Alan Moore responds to Frank Miller's crazy anti OWS statement

[CptStern]

Alan Moore responds to frank Miller's unhinged statement about the Occupy Wall Street Movement

“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past twenty years. I thought the Sin City stuff was unreconstructed misogyny, 300 appeared to be wildly ahistoric, homophobic and just completely misguided.

I heard about the latest outpourings regarding the Occupy movement. It’s about what I’d expect from him. It’s always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you’d have to say centre-right.

So yes I think it would be fair to say that me and Frank Miller have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement.

“As far as I can see, the Occupy movement is just ordinary people reclaiming rights which should always have been theirs. I can’t think of any reason why as a population we should be expected to stand by and see a gross reduction in the living standards of ourselves and our kids, possibly for generations, when the people who have got us into this have been rewarded for it; they’ve certainly not been punished in any way because they’re too big to fail. I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who’s too big to fail. It’s a completely justified howl of moral outrage and it seems to be handled in a very intelligent, non-violent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it. I’m sure if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman make-up on their faces, he’d be more in favour of it. We would definitely have to agree to differ on that one.”

http://www.badhaven.com/comics/comic-news/alan-moore-responds-to-frank-millers-occupy-rant/

 

[Yorick]

Alan Moore is like your grandfather. Sometimes he's a bit angry or confusing, but he's yours and you love him. Frank Miller is the crazy ****ing uncle that your parents don't invite to any gatherings and pretend not to know.

 

[Stylo]

Frank Miller should be henceforth referred to as "Old Man Miller" in the sense that he's like the crazy old guy in a leafy suburb that the kids have heard stories about.

"Oh my God, Bobby! You hit the ball into Old Man Miller's yard! You're gonna have to go get it!"

"I don't wanna get it! I'm not going anywhere near Old Man Miller's house!"

"You hit it, you fetch it!"

"I hear he drinks blended puppies"

 

[Remus]

Amusing, since Alan Moore is a bit of a cook himself.

 

[anomalosmaterial]

Amusing, since Alan Moore is a bit of a cook himself.

Like pancakes and sausage or a REAL cook?

 

[Bad^Hat]

It’s always seemed to me that the majority of the comics field, if you had to place them politically, you’d have to say centre-right.

This kind of intrigues me. Maybe the strong sense of right vs. wrong and justice against evil you get in superhero comics and stuff attracts that kind of mindset? Who knows.~

 

[Eejit]

Plus generally jerking off about violence.

 

[anomalosmaterial]

This kind of intrigues me. Maybe the strong sense of right vs. wrong and justice against evil you get in superhero comics and stuff attracts that kind of mindset? Who knows.~

Uh Frank Millers Sin City has very little right vs. wrong, 300 doesnt either. Its all just pitiful attempts at shock value, violence porn

As for others, most of the big storied names are old, old makes them center right

 

[Remus]

Like pancakes and sausage or a REAL cook?

Funny.

More like anarchist lunatic.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Uh Frank Millers Sin City has very little right vs. wrong, 300 doesnt either. Its all just pitiful attempts at shock value, violence porn

As for others, most of the big storied names are old, old makes them center right

Yeah, I honestly didn't find that Sin City or 300 had much of a moral compass at all, and that was probably intentional on Miller's part. I was just speaking generally, but you could well be right about the age thing.

 

[ríomhaire]

For some reason I thought he was dead.