V for Vendetta: Have A Pleasant

MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: A FOR ALAN, Pt. 1: The Alan Moore interview

We’ll probably see V for Vendetta, the movie. Which is apparently fast-and-loosely based on Moore’s original premise, but the American comics-and-movies industry have screwed up Moore’s original vision. Keep in mind that the original has anarchists vs. fascists in the near-future tale, not Redstate vs. Bluestate.

Moore has demanded that DC take his name off books and movies and stop sending him money, but they keep paying him.

Also, they send him advance copies of books with poorly edited back copy:

I have to say, the editorial standards in the comic industry these days are nothing that any proper editor would ever recognize as such. Most of these people—I mean, I wanted to be a writer or an artist ever since I was a child. I know most of the people in this industry, they wanted to be artists or writers since they were children. I don’t know anybody who wanted to be an editor as a child. Or don’t know anyone who honed their editorship skills and then got a job. All I mainly know is people who have got perhaps no marketable talent and who sort of drifted into the industry and found themselves in editor jobs. This is perhaps a bit of a slur on editors in general and there are some very good ones. But I hadn’t even take the cling film of that V for Vendetta book and on the back cover in bold type, it’s got the catchy phrase, “Have a pleasant…” [The copy has since been corrected to say “Have a pleasant evening.”] I mean it’s…it seems to me, I’m perhaps overstating, that nobody’s even looked at this book at any stage during it’s production.

The Beat: Hm, I just happened to get that book myself and took off the shrink-wrap, and now I’m looking at it. “Have a pleasant”…

Moore: Well, I think this is my basic message to the American industry at this moment. [general laughter] “Have a pleasant.”