He may have created Watchmen, one of the most popular superhero comics of all time, with a television adaptation currently airing on HBO, but Alan Moore is worried about the impact of the genre. In a 2017 interview with Brazil’s Folha de São Paulo, which was published in English for the first time this week on a Moore fan blog, the writer said he believes that superheroes are “perfectly suited” for children and their scale of imagination. The story, which follows a group of vigilantes in an alternate reality where their presence changes the course of history, was one of the first to introduce a darker take on the genre, and influenced many series after it. … I would also remark that save for a smattering of non-white characters (and non-white creators) these books and these iconic characters are still very much white supremacist dreams of the master race. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

Source: National Post November 19, 2019 18:23 UTC