tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979663737404474935.post3113497098135850411..comments2024-03-22T15:19:36.418+00:00Comments on The World According To Me: AprilPhil Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12680058800847509275noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979663737404474935.post-47322970308000366032010-11-23T00:29:50.299+00:002010-11-23T00:29:50.299+00:00I read Moore's Swamp Thing way back when he fi...I read Moore's Swamp Thing way back when he first wrote it; mainly because Swamp Thing by Wein and Wrightson was the first US comic I ever bought. I hated Moore's version, but I was still young (in my early 20s) and didn't give it enough time. I returned to it many years later with fresh eyes, having spent a couple of hours talking to Alan in the pub about it. In many ways I hated it even more because he should have just created his own elementals idea and discarded Swamp Thing; instead he not only de and reconstructed the reason I read American comics in the first place, but he filled it with his own pretentious, drug-fuelled personality, in what I regard as him doing what he did just to be seen as different.<br />I don't feel a comicbook should need annotations to fully understand or appreciate it, it is essentially there as 15 minutes of escapism and fun. Moore didn't do what he did to try and make comics more serious; he did what he did to Swamp Thing because it was dead on its feet - he would have done exactly the same with any comic that was to be cancelled; because he believed that he could save anything by changing it beyond belief. But the point was, it was someone else's idea and character; he just came along and did something no one else had done before with it. He did the same with the Charlton heroes in Watchmen; he did a superhero NYPD Blue or Hill Street Blues with Top Ten and he took a 50s idea and updated it with MM and someone else's groundwork with Captain Britain. It doesn't matter how good a writer he is, he rarely comes up with his own original concepts; he needs others' to do the conceptualisation for him.Phil Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680058800847509275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979663737404474935.post-32111739046009577502010-11-22T23:41:44.813+00:002010-11-22T23:41:44.813+00:00To really appreciate Alan Moore's Swamp Thing ...To really appreciate Alan Moore's Swamp Thing you need to read along with the annotations at http://www.tinyurl.com/readswampthingGregory Plantamurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03561304833692577724noreply@blogger.com