born a prisoner, set free by God

- adapted from Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta – chapter 12 and Chapter 13.
The Verdict and Value
We are born into a prison – and the prison is our body, it is the world around us, it is the system that is imperfect, ruled by the prince of the world (satan) and made to exploits us.
Even [...]

Is TRANSFORMERS distasteful and wrong?

The SINS of making a blockbuster  film

“If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn’t cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation.
When you’ve got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being [...]

Alan Moore : “don’t trust whitey”

From Alan Moore Exit interview on leaving DC.
Part of the relief I felt about divorcing myself from DC is that I no longer feel comfortable about working for big American businesses, or big businesses of any sort. But, at this particular moment, I have a special aversion towards big American businesses because their business policy [...]

Why writer Alan Moore is left out of Snyder’s WATCHMEN movie

“Originally I was content to just simply accept the money, that was offered when people had adapted my comic books into films. Eventually I decided to refuse to accept any of the money for the films, and to ask if my name could be taken off of them, so that I no longer had to [...]

Do what can’t be done – Alan Moore

More excerpts from ‘Writing Comics’ by Alan Moore, a great novelist.
(This one is about staying grounded to your work and written after he already BECAME a famous writer.)

make things hard for yourself – Attempt things that you are not sure you can accomplish. If you are certain that you can do a thing then there [...]