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I personally think he actively dislikes the idolatry he seems to get and I can actively understand his frustration, at times. If he's so great and has made such contributions to the industry that are still in place today (and without getting into the nature of Blackest Night being based on the vaguest of things he wrote years ago, he did give us Mogo), then why has he been dicked over that frequently? The same goes for treating his ideas as thought they're gospel and then treating him like he's some kind of dirty old tramp psychopath for daring to speak about the way the major companies treat him - which is something that pisses me off royally when I see so-called 'fans' doing it.

That rant aside, that kind-of wasn't my point; I mean, even the Joker calls into question the validity of what we've seen in his 'flashbacks' - it could just be some sappy justification in his head for what he's doing to Gordon, after all, and as such, with the Joker calling into question just how valid his flashbacks are, it makes us question if everything's accurate, Red Hood and all. But.. Yeah. I'm less apprehensive about Zero Year than some because I'm bored of them referencing Year One ad nauseum. The same goes for TKJ - although it's notable DC won't dismiss that cash cow any time soon, not when they can pop out an all too sweet 30th Anniversary Edition and still hype it as being relevant in about four years time. I don't think even Moore expects people to be entirely beholden to the stories he told, frankly.

As for Before Watchmen, with the thread that came up here recently, I admit I thought it was entirely dubious to set something up declaring a work terrible when you haven't read it fully, but the poster justified their opinion well enough, and I think the main problem with Before Watchmen is that it apparently doesn't *deconstruct* those tropes, like the original mini did, but instead basically just tells conventional stories with that world's characters. Good thing? Bad thing? I don't know, because I haven't read it yet. At the same time, I've never seen anyone 'excusing' some of the sketchier stuff in Watchmen - although I may have done it on occasion myself; I've never seen anyone justify the Comedian's behaviour and the things he does, for instance - they've attempted to explain his character - and I thought there were some good attempts to explain him in the Before Watchmen thread from recently - but still, I can't honestly pass judgement on BW until I've read what parts I'm going to read.