porno, worship a snake, get so up your own ass that you think only you are qualified to tell a story; I don’t care, just keep on trucking and wrecking shit when you can.

On a final note, Alan Moore has my undying respect in one major regard: for years, Moore was married to a woman named Phyllis and the two had a mutual lover named Deborah, which is rad. What’s even more rad is when the two decided that they were both lesbians and left Moore to be solely with each other. Alan Moore is such an epic man that after him, no other would suffice, and he did it TWICE! In the Smith family, if your girlfriend leaves you for a woman, you are awarded a free steak dinner, Mr. Moore, if you are ever in the Sonoma area of Northern California, I will take you out for a steak, or a grilled portabella Mushroom, since you’re a vegetarian. 

Look for Dodgem Logic next month.