Friday, September 04, 2009

AM On MM

Stuff like this is pure gold to fans like me: Alan Moore finally speaks about the Marvelman situation. When you hear his side of the story - granted that it's only his side - then you begin to understand a little better why he became so disenchanted with the character, despite his great work in Warrior and on the Miracleman series from Eclipse. Rightly or wrongly, Moore feels that he was lied to, in significant ways, at each step along the path.

Also interesting is the revelation that his name may not be on the work if/when it's reprinted by Disney Comics. I'm not sure what that means, even: not on the covers (which would be easy enough to accommodate) or completely omitted from the credits inside the books? While you can do something in a film like say, "Based on the graphic novel series by Dave Gibbons" (as happened recently with Watchmen), I'm not sure how you reprint a comic series that previously contained credit boxes with Moore's name in them. White them out? Substitute "Alan Smithee" in his place? Give the artist credit as the writer? It's just one more unanswered question (for the moment) in the Marvelman saga...

1 comment:

Boneman8 said...

Will they change his name to DisneyMan??