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Remember: There's not really a vehicle around now to carry on the innovations Eisner was reaching for. I mean, even Eisner doesn't do The Spirit anymore! There's really no vehicle around now where you can do those wildly experimental stories within that kind of framework. So that became something I enjoyed exploring, and continue to enjoy, with "Greyshirt." -- Alan Moore

( Tomorrow Stories Special #1 )

Also, since I might as well include it here as anywhere, here's the Cobweb episode that was originally intended for TOMORROW STORIES but ultimately got pulled by DC over worry that the lawsuit-happy Church of Scientology would go after them for dissing L. Ron Hubbard. It was eventually published by Top Shelf, unchanged save for a name and palette swap for Cobweb for copyright reasons.

~~La Toile~~ The Cobweb in ( 'Brighter Than You Think' )

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It was taking comic book characters I thought were exceptional and stood out from the herd. I suppose Plastic Man, Fighting American the Spirit... they all stand out in some way from the average super-hero. Those strips have intelligence, a sense of humor, a sense of personal style. -- Alan Moore

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To some degree, I tend to think most super-heroes, at their essence, if you boiled them down, are only a name and a chest emblem. You think about that with, say, Batman. There is no resemblance at all between the avenging Batman originally created in the late '30s to the smiling, avuncular Batman of the '50s, to Neal Adams' taut/tense/grim/gritty Batman of the '70s, or to Frank Miller's Dark Knight in the '80s. These are not the same person. The only thing continuous is the name and chest emblem. And that, to me, is part of the appeal of the character. I mean, who cares about continuity, really? I thought it would be interesting with Cobweb that, yes, we know she's got a sidekick and has a cobweb design on her belt. Given that, we can do whatever we want with the character. -- Alan Moore

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I didn't start Vertigo. I did Swamp Thing and I think Vertigo was an attempt to build off that. When I wrote Swamp Thing, I was just approaching a DC horror book in a certain way because I thought that would be interesting. It was just me and my pre-occupations about sex, politics, environmentalism, and all the rest. There's no reason why they should take my pre-occupations and make them into a line of books written by other people. -- Alan Moore

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I decided, "Yeah, all right, we're going to do a Plastic Man-type character, only make him liquid instead of plastic." We'll also mix Kurtzman satire with Jack Cole in the same way we mixed Simon and Kirby with Kurtzman on the "First American." There was also an attempt to allude to the Max Fleischer animation of the '20s and '30s, the weird early ones, like Koko and Out of the Inkwell, because they had very fluid shapes. -- Alan Moore

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We couldn't do an episode of "Jack B. Quick" in every issue of Tomorrow Stories, as it takes Kevin [Nowlan] a long time to complete one -- and, I've got to say, it takes me a long time to write them, because you have to get yourself into a certain mind set to write "Jack B. Quick." So Scott [Dunbier] suggested Hilary Barta as somebody who could do a strip to alternate with Kevin. This brought me to another of my favorite super-heroes -- along with the Fighting American and The Spirit -- who is, of course, Plastic Man. -- Alan Moore

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Married superheroes are somehow sexier. -- Alan Moore

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In Tomorrow Stories, Alan Moore and Hilary Barta introduced another pliable superhero, in the awesome tradition of Plastic Man: the pigment of the imagination, the smudge that won't budge, the brilliant Splash Brannigan!

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So, I'd been rereading some Hellboy and thinking about to what extent does using the mythologies and folklores of other cultures is appropriative, especially when problematic phrases like "Indian shaman" are used. And then I saw this, which ~~nobody~~ some people would still defend.

Seven pages from the Halloween Special of Hellboy Junior, from 1997. Hellboy Junior in general is just idiotic as opposed to fun like Hellboy comics about young Hellboy, but this, well, see for yourself.

So, have some really obvious racism, transphobia, and hell, throw in sexism! First person to say "Can't you take a joke?" gets a billion pancakes!

( The Ginger-Beef Boy )

Edit: I removed five of the seven pages as per the community rules and I'll cut up the pages to make it more whole later on. I have to run out now, I made dofu fa and am bringing it to a friend's flat for dinner.

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