By Rob Bricken in
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Tuesday, Jun. 8 2010 @ 11:33AM
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Tags: Alan Moore, Cthulu
30 comments
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Zann said:
Whoa.
Cthulhu + Alan Moore + Alan Moore's Rage =...
I'm pretty sure the end of this equation will destroy my sanity.
And it will be glorious.
Bunche said:
I just read this and went completely mad. Jibbity jibbity jibbity!!!
Zann replied to Bunche:
But the fact you realize you are mad negates your alleged insanity, surely?
Hezbentaleth said:
Lets hope he wrote it while listening to Dethklok's "Go Into The Water":
We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us, this night is yours
Because, one day we will all be with you in the black and deep
One day we will all go into the water
Go into the water
live there die there
live there die
We reject our earthly fires
Gone are days of land empires
Lungs transform to take in water
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on
We are alive, and we'll metamorphasize
And we'll sink as we devolve back to beasts
Our home is down here, and we've known this for years
We must conquer from the sea, we build an army with water steeds
We'll rise, from our depths down below
Release yourselves, drown with me
We will conquer land with water
Gone are days of land empires
Lungs transform to take in water
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on
We swim on
We swim on
jidasfire replied to Hezbentaleth:
A collaboration between Alan Moore and Dethklok? That's the greatest combination since chocolate met peanut butter. Whoever does these things, make this happen immediately!
DoctorSmashy said:
The two really look alike. What's that website that merges photos together to see what two people's baby would look like? I'm imagining a Davy Jones-type creature.
Deacon Blues replied to DoctorSmashy:
The site is Morphthing, I tried to set this up but it refused to do it because the file names were too long. Screw it.
demoncat said:
i always figured if any one could dare to do Cthulhu as a comic or any love craft story it would be the legendary Alan moore. and he probly got the idea when he learned Warner's wanted to use his take on swamp thing as a movie.
Selaphiel said:
I'm expecting it to be pretentious and boring, yet loved by all the critics and hailed by Moore himself as a masterpiece.
Selaphiel replied to Selaphiel:
I JUST read the interview...
To summarize "Omg, omg. I can't believe I'm working with Alan Moore! Fap fap fap fap."
Darth Shoju replied to Selaphiel:
when has Moore declared anything he's done to be a masterpiece? Got a source on that?
He called "Watchmen" mediocre and "The Killing Joke" bad, for crying out loud.
Selaphiel said:
Also,
Even if Moore could write a decent story, Neil Gaiman is far more qualified to handle the Cthulu mythos.
Diddy_Mao replied to Selaphiel:
It really depends on which angle of the Lovecraft Mythos are being tackled. I agree that Gaiman would be a better choice for pretty much anything that would fall under the Dream Cycle and not just because of his work on Sandman, the themes and feel of stories like "The Cats of Ulthar, "The silver Key" or "Dream quest of Unknown Kadath" are just a perfect match for Gaiman.
Dr Von Klaw said:
This'll be familiar territory for Moore, his beard is an Old God after all.
Al'nn m'rrugh
RubyRoses said:
Really? I get to say it?
I'll be in my bunk.
Liz said:
Alan Moore is Cthulhu's unholy prophet? RULE!!! Seriously, though, can't wait to see this... the art looks gorgeous, and I already worship Alan Moore.
Mad Mutt said:
H.P. Lovecraft was always and ever the compleat ASSHOLE, and I, for one, am damned glad the bastard's DEAD! Fuck him and his God damned little god, Cthulhu, too!!
Diddy_Mao replied to Mad Mutt:
Alan Moore and H.P. Lovecraft are both perfect examples of the occasional need to separate the creator from the creation.
Lovecraft was a racist, classist ethnocentric douche and his personal politics were absolutely terrible by modern standards.
Alan Moore is a hypocritical and petulant dick who can't seem to open his own mouth without making himself sound like a self absorbed ass.
Their creative works, while frequently flawed are completely deserving of the attention and credit they are given.
Mad Mutt replied to Diddy_Mao:
Too bad Lovecraft died 10 years before THIS was invented. He would've made a GREAT Test Subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47
Indeed. Some of Lovecraft's stories are masterpieces of horror. I've loved everything I've read by Moore. Doesn't mean I have to like them as people any more than I have to like Scientology to enjoy John Travolta's deliciously cheesy Edna in Hairspray.
Darth Shoju replied to Diddy_Mao:
"Alan Moore is a hypocritical and petulant dick who can't seem to open his own mouth without making himself sound like a self absorbed ass."
Why, because he doesn't like the terrible movies that have been made out of his stories?
Diddy_Mao replied to Darth Shoju:
To a certain extent...yes that's exactly why.
When he complains about the treatment someone else gives to HIS stories it would help his credibility if the stories he was complaining about having been butchered weren't populated with characters, settings, and plot points lifted from other creative works.
I'm willing to bet that Stevenson nor Wells ever expected nor wanted for someone to write the Invisible Man being sodomized by Mr. Hyde.
Denslow and Carroll probably never expected for there to be an anthology of stories wherein Alice and Dorothy recount their sexual adventures.
It's difficult for me to take a man seriously who complains about the repackaging and regurgitation of his creative works when the entire cast of Watchmen are just old DC and Charlton Comics characters with new costumes.
I love his work, I really do. I've enjoyed everything of his that I've read.
But I still think he's a hypocritical ass.
Darth Shoju replied to Diddy_Mao:
Except that I've read at least one interview with him where he was absolutely fine with the movies made from his works. He was personally ambivilent about them, but he had no real problem with him. It seems to me that the media wasn't really happy with these answers so they kept hounding him until he gave them something juicier. And most of the time I seem to be getting this info second hand. It would be nice to see some direct quotes from him regarding the adaptations.
As far as him using other writers' characters, it seems to me he generally doesn't mind having his work adapted, he just feels that the translations across mediums causes problems that affect the quality of the finished product. In his opinion, the adaptations of his works haven't been done well. I'm sure if the authors he's borrowed from were around to critisize his work, he'd be all for it.
And while you have a point with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Lost Girls, he was working for DC when he did Watchmen, and was told to do something with those Charleton characters IIRC. You can't blame the man for doing his job in that case. Or should every other writer but Stan Lee get pissed on for not inventing Spider-man?
Ms. Duck replied to Diddy_Mao:
two things:
Moore is very bitter about the movies because he got sued in a total bs case over LXG, and warner settled out of court rather then defend him; sometime afterwards Marvel ticked him off over the rights to cpt brittain and he's been mad since.
second, he signs over the rights a nd profits to the movies to the artists involved..thats right, the guiy has given up tens of millions of dollars over his ethics.
would you be willing to do the same?
coughman replied to Mad Mutt:
you know, you're not coming off as much better.
aside from the fact that most good writers are grade-A assholes, Lovecraft was never really VERBOSE with his racism, (especially considering that one of his best friends was gay and he married a jewish woman) and on top of that his thoughts were kind of par for the course of the time.
in short, he really hasnt done anything to warrant your kind of insane hatred.
Mad Mutt replied to coughman:
Why is it that to bleeding hearts, all hatred is "insane"? Is it not possible that the dead asshole EARNED that hatred? I never mentioned racism in any way. You need to learn to separate the thoughts of varying posters. Here's your Last Best Clue to my personal hatred of the late H.P.: "Fuck him and his God damned little god, Cthulhu, too!!".
If that's just too subtle for you, it's the C-word, stupid. I truly HATE all the bullshit brouhaha that has followed from the literary invention of that little turd of the universe, AND I always WILL. Also, considering that I'm not selling anything here, nor writing for fan approval, why should I care how I "come off" to you? I'm merely venting against Ct-lu here because it's allowed.
Anonymous replied to Mad Mutt:
Whether you like Cthulhu or the stories Lovecraft wrote himself, the influence of the mythos and the ideas it popularized are incalculable. The blending of horror and science fiction, threats from other dimensions and other worlds masquerading/being mistaken for or somehow mysteriously linked to the supernatural.
Whether you like it or not Science Fiction and horror today- including the parts of it that you enjoy, would almost certainly not exist without the subtle influence of Lovecraft's work.
That being said I can definitely agree that the man himself was a racist classicist douche Koala, even though that wasn't uncommon at the time.
Kevin said:
And in 10-20 years someone can make a movie out of it, and Alan Moore can disown said movie.
Saustin replied to Kevin:
I think he secretly loves disowning movies even if they are crap. I can think of no other reason why he'd kick up such a stink about them.
rickicker said:
the only reason i'm interested in this is for an origin story of cthulhu where he was once a a down-on-his-luck comedian who jumped into a vat of chemicals and emerged as an elder god.
i'm just sayin'.
