What would happen if Alan Moore worked for DC again?

[Captain Midnight]

What would happen if Alan Moore ever worked for DC as a writer again?

[El Sombrero]

Uhh...what do you mean "what would happen?" What exactly are you asking?

[RoughNTumble]

disaster

because he would be sabotaging them

[B. Kuwanger]

Uhh...what do you mean "what would happen?" What exactly are you asking?

There are options in a poll.

And I say All of the Above.

[Ves]

Rain falls up
Hamburgers eat people
Cats chase Dogs
Babs is retconned out of existance as Betty was always the one true Batgirl.

[stk]

More ranting and complaining because DC acts in their best interests and to the letter of the contract signed by both parties, which is, of course, outrageous.

[El Sombrero]

There are options in a poll.

And I say All of the Above.

I posted before the poll options were there

[Mat001]

Hell would freeze over and there would be a new hockey franchise.

[tony ingram]

More ranting and complaining because DC acts in their best interests and to the letter of the contract signed by both parties, which is, of course, outrageous.

More outraged whining from corporate sock puppets because a creator refuses to roll over and take whatever DC throws at him.

[Desaad]

Impossible, of course.

But I would have quite liked to have seen him take on Superman (even if he's already done his Superman thing on Supreme), and Green Lantern Corps.

Playing around with these 'impossible' scenarios, assuming two books for each, my ideal line would have been something like...(keeping in mind that Morrison has already done his Superman)


Action Comics, by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse, Xander Canon and Gene Ha

Superman, by Neil Gaiman, Frank Quitely, Aaron Kuder and Chris Burnham

Green Lantern by Neil Gaiman, Alan Davis and JH Williams III

Green Lantern Corps, by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil, Duncan Fregedo and Travel Foreman

Batman, by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini

Detective Comics, by Brian Azzarello and Mike Mignola

Legion of Super-Heroes, by Grant Morrison, Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel and Pascual Alixe

Wonder Woman, by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang

Sensation Comics, by Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner, and Ed McGuiness.

The Justice League, by Darwyn Cooke

The New Gods, by Walter Simonson

Flash, by Grant Morrison, Francis Manapul and Cameron Stewart.

Aquaman, by Kieren Gillen and Jesus Saiz

Captain Marvel by Gillen and Skottie Young

Teen Titans by Jason Aaron and Tony Moore

Nightwing, by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee

Batman and Robin by Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke

Animal Man, by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Swamp Thing, by China Mieville and Francesco Francavilla

Justice League Dark by Warren Ellis and whoever.

Mmm, so much fun.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Same as now: many nerds will go on about how he needs to grow up and move on, and stop being so thin-skinned.

And still with no detectible irony whatsoever.

[Batman9]

Rorschach will rise from the ashes to shart on Dan Didio

[stk]

More outraged whining from corporate sock puppets because a creator refuses to roll over and take whatever DC throws at him.

Really? Refuses to roll over? I don't even know what that's supposed to mean in this instance. I know people love to deify Moore, but he CHOSE to sign the contract which very clearly stated who could do which with what. I don't see where rolling over is involved.

I used to love Moore's work. And when the whole bruhaha with DC started so many years ago, I naturally gravitated to Moore's side. But the more that has been revealed about the circumstances involved, combined with the unmitigated hypocrisy of Moore's complaints, has now soured me on him more or less forever. There is no complaint against the treatment and use of the characters he came up with that he is not himself equally -- if not MORE -- guilty of towards other creators' creations. His flippant disregard towards the integrity and intent of other creators' characters, over and over and over and over makes him a worse offender towards others than anyone at DC ever has been to him.

The thing is, I DO agree with a lot of the complaints Moore has made. At least in spirit. But he is the absolute LAST person who should ever be making those complaints.

[Mr. Holmes]

Impossible, of course.

But I would have quite liked to have seen him take on Superman (even if he's already done his Superman thing on Supreme), and Green Lantern Corps.

Playing around with these 'impossible' scenarios, assuming two books for each, my ideal line would have been something like...(keeping in mind that Morrison has already done his Superman)


Action Comics, by Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse, Xander Canon and Gene Ha

Superman, by Neil Gaiman, Frank Quitely, Aaron Kuder and Chris Burnham

Green Lantern by Neil Gaiman, Alan Davis and JH Williams III

Green Lantern Corps, by Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neil, Duncan Fregedo and Travel Foreman

Batman, by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini

Detective Comics, by Brian Azzarello and Mike Mignola

Legion of Super-Heroes, by Grant Morrison, Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel and Pascual Alixe

Wonder Woman, by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang

Sensation Comics, by Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner, and Ed McGuiness.

The Justice League, by Darwyn Cooke

The New Gods, by Walter Simonson

Flash, by Grant Morrison, Francis Manapul and Cameron Stewart.

Aquaman, by Kieren Gillen and Jesus Saiz

Captain Marvel by Gillen and Skottie Young

Teen Titans by Jason Aaron and Tony Moore

Nightwing, by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee

Batman and Robin by Jason Aaron and Doug Mahnke

Animal Man, by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples

Swamp Thing, by China Mieville and Francesco Francavilla

Justice League Dark by Warren Ellis and whoever.

Mmm, so much fun.

With that ridiculously good, impossible line-up of creators, I'm surprised you put Ellis of all people on JLD.

[Desaad]

Why's that? It gives him the chance to write more Constantine, and he does adult superhero action ridiculously well. He's the perfect choice.

And thanks! It's easy when you don't have to abide by the rules of reality. :)