8 Times Good Comic Book Creators Went Bad!
4. Alan Moore - Crossed +100
Crossed is an ultraviolent, post-apocalyptic story where humanity gives in to its baser depravities — a zombie movie but with serial killers instead of rotting corpses.
Alan Moore is the GOAT when it comes to comic books. A man whose work redefined the medium, he took comics from 'entertainment for children' and elevated them to literature. Books like Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell are considered shining examples of everything the medium could be. Even Moore's work on corporate properties like Captain Britain and Batman remain critical components of those characters' respective mythologies.
Moore working outside the constraints of Marvel and DC on a title known for having no filter or censorship and a publisher large enough to manage book production on a monthly schedule should have been a sure thing. Instead, the book proved to be unreadable.
Alan's main concept was that language would have all but been destroyed 100 years after the collapse of human society, leaving the speech bubbles populated with gibberish and symbols. The idea was that the visual component would carry the load of telling the story. Maybe with a collaborator of David Lloyd or Dave Gibbons calibre this might have worked, but poor illustrator Gabriel Andrade just wasn't up to the task.
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