{"id":756,"date":"2008-07-17T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/07\/17\/alan-moore-interview-in-entertainment-weekly\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:37","slug":"alan-moore-interview-in-entertainment-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/07\/17\/alan-moore-interview-in-entertainment-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore interview in Entertainment Weekly!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lengthy interview with Alan Moore<\/a> in of all places Entertainment Weekly<\/span>. Turns out The Wire<\/span> and South Park<\/span> are his favorite shows, we agree on the potential of The Watchmen<\/span> movie, and he reveals the plot of the forthcoming League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/span> installment.<\/p>\n

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Whereas The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Vol. III): Century<\/span> [the third installment of Moore’s Victorian-sleuthing comic, due out in April 2009] certainly stokes the imagination. Why make it span three different eras \u2014 1910, 1968, and the present?<\/span>
\nALAN MOORE: [Artist] Kevin O’Neill and I realized we had two or three powerful stories. It struck us that we might be able to link them together and make a three-part narrative, so that each would stand on it’s own and thus relieve readers from any kind of painful cliffhanger between issues. And yet the three stories would link up into an overarching narrative involving the occult.<\/p>\n

How do these three chapters split up?<\/span>
\nThe first book surrounds the coronation of King George, which was also the time The Threepenny Opera<\/span> was set, a comet was passing overhead, and there was a general feeling of dread in the air. We’re also focusing on the occult fictions written around the time…[like] Aleister Crowley’s [1917] book, Moonchild<\/span>, where the protagonists are attempting to create a magically produced child that is going to usher in a new era. [Protagonist] Mina and her associates are trying to stop this from happening. The second book [revolves around] that sort of peculiar 1960s melding of pop-star psychedelic lifestyles, fashionable interest in occultism, and to some degree, at least in London, crime. We’ve got it all centered around a big rock concert at Hyde Park. Running all the way through this is the continuing threat of the production of a magical child who, by this time, we are fairly certain, is the Antichrist. That second book ends very badly. And they’re not having a lot of luck. The third part is set in 2008 when, basically, the League is in pieces \u2014 barely exists anymore \u2014 and this turns out to be the time at which the Antichrist project finally pays off, and this magical child finally manifests in quite a terrifying form.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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WOW! I can’t wait.<\/p>\n

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