Serietidningslegenden Alan Moore har skrivit några av av tidernas mest älskade serietidningar inklusive Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke samt V For Vendetta och som de flesta såklart vet är han inte det minsta förtjust i serietidningsfilmerna som vi bombarderats med de senaste tio åren (primärt). I en nygjord intervju med The Guardians säger nu Moore att seriefigurer och deras berättelser aldrig var tänkt att roa och underhålla vuxna, utan tvärtom.
"Hundreds of thousands of adults are lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys - and it was always boys - of 50 years ago. I didn't really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s - to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional - when things like Watchmen were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying 'Comics Have Grown Up'. I tend to think that, no, comics hadn't grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they'd ever been. It wasn't comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way. I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation - that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities - that can very often be a precursor to fascism." (Go!)
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