Alan Moore is a man with many talents: writer, wizard, mall Santa, Rasputin impersonator. He is also the co-creator of Watchmen. When DC Comics set up seven different prequel series based on Watchmen, Alan Moore called it “completely shameless“. Now Moore says in an interview that he was offered an enormous sum of money to offer his wizard-y blessings to Before Watchmen. Take a guess how that turned out.
“Well, they asked me if they could give me a huge amount of money to bring out these Watchmen prequel comics — which they were going to do anyway — and that was probably a couple of million dollars. I should imagine with all of the films it would be another few million? In a way it’s really empowering to do that. You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life. Money’s fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it’s useless.” [Left Lion via Blastr]
F*cks given by Alan Moore: still zero.
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Alan Moore: Not a known giver of fucks and crusader against big Hollywood studios. I applaud thee sir.
Also, what’s even better is that D.C can’t even get anything out of him as well, that’s sad, of course I don’t blame him. D.C’s track record isn’t anything worth getting excited about.
Eh, their track record is better than Marvel’s.
I dig me some Alan Moore.
Why do they even bother at this point?
Yeah, it’s cool in the sense of giving a finger to “the man”, but dude could have just said “Sure! The f*ck I care anyways? Gimme them dollars” and then he could have given all that f-u money to a charity or a homeless shelter or sumthin’!
As far as sticking to your principles, this is a shining example and all, but did he even read it? By most accounts, Before Watchmen is an excellent comic. Maybe he would have liked it. Any principle that keeps you from reading something and saying “Yes, this is good” or “No, this is bullshit” seems crazy to me.
According to the opportunity cost principle of economics, he essentially paid two million dollars for that blockquote. He got ripped off.
Alan Moore should have been cast as Radagast the Brown.