Alan Moore Interview at The Quietus
Alan Moore certainly doesn’t need an introduction to readers of RGB Filter. The prolific and literary comics writer who altered the superhero landscape with Watchmen almost 25 years ago, and continues to push the boundaries to this day. The Quietus has put online an interview with Alan Moore that originally ran in their sister publication The Stool Pigeon. The interview is a great read, that goes wide afield from the typical comic interview, and I highly recommend it.
Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I’ve tried to say, ‘Look, we are all crappy superheroes,’ because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We’ve all got this immense power and we’re still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We’re rubbish, even though we are as gods. I think the idea that we can all be superheroes if we want might still be contagious, like in V For Vendetta. I’ve heard of urban superheroes springing up across the world. I think there’s one in London called Angle-grinder Man…
The full interview can be read over at The Quietus, and check out Unearthing at Lex Records. You can catch a preview of Unearthing after the break.
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