on Alan Moore, postmodern magician

[zenithblue]

An essay I wrote for my "Metaphysical Messages" class. The original had footnotes, which I don't feel like figuring out how to format in lj, so they're rendered here in brackets and small text (to differentiate them from the copious amounts of parentheticals I seem to use these days). This was written for a comics skeptic, so apologies for anything

Comments

[bedlover]

i love this.

[zenithblue]

Thank you. :)

[musashi270]

I see what you did there, worrying about the didactic. Don't. Just always keep that honesty you have working.

Fantastic

[anonymous]

I appreciate this to great length, I have just been getting into a lot of Moore's work, I've only read Swamp Thing (1-6 trade backs), From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but I would ascribe to the myth that he did perhaps command magic, I felt it especially in Swamp Thing, he did so much, evoked such great cosmic amounts of emotion, with so few words. The length of those 6 trade backs is dismal in comparison to the oceans of thoughts they birthed from my mind.