Because we do need protest movements now, probably more than we’ve ever done before. But I’m heartened to see that it has been adopted by protest movements so widely across the world. “I can’t endorse everything that people who take that mask as an icon might do in the future, of course. The mask drawn by David Lloyd in Moore’s V for Vendetta has been adopted by those making anti-state protests across the world, something Moore greets with cautious approval. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.” But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. Critically acclaimed author Alan Moore redefined graphic novel story-telling with Watchmen and. “I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up. Book Condition: New Publisher: DC Comics, September 2018. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’. 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. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. “Hundreds of thousands of adults 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. NewsNation Signs Mick Mulvaney As A ContributorĪnd 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.
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