Nemo: The Roses of Berlin

[superboyprime]

"I remember a review of the Black Dossier which was saying ‘oh, this is all so – there’s all this writing in it, and what’s worse is they’ve even written about the French and German groups as a text story, the foreign counterparts of the League, when Alan Moore must have known that all of his fans, they’d much rather see that as a comic strip than read about it in a text piece,’ which is rather missing the point. We included – there’s no point in doing – we’ve done Les Hommes Mystérieux, we know the details of the story as a text piece. Yes, you could have the League against their evil counterparts, which has been done in every superhero team book since Sgt Fury, included. The thing is the League actually isn’t a superhero team book. I know that for some people, old conventions die hard, and it’s difficult for them to see anything beyond that, but that’s not what we’re doing. It’s a much more literary thing than that, a much more cultural thing, and we’ll continue to tell it in the way that we feel that it should be told." - Alan Moore

Comments

[thezmage]

Yes, Alan, it’s not that they have a different opinion, it’s that they’re weong

[alicemacher]

I don't see anything in the above Moore quote to indicate he thinks they are wrong to have an opinion that differs from his. It's more, "Some readers had this reaction to the way we proceeded; here is my explanation as to why we did it this way and not another."