Local Wizard and Part Time Comic Writer Alan Moore Iis Retiring from Comics

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[quote]After writing some of the most famous and critically acclaimed comic books of all time, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Alan Moore has confirmed that he is retiring from the medium.

At a press conference in London for his latest work, Jerusalem, a weighty novel named after William Blake’s poem exploring the history of Moore’s native Northampton through several lives, Moore said he had “about 250 pages of comics left in me”.
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He added: “And those will probably be very enjoyable. There are a couple of issues of an Avatar [Press] book that I am doing at the moment, part of the HP Lovecraft work I’ve been working on recently. Me and Kevin will be finishing Cinema Purgatorio and we’ve got about one more book, a final book of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to complete. After that, although I may do the odd little comics piece at some point in the future, I am pretty much done with comics.”

The decision came, Moore explained, when he realised he felt too comfortable in the medium. “I think I have done enough for comics. I’ve done all that I can. I think if I were to continue to work in comics, inevitably the ideas would suffer, inevitably you’d start to see me retread old ground and I think both you and I probably deserve something better than that,” he said.[/quote]
[url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/08/alan-moore-confirms-he-is-retiring-from-creating-comic-books]The Guardian[/url]

[MyBumBum]

What a shame. He's left an amazing legacy behind him though, he won't be forgotten.

[butre]

hasn't he retired like 5 times?

[SirJon]

[QUOTE=butre;51024414]hasn't he retired like 5 times?[/QUOTE]

Every time he retires his magical power grows stronger, he's not quite ready yet to try dying which is supposed to be even better

[Turnips5]

I wonder if he'll ever leave Northampton

[buu342]

Coincidentally, I finished reading Watchmen yesterday. I'm sorry guys, probably my fault.

[GayIlluminati]

I don't doubt he'll still make amazing shit. Moore is probably the most odd person I've ever had the privilege of meeting, but that's a story for another time...

[Download]

Didn't he just finish up a Crossed series?

[editline]10th September 2016[/editline]

Yeah, "Crossed +100"

[Deathtrooper2]

Doesn't this guy worship a snake or something?

[Keyblockor1]

[QUOTE=download;51028029]Didn't he just finish up a Crossed series?

[editline]10th September 2016[/editline]

Yeah, "Crossed +100"[/QUOTE]

Warning everyone right now not to go looking for these comics unless you have the stomach and mind to watch Saw cranked up to 11.

Alan Moore is a god among modern artists and his work impacted the medium with each and every one of his pieces. It's a shame to see him announce his retirement.