Much like Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida , two icons of old Hollywood who were notorious for their longstanding rivalry , comics colossus Grant Morrison and Alan Moore havenever been greatat keeping one another ’s public figure outside of their mouths , especially when asked about why they do n’t see eye to oculus .
Despite coming up in the industry around the same prison term , moving in similar professional circle , and often being compared to each other , Morrison and Moore ’s relationship has vacillated between outright hostility and begrudging deference for the better part of the past 30 year . What ’s in the past is very much in the past tense , but , at least for Morrison , it ’s not all that difficult for him to recall what led to his falling out with Moore — and what it was ( and proceed to be ) about Watchmen that does n’t sit well with him .
Today , IDW Publishing announcedthe Kickstarter for its forthcoming third volume of Full Bleed , its quarterly comic magazine feature art , analytic thinking , and in - profoundness interview with comics Godhead . In summation to conversations with author Tini Howard and Metallica ’s Kirk Hammett , Full Bleed Vol . 3 : Heavy Rotation also includes a lengthy consultation with Morrison about his life , his career , and of course of action , his kick with Moore .
The Kickstarter for Full Bleed Vol . 3 : Heavy Rotation will be fly the coop for the next month , but for those of you interested in getting just a taste of what Morrison had to say , we ’ve got an exclusive excerpt you may read below :
I ’ve read Watchmen many times . The reason that I hate it when I was 25 are still there , but now I kind of like it because I ’m elderly and I like the structure and I ’m quite in reverence of the absoluteness of it . But for all the same reasons , I hate it .
The fact that none of the characters were allowed to be smarter than the author , that really drove me nuts . The Earth ’s smartest man is an idiot . He makes a programme all his life that is undone by the goal of the Holy Writ in an instant . The head-shrinker sits with Rorschach for five minutes and Rorschach tells a super commonplace story of how he became a vigilante and the psychiatrist cracks . If you ’re a criminal head-shrinker who deals with humanity in prison , you ’ve heard a million of these fib . It was all to make a specific point about how the substantial domain is n’t like superhero comics ,
In my school , I was taught in this Scottish Presbyterian way that structure is hide : you do n’t see the writer ’s car-mechanic . Watchmen , you ca n’t work the page without him saying “ Look at me , look at me , attend at me . ” Okay , we get it , piece . You got throw out of school at 16 for dealing acid , you ’re canny .
I took potshot at him in the medium . I was the first person to say Watchmen was n’t very good – in fact , the only person to ever say that . And that made him angry so then I would get high-risk . I said that Watchmen was the 300 - page eq of a 6th - pattern poem . That sort of trash talk , I ’d brought from being in the circle because that ’s what you ’re like in a banding . I ’d brought all that across with me to comic strip and it did n’t go down well . I think it really upset him .
Alan Moore did n’t address to me after that and would take his own little shots . He called Arkham Asylum a “ gilded turd . ” Since then , I ’ve had nothing to do with him and he ’s got nothing to do with me . A lot of comic fans like to think there ’s some feud but a feud would actually want to require people ’s stake . I read his stuff , he interpret my material – he pretends he does n’t , but he does .
It was the archetypal conflict , and it was n’t fair , ‘ cause I lie with his work . Well , there ’s a lot of it I do n’t care , but of path , he ’s great . We grew up in a very similar clock time even though I ’m a little bit younger than him . It ’s the same influences from ‘ LX TV and ‘ 70s television set and the books we learn , sci - fi , all that stuff , same comics . And the fact that he got into magic … it ’s two people who are so similar but so utterly dissimilar that there has to be a feud .
you could check out theKickstarter for Full Bleed Vol . 3 : Heavy Rotation here .
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