One of the world’s most admired comic creators has expressed his concern at the crowds queueing up to watch superhero movies in recent years, saying such urges can be “a precursor to fascism,” and …
of his fears for the future.“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 seemovies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.”And he pointed out the time of Donald Trump’s election in 2016 coincided with superhero movies moving to the top of the worldwide box office.
“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.”has been adopted by those making anti-state protests across the world, something Moore greets with cautious approval.
Moore has just published his first collection of short stories, and says he is done with both comics and the huge global industry that he did so much himself to transform. He said: “I will always love and adore the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable.”
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