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Alan Moore On The Killing Joke – "I Don't Think The World Needs That Many Brooding Psychopathic Avengers"

Published Tue, 03 May 2016 02:00:16 -0500

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDj4zGFf4F8

As The Killing Joke is being remade as an animated R-Rated movie by Warners, Alan Moore's comments on the comic he wrote have also been revived.

Such as from Kurt Amacker for Mania.com – a now long abandoned comic book news portal archived by the Wayback Machine from 2009.

Again, it was never intended as a blanket approach for all comic books. It was just an experiment that I was trying, and it worked better in some cases than it did in others. Yeah, Marvelman and Watchmen—those are pretty good books. On the other hand, where I was doing the same things in The Killing Joke, it was entirely inappropriate.

KA: You think so?

AM: I think so. This has nothing to do with Brian Bolland's artwork, which was of course exquisite. I've never really liked my story in The Killing Joke. I think it put far too much melodramatic weight upon a character that was never designed to carry it. It was too nasty, it was too physically violent. There were some good things about it, but in terms of my writing, it's not one of me favorite pieces. If, as I said, god forbid, I was ever writing a character like Batman again, I'd probably be setting it squarely in the kind of "smiley uncle" period where Dick Sprang was drawing it, and where you had Ace the Bat-Hound and Bat-Mite, and the zebra Batman—when it was sillier. Because then, it was brimming with imagination and playful ideas. I don't think that the world needs that many brooding psychopathic avengers. I don't know that we need any.

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