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templepriest
10/12/09

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What Alan Moore really needs is a good scrubbing.
If we could clean him up, who knows what he would be capable of creating !??!
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Ben Zvan
10/12/09

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How about "How much Moore do we need?"
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LeopoldNestor
10/12/09

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Conspicuously missing from the topic list is "Moore: Why does he act like such a tool?"
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Arryma
10/12/09

@LeopoldNestor: Well, I don't know the guy personally but in my experience comments that make an industry outsider sound like an asshole are ten times more likely to be published than comments that lend credibility to his position.
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Illogic
10/12/09

@Arryma: Might have something to do with the natural formation of groups, and the suspicion that tends to be directed towards the ones outside of it.
Considering that he also likes to challenge the comic book medium, I'd say that hostility would be expected.
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Smeagol92055
10/12/09

@LeopoldNestor: You'd be a bit grumpy, too, if every one of your works to be adapted to the screen were complete abominations of what you wrote.
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Aidan_
10/12/09

@Smeagol92055: I wouldn't say every one (I personally preferred Watchmen as a film over it as a comic, in terms of story. There, I said it), but yes, he has been screwed over on multiple occasions by the Big Two and the Hollywood establishment.

Slight crazy aside, he actually seems like a very nice and personable guy. Just very dedicated to his sense of ethics, which is something I admire.
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Dirk Anger
10/12/09

@Smeagol92055: not ALL of them are abominations, and he acts the same with LXG than he does with V. V is arguably a bad adaptation, and I agree with him that it's not loyal to the spirit of the book, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, and hardly puts it on LXG level.
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Pope John Peeps II
10/12/09

@Aidan_: Having ideals is one thing, but ethics is also how you treat and relate to other human beings. If you believe in your work and hate to see it altered, that's one thing, and it can be a mature and strong conviction. But if you treat other people like shit, it means that you yourself are insecure, immature and have never fully developed into an adult. Still being a child, you have to lash out at the world to bolster your own sense of security.

I'm not trying to put it in a way that's offensive, but it seems to me that's the divide between people who "admire" Moore and people who think he acts like a tool. I think he acts like a tool.
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GreyHammer
10/12/09

@LeopoldNestor: he has antisocial personality disorder. many writers are like that eccentric people who prefer characters they create to actual people. he is someone who wants complete control and he doesnt have it with other people. so when his characters are taken from him he gets angry over another loss of said control. etc.
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OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
10/12/09

@LeopoldNestor: Snake god wills it so.
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0kami
10/12/09

@Dirk Anger: I LOVED V for Vendetta, but LGX was a travesty.
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icelight
10/12/09

@GreyHammer: Antisocial personality disorder doesn't actually make you an angry, antisocial recluse. It tends to be the diagnosis given to utterly amoral serial killers, the kind who laugh about torturing their victims for fun and then hit on their interrogators in the same sentence. I don't think anyone has accused Moore of going quite that far.

Me, I'm just waiting until 50 years from now, when academics at the same conference will all start claiming he was gay, or actually 5 different writers.
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Dirk Anger
10/15/09

@0kami: Exactly. While I found V very entertaining, I have to admit that the political message was changed, what would give AM grounds to be rightfully pissed #alanmoore
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BongoFury
03/09/09

In reply to The Science of Explosions
Is it bad that I saw 'O'Reilly' and 'car bomb' and thought about the auto parts store?

O, O, O... O'Rei
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Mount_Prion
03/09/09

@BongoFury: For me, when you put those words together I am overcome by a feeling of bliss.
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lazyeight
03/09/09

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I know it's not about this, but I analyzed the photo and determined that it was, indeed, a car that blew up.
I'm CSI:LV, Miami & NY trained. Even though I couldn't use Luminol or DNA or even polycyanoacrylate fingerprint lifting, my scientific analysis indicates that there is a great probability that the burned rims and engine parts once formed an internal combustion powered person or cargo vehicle normally found on roads and highways.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/09/09

@lazyeight: Funny, I thought it was the end product of my attempts at cooking.
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corpore-metal
03/09/09

In reply to The Science of Explosions
These things are never where I live.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/09/09

@corpore-metal: Oddly enough, this time it's in my hometown of San Jose. Who'da thunkit?
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corpore-metal
03/09/09

@crashedpc: These things are always somewhere in California. We never seem to have stuff like this in Washington State.
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Grey_Area
03/09/09

@corpore-metal: You just need to live in more places at once. You'll never miss a thing.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
03/09/09

@Grey_Area: Seriously, man. People gotta get with the times.
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Pessimippopotamus
03/09/09

@corpore-metal: It's in the wrong part of California for me.
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Mount_Prion
03/09/09

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I'm satisfied with the explosion knowledge I gained from Myth Busters. All anybody really needs to know is how to blow up a toilet.
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