@Jazzy_Butts @Sp He’s an anarchist and ritual magician these days.

His hatred of comic books is limited almost exclusively to works involving superheroes, and it’s understandable seeing as characters he created such as V were co-opted by alt-right imbeciles who did not understand the work of literature they were reading—if they even read it or know of it. V for Vendetta was the origination of the now-recognizable as fascist trend of wearing a Guy Fawkes mask for acts of anonymized violence. Meanwhile, Moore’s character V hates the fascist regime he lives in and engages in acts of violence against the state in order to bring about anarchy.

Then there’s Rorschach, who was created by Moore to parody superheroes illustrated by Steve Ditko, who was an avowed Objectivist following Ayn Rand’s philosophies. Moore hates Randian drivel—and now he hates Watchmen and has deemed it a failure, since Rorschach remains the most beloved character in the series, for all the wrong reasons.

Moore’s most valuable contribution to Western comic, from my perspective, will forever be Lost Girls, a work of erotica that he ended up marrying the illustrator of after they became increasingly involved in a relationship during its writing. It’s banned in many countries thoughout the world as obscenity, since many of the main characters are children and engage in sex. It was temporarily banned in Canada, but Moore took it to court and, per Canadian law, issued a formal request that a judge read the entirety of the work and decide if, when considered in whole, the volume had artistic merit. The judge did as requested—and he ultimately decided that the work did, in fact, have artistic merit. This restored the book to shelves of book stores in Canada, in theory—although I doubt any of them stocked it. It was rarely stocked anywhere given the controversy, but it could of course be ordered online while in print. This is the only court case I know of at all where an author has challenged a ruling of obscenity against their work in any country.