Alan Moore on superheroes

Wired Magazine has a great interview with Alan Moore, where he discusses the origins of the superhero as well his current and future projects.

That wasn’t what it used to mean. That wasn’t what it used to mean to me when I was a child. What I was getting out of it was this unbridled world of the imagination, and the superhero was a perfect vehicle for that when I was much younger. But looking at the superhero today, it seems to me an awful lot like Watchmen without the irony, that with Watchmen we were talking very much about the potential abuses of this kind of masked vigilante justice and the kind of people that it would in all likelihood attract if these things were taking place in a more realistic world. But that was not meant approvingly.

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