Alan Moore, Kanye West style
Found via The Beat, this photo mashup references Alan Moore’s recent shots at “Blackest Night” in a Mania interview.
Moore said:
I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night] in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page stories that I did 25 or 30 years ago. I would have thought that would seem kind of desperate and humiliating.
Moore hasn’t, however, read “Blackest Night.”
I haven’t read a book from any of the mainstream companies in years. I’ve read a couple of comics over the last couple of years. But, I’ve certainly not read anything from DC or Marvel.
No response that I’ve seen from Johns, but frequent collaborator James Robinson responded on Twitter. His overall response made several points, including:
I love reading Moore’s work, but I find a sliver of hypocrisy in him taking such holier than though view of things.
My personal take: I also love Alan Moore’s writing, but I don’t see the value in critiquing something that you haven’t read. What something is based on or inspired by doesn’t have much to do with how something is executed.
What stood out to me about the picture included at the top of this article is that it’s based on a photo I took. The Geoff Johns half, anyway. I don’t think it’ll win any photojournalism awards, but you can check out the original photo here.
- Matt Price
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
That Alan, he is a ….? Alan should have said,
“But Matt Price took the best picture of you of all time!”