And said mentality was brought on by the Comics Code Authority of the 1950s, which was created by the comic book publishers after the industry was raked over the coals by Kefauver’s commission hearings on juvenile delinquency. Crime and horror comics were big until the CCA went into effect; afterward, it was all about happy happy superheroes. Bill Gaines’ very successful EC Comics was decimated by the CCA, leaving him with nothing but MAD Magazine (which, admittedly, made him a fortune).

Superhero comics started treading into adult issues in the 70s (Batman became Gothic again, ditching Robin for a solo career, and Spider-Man featured a famous storyline involving drug abuse; also, Iron Man dealt with alcoholism), which eventually led to the publication of Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns in the mid-80s.

And, thankfully, we now have movie directors and screenwriters who cut their teeth on 70s and 80s comics, so they understand how the material should be portrayed.

Watchmen is a very faithful adaptation of its source material, which the creator deemed unfilmable, while League took only the main characters and made a wretched mess of a can’t-miss premise that you’d think any competent studio could have filmed well.

Moore has legitimate complaints about the shoddy treatment he’s received from both the company that published Watchmen, and the companies which have attempted to “adapt” his work. One filmscript was pushed through before he’d even finished writing the comic story himself. And he has been publically misrepresented by the studios.

His beefs with the movie industry are not piques or fancies. They are as a result of his long-term bad experiences when dealing with them.

Moore is an honourable man. It’s a shame many of his critics are not.

I liked it.

Go see it.

I think it is true, Hollywood does not make things verbatim from stories. There’s all kinds of politics, rationales and just plain editing for a global audience. I also think you can look at it two ways, it’s my creation and to think of messing with it for the big screen is blasphemy, and the other way, you take it as a nod that someone was impressed enough with your work to want it to reach a larger audience.

I’ve liked Moore’s stories, but I always think he’s not much more than a primadonna, but that is my opinion.

Personally, I think that if the original message gets across on screen that was in the original story, then it has succeeded. I also think that graphic novels are becoming more popular for movies, because essentially the story board has already been written for you.

I’m going to go see the movie, probably in spite of Alan Moore’s bemoanings, which will still mean a bigger paycheck for him.

I’ll give it a shot, and reserve the right to judge the film when I see it, whenever that will be. These things do not come out very fast in Japan where I live.

Any royalties he’s gotten from the “films”, he’s given to the artist of the respective work.

Personally. I’ve already seen Watchmen. In a book. Because I can read and can enjoy things that aren’t terrible.