Graphic Comics and Alan Moore (6)
Friday, July 13, 2007 at 12:36PM
Ron Burnett

Salon Magazine ran an article on Alan Moore entitled, The man who invented the future By Scott Thill

"Watchmen, Moore's groundbreaking serial that blew the comics genre wide open, unmasked our presumed comic-book heroes as nothing but a set of neuroses and psychoses in action, figures who look the other way (some in protest) as one of their own unleashes a devastating act of terror that kills half of New York's population -- ironically enough, in order to save the world from nuclear annihilation. It is the same kind of warped cost-benefit analysis that, some would argue, led to 9/11 and its resultant wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and who knows where else."

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