Over the weekend , Alan Moore engaged in a2.5 - hour webchatas a fundraiserfor Cleveland ’s Harvey Pekar Library Statue . During this frank conversation , the Bearded Master addressed doubt about his feud with Grant Morrison ( short answer : there is n’t one ) , why he wrote Neonomicon ( “ Because I had a monolithic , massive tax debt . ” ) , and the difference between DC resurrecting Watchmen and Moore allow literary characters for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen :
In lit , I would say that it ’s different . I would say , and it might be splitting tomentum , but I ’m not adapt these characters . I ’m not doing an adaptation of Dracula or King Solomon ’s Mines . What I am doing is steal them . There is a difference between doing an adaptation , which is malefic , and actually slip the characters , which , as long as everybody ’s dead or you do n’t mention the names , is perfectly alright by me . I ’m not adjudicate to be slick here , I genuinely do feel that in literature you ’ve experience a tradition that exit back to Jason and the Argonauts of combining literary character [ … ]
It ’s just irresistible to do these fictitious mash - ups . They ’ve been go away on for C of long time and I palpate I ’m a part of a proud literary tradition in doing that . With claim comic fictional character that have been created by cheated old man , I palpate that that is different [ … ] and that ’s my take on the field of study
And most importantly , Moore denote that he ’s lick on a new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen project with Kevin O’Neill , the 48 - Sir Frederick Handley Page one - dig funny Nemo : Heart of Ice .
In this comedian — which take away place in Antarctica in the 1920s — Jules Verne will collide with H.P. Lovecraft . “ It consume place in Antarctica and [ the work of H.P. Lovecraft ] is a major factor . You figure it out , ” promised Moore . If all choke concord to design , Heart of Ice will be out by the end of 2012 . The next League book , Century : 2009 , is slated for June .
[ ViaBleeding Cool ]
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