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 Alan
Moore has announced his retirement from writing comics. He told The Guardian
that he has "about 250 pages of comics left" before he walks away. Moore
explained: “I think I have done enough for comics. I’ve done all that I can. I
think if I were to continue to work in comics, inevitably the ideas would
suffer, inevitably you’d start to see me retread old ground and I think both you
and I probably deserve something better than that. There are a couple of issues
of an Avatar book that I am doing at the moment, part of the HP Lovecraft work
I’ve been working on recently. Kevin O'Neill and I will be finishing Cinema
Purgatorio and we’ve got about one more book, a final book of League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen to complete. After that, although I may do the odd
little comics piece at some point in the future, I am pretty much done with
comics.” Moore went on to say: I will always revere comics as a medium. It is a
wonderful medium. I am sure there is probably a very good reason for the
hundreds of thousands of adults who are flocking to see the latest adventures of
Batman, but I for one am a little in the dark for what that reason is. The
superhero movies – characters that were invented by Jack Kirby in the 1960s or
earlier – I have great love for those characters as they were to me when I was a
13-year-old boy. They were brilliantly designed and created characters. But they
were for 50 years ago. I think this century needs, deserves, its own culture. It
deserves artists that are actually going to attempt to say things that are
relevant to the times we are actually living in. That’s a longwinded way of me
saying I am really, really sick of Batman.” Moore has retired from comics
before. In 2004 he said that the end of his America's Best Comics imprint was
his "retirement" from comic books. |
