Jason Fulton wrote: If you think that Alan Moore producing kid's porn graphic novels is OK.

Actually, I think it's kinda weird. But, I see no harm in allowing people to embrace their inner weirdness as long as no one is hurt in the process.

Well, at least we know Secrest didnt put JZ on ignore.

Edit: Spelling.

I can't believe people would defend him either. I also can't believe the mindset that would be interested in seeing Dorothy from the Wizard of friggin Oz getting her kitty licked. What the hell is wrong with these people???

Casey

Rance Johnson wrote: Just because Luke Cage, or any other character, was originally created as an all ages character, it doesn't mean that other versions of that character can't be explored. Especially not just because you don't like it. There are plenty of people out there who do after all. Who are you to decide for them what kind of content they should read? I would also point out that when something like anal sex occurs with a character, then that character is no longer an "all ages" character. it is a character written for and (ideally) intended for an adult audience.

Quite simply, that's bullshit.  Luke Cage. Entire history=all-ages, mainstream superhero.  One, count 'em, one comic he is depicted having anal sex with another character.  Then he returns to being an all-ages, mainstream superhero.  He's not an adult character.  He's not intended to be written for adults except for one issue.  An issue that uses an all-ages-friggin' character to depict a sexual act. No reason, at all, to do this save that someone thought it'd be cool to write about a superhero having anal sex and how that would play on the mind of the character with whom he was having sex with.  I read the issue, Rance, and I feel comfortable enough with my position with regard to all-ages, mainstream superheroes to say that it was wrong.  Black and white.  Plain and simple.  You don't like it? Tough.

"And on that front, Moore stuck characters he didn't own into a porno
book! I, too, can't believe someone can even begin to defend him!!!"

At least in the US they are all character in the public domain so I don't see the problem.  Seriously, I'll defend him.  He's a writer and this is the story he chose to write.  No one is going to be forced to read it or look at it.  Moore has even explained why he chose these characters.  He sees their experiences as a good metaphor for sexual awakening.  You may not like it, you may find it down right deplorable but it is his right to write this story.

And no I don't care about his stance on his works in Hollywood.  Alan Moore is not writing a GN adaptation of Lewis Carrol's Alice Through the Looking Glass or Barrie's "Peter Pan and Wendy".  I'm all for creative freedom and I am completely against censorship.  The fact that so many people here don't seem to be is a bit sad.

Iron Balls wrote: "If he changed all the names and the characterizations so they were completely new, and not recognizable as avatars of those classic characters, would they even be mildly interesting stories?"

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IMO, that's it in an iron nutshell. A good story should be able to stand on its own, without having to rely on the reader's knowledge of a second writer's work. The type of story being told here (according to what Alan Moore said in the BBC interview) could have been done using characters created by Moore. All this coming of age stuff (whether sexual or not) has been done before, by writers who relied on their own ingenuity to make it work. 

Merely aging a group of characters created by others~ characters whose appeal (and magic) disappears the moment you write them as adults~ is nothing more than a gimmick.

IMO, if you've got a mature story to tell and you want to tell it in comic book form (like "Maus", or "Fax From Sarajevo"), then you just tell it. You don't waste time trying to shoehorn a superhero into your work. It's unnecessary, and it diminishes the story you're telling.

By the same token, taking super heroes~ or little girls from children's fantasy books~ and saddling them with "real world" problems, revelations and realizations diminishes those stories and drags the characters down. They weren't created to be able to handle it.

They don't mix well because they were never intended to. Put them together and you end up with something less; both types of storytelling diluted by the presence of the other.        

IMO.