Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?: Part 1 of 2

[lordultimus]

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[laughing_tree]

"Moore has always insisted that SUPERFOLKS was never a big influence on him, instead insisting that the MAD magazine parody SUPERDUPERMAN was a bigger influence."

On this story or on his work in general? Because I'm specifically talking about how the identity and nature of the Big Bad plays out, which is just like how it does in SUPERFOLKS.

[lordultimus]

From a 2011 interview:

PÓM: Right, the first thing I wanted to ask you, actually, before I get into your own work is, I wanted to ask you about Superfolks. […] Grant Morrison was at one stage intimating that you’d read Superfolks and based your entire output on it.

AM: Well, I have read Superfolks. […] But it was by no means the only influence, or even a major influence upon me output. […]

PÓM: […] I mean, when you read Superfolks, what sort of influence would it have had on you?

AM: I can’t even remember when I read it. It would probably have been before I wrote Marvelman, and it would have had the same kind of influence upon me as the much earlier – probably a bit early for Grant Morrison to have spotted it – Brian Patten’s poem, ‘Where Are You Now, Batman?’, […] and that, which had an elegiac tone to it, which was talking about these former heroes in straitened circumstances, looking back to better days in the past, that had an influence. […] I do remember Superfolks and finding some bits of it in that same sort of vein. […] Like I say, it probably was one of a number of influences that may have had some influence upon the elegiac quality of Marvelman.