Alan David Doane continues his string of amazing gets with a 5,000-word interview with Mr. Alan Moore. It occurs to me that I don’t think I’ve ever read an interview with the writer before, but this one’s a great place to start. Moore talks about his new prose novel Voice of the Fire, the legal machinations surrounding his old superhero book Miracleman, the pros and cons of his influential work on Swamp Thing and Watchmen (including a tip of the hat to Frank Miller), and more. He comes off both intelligent and warm. Check it out.
NYTimes.com Ends Publication of Painfully Unfunny, Indescribably Poorly Drawn, Tediously and Self-Consciously “Shocking” Political Cartoons; Ted Rall Hardest Hit (Link courtesy of Kevin Melrose.)
In life, three things are certain: Death, taxes, and people trying to make themselves look smart and with-it by bashing superhero stories. Interman creator Jeff Parker is the latest entrant into the third category; Steven Berg takes him down.
Tackling a subject Jim Henley and yours truly have wracked our brains over for some time now, Tim O’Neil analyzes the trouble with Captain America. Money quote:
Why is it so hard to strike the balance between Captain America the moral idealist and Captain America the professional asskicker?
Or as I put it the other day, “It just shouldn’t be that hard to come up with a vaguely realistic fictional milieu for the character (i.e. one where he isn’t fighting Avengers-style supervillains) while simultaneously avoiding the sense that the writer is vaguely embarrassed to be writing the character.”
Finally, is it just me, or does Artbomb‘s slogan (“A GRAPHIC NOVEL EXPLOSION. PULL THE PIN”) remind you of that old line “SUCH-AND-SUCH FEVER–CATCH IT!”?