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meganbmoore The article in question.
A few of my favorite bits:
“But then he took that formula and just kinda did that same thing, I mean, Tom Strong is Supreme, it’s flattering that he found his groove back with us and started winning awards back with us because people forget, he’d fallen off the map, you can’t really find a great Alan Moore book from ’90 to like ’96
Oh, he was just off making massively acclaimed comics that would later get turned into movies in those years, that's all....And Tom Strong is not Supreme. Tom Strong is a tribute to every pulp hero who ever existed.
“If you’ve done business with Alan, you have a different opinion of Alan. He markets himself as a poet, but he’s just a ruthless businessman, like everybody else, he kept wanting to more work because he just wanted to get paid. Jeph Loeb, he can tell you.”
Wow...I didn't realize it was such a terrible thing to expect to get PAID for your work and toexpect to be able to live off it when you're one of the most acclaimed people in your field. Besides, I've only ever seen him market himself as a comic book writer...a bit too much of one, but hey...
“You worship at the altar of Alan, and then you go, oh, he’s just another guy that’s looking to get paid, and that’s why he’d do 3-4 books a month for us. Literally, he’d send three scripts through the copy machine”
Urm...you mean fax machine? Of course, I guess the guy incapable of meeting a deadline within even 6 months of the original date would view being able to actually get work out there as a bad thing...
He’s brilliant, but to me I think he’s been revealed as someone who’s spiraled wildly out of control. Like, he had a falling out with Wildstorm, you know, he’s having another falling out with DC, he won’t work for Marvel. At some point you put yourself on line and go, well, gee, Alan, is it everyone else, or is it you?”
Given who's saying this, I have no words.
He’s just a guy who wants to get paid, and he cuts deals for himself that he doesn’t like down the line, and then he gets whiny and cries about it...Hey man, he worked for me for two years, I was quiet for like ten years. And then I watched him burn every other bridge, and I go “Hmm.”
Se above. Wow.
And he comes out and he lets everybody know now 'I’m going to crap all over the adaptations you do,' he’s shown no loyalty to his fellow artists like Dave Gibbons or David Lloyd. He knows that by coming out and crapping on the movie, he’s gonna keep a certain percentage of the fan base away.
wait wait wait...ok, yeah, Moore's refusal to take money or support movie adaptations of his work is a rather legitimate piece of controversy, granted, but what'd he do to warrant that statement, threatened to hack off Loyd's and Gibbons's right hands if they took any money? Call them worthless hacks? What?
He’s a genius, a showman, a shrewd businessman, and a whiner. I have no intention of working with him again.
By all accounts, 3 of the 4 can be accounted to Moore. By all accounts, only one can be attributed to Liefeld. No overlap.
A few of my favorite bits:
“But then he took that formula and just kinda did that same thing, I mean, Tom Strong is Supreme, it’s flattering that he found his groove back with us and started winning awards back with us because people forget, he’d fallen off the map, you can’t really find a great Alan Moore book from ’90 to like ’96
Oh, he was just off making massively acclaimed comics that would later get turned into movies in those years, that's all....And Tom Strong is not Supreme. Tom Strong is a tribute to every pulp hero who ever existed.
“If you’ve done business with Alan, you have a different opinion of Alan. He markets himself as a poet, but he’s just a ruthless businessman, like everybody else, he kept wanting to more work because he just wanted to get paid. Jeph Loeb, he can tell you.”
Wow...I didn't realize it was such a terrible thing to expect to get PAID for your work and toexpect to be able to live off it when you're one of the most acclaimed people in your field. Besides, I've only ever seen him market himself as a comic book writer...a bit too much of one, but hey...
“You worship at the altar of Alan, and then you go, oh, he’s just another guy that’s looking to get paid, and that’s why he’d do 3-4 books a month for us. Literally, he’d send three scripts through the copy machine”
Urm...you mean fax machine? Of course, I guess the guy incapable of meeting a deadline within even 6 months of the original date would view being able to actually get work out there as a bad thing...
He’s brilliant, but to me I think he’s been revealed as someone who’s spiraled wildly out of control. Like, he had a falling out with Wildstorm, you know, he’s having another falling out with DC, he won’t work for Marvel. At some point you put yourself on line and go, well, gee, Alan, is it everyone else, or is it you?”
Given who's saying this, I have no words.
He’s just a guy who wants to get paid, and he cuts deals for himself that he doesn’t like down the line, and then he gets whiny and cries about it...Hey man, he worked for me for two years, I was quiet for like ten years. And then I watched him burn every other bridge, and I go “Hmm.”
Se above. Wow.
And he comes out and he lets everybody know now 'I’m going to crap all over the adaptations you do,' he’s shown no loyalty to his fellow artists like Dave Gibbons or David Lloyd. He knows that by coming out and crapping on the movie, he’s gonna keep a certain percentage of the fan base away.
wait wait wait...ok, yeah, Moore's refusal to take money or support movie adaptations of his work is a rather legitimate piece of controversy, granted, but what'd he do to warrant that statement, threatened to hack off Loyd's and Gibbons's right hands if they took any money? Call them worthless hacks? What?
He’s a genius, a showman, a shrewd businessman, and a whiner. I have no intention of working with him again.
By all accounts, 3 of the 4 can be accounted to Moore. By all accounts, only one can be attributed to Liefeld. No overlap.