Alan Moore attacks America & Britian

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Alan Moore one of the most brilliant comic book authors of all time.

His "Watchmen" is brilliant, his Swamp Thing was revolutionary, his "From Hell" was documentary. If you have never read him and dismiss comics as "kid stuff" you are missing some quality work. He always seems to blow the mind.

One of his latest essays is a rip on the Iraq war.

"Here’s a joke: What do you call an
eight-year-old Iraqi kid with no
arms, surviving family members, or
unblackened skin below his waist? I
don’t know. I was shouting at the TV
and I didn’t catch his name. Don’t
worry if you don’t get it. We’ll no doubt
be telling it again in another dozen
years or so. And still not getting it.

It’s the repetition that grinds us
down. All this Groundhog Day shit. The
history classes of the twenty-second
century, assuming that we can be
bothered to hold one, will hate us for
doing everything twice and messing up
their grades. “So which Bush was Gulf
War II again? Was that the wimp or the
chimp?”

<snip>
"That disaster happened at the 2000
U. S. elections, which many of us might
have mistaken for an episode of The
Dukes of Hazard if only there’d been
a little banjo music playing in the
background. Elected by the slenderest,
some would say actually non-existent
majority, George Walker Bush the
younger obviously needed something
to make him appear legitimate if he
was to hang onto office long enough
to accomplish all that his corporate
backers required of him. Surrounding
himself with enthusiastically prowar
figures such as Dick Cheney
and Donald Rumsfeld (who’d been
recommending an invasion of Iraq
to safeguard oil supplies since 1998),
Deathrow Dubya announced during
the early months of his administration
that the time had come to wage a war
on Terror, taking in such rogue states
as Afghanistan and Iraq."

More can be found at http://www.arthurmag.com/

http://www.arthurmag.com/arthur5.pdf is the relevant issue. Oh that is David Cross on the cover, too bad he doesn't have his DU shirt on :)

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1. Don't forget his "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" made him a bundle.

Certainly not his best work, but ...

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2. Enjoyable

The LXG was enjoyable has plenty of "easter eggs" for those that want to look but like his "Tom Strong" series fun but not powerful. "Top Ten" was better imo.