Alan Moore!

I fell for it too. Guess I underestimated the acidity of BBC control-booth humour.

I finally read Neonomicon, and I have to say, wtf?! Okay, I know it's a horror comic, and I'm not saying - SPOILER ALERT! - rape isn't an issue that can't be dealt with in horror, but I can't figure out any good reason why the series should have such an extended, graphic rape scenes. If Moore just wanted the reader to get what happened to the protagonist, that could've been done in one or two pages, without such attention detail. The only explanation I can think of is that Moore has some kind of a weird rape fetish; the subject does seem to come up often in his comics, though obviously it hasn't been done to this extent before.

I read some analysis online that claimed the whole comic is a meta commentary on how women are treated in American mainstream comics, and this is what justifies the depiction of rape in it. I'm not totally sold on that theory, but even if it were the truth, surely you can get the message across without using what amounts to rape/torture porn. Seriously, after having read Neonomicon, I felt so angry for having paid for this thing that I almost burned the whole comic.

Yeah, my reaction wasn't as extreme as that but I did find it rather nasty without having a particularly interesting story.

In it I noticed that his dialogue is getting pretty lazy these days as well.

What mystifies me the most is, the part in Lost Girls where Wendy faces Captain Hook as he's about to molest here is one of the strongest anti-rape scenes I've ever seen in comics, so I can't for the life of me understand how the same writer could come up with this?

a year or so before it came out, Moore said he couldn't remember much about it because he'd been in such a terrible frame of mind when he'd taken the commission (years earlier even than that) but he thought it was probably very unpleasant and he might not read it himself

That's weird... Weren't Burrows's pages sent to him for his approval before they were printed? Didn't he even want to see what the final product looked like before it was published under his name?

He did it 100% for the paycheck so I'm sure his level of interest was much less than on other projects.

It's funny. "The Courtyard" is a pretty neat little short story. Everything comicswise that's come from it, however, has been...not that great. But even Alan Moore is capable of phoning stuff in, I suppose.

The only explanation I can think of is that Moore has some kind of a weird rape fetish

has Moore ever done a run on a comic that didn't feature a rape scene at some point? serious question.

I mean I love him but I would say yeah dude unequivocally has a rape fetish.

Maybe MIRACLEMAN? It's been a long time, though.

Johnny Bates gets raped by another boy in the orphanage? foster home? wherever it was -- prompts him to turn back into Kid Miracleman.

Is there rape in Tom Strong?

I don't remember one in Supreme either. But it is weird that it's a go-to traumatic trigger for him.

Well, was thinking female rape, but yeah, there's that in...the first or second issue? Slipped my mind.

I think it was #14. During the Totleben run.

Right. It's obviously been so long since I've read those that I should've just kept my yap shut.

Is there rape in Tom Strong?

hmmm good catch. I can't remember one off the top of my head. The whole thing is so lighthearted it's possible he managed to eschew it.

also re: Miracleman - Gargunza rapes/molests the sleeping miracle-woman or whatever iirc (altho I can't remember if this is shown explicitly or just referenced)

but yeah I haven't read those in forever either. I think my brother has the individual issues.

don't remember any rapes in the bojeffries saga

or maxwell the magic cat

or captain britain

or big numbers

yeah, but he never finished that

or warpsmith

or skizz

or halo jones

or top ten

Well there's statutory in Top Ten. And the whole teen sidekick prostitution ring thing.

plus SMAX has rape, and that's kinda Top Ten

so basically all the early British stuff which I've never read and for a long time was unavailable in the US is rape-free. glad we cleared that up

oh right, didn't realise when you said "has Moore ever done a run on a comic that didn't feature a rape scene at some point? serious question" you actually meant "please validate my ignorance"

He's matured into the rape fantasist we all know and love.

lol

Maybe only after he started working in American comics then...

America brings out the rapist in everyone. Just ask Tosh.

Peter Tosh is a rapist?!

"Legalize it"

Peter Tork is a papist!?!

No rape in Killing Joke, just the jolly breaking of a woman's spine.

And of course the rape in LoEG is gay, and the raypee is invisible so it doesn't count.

i thought invisible guy was the perp?

Nah, Mr Hyde totally bum raped the Invisible Man. To death.

yeah but the Invisible Man was the original rapist

yeah, he's raping merrily away in the girls' boarding school

for a long time was unavailable in the US

lol when

in the 80s when I was a kid and couldn't buy them at comic book stores

Mina gets assaulted in the first or second issue of the first series. Or at least threatened to be assaulted by swarthy foreigners.

in the 80s when I was a kid and couldn't buy them at comic book stores

these were out in TPBs from 1986 which iirc was the 80s

No rape in Killing Joke, just the jolly breaking of a woman's spine.

Am I the only one who felt rape was totally implied in that scene, and the only reason Moore didn't explicitly use it was because it was a mainstream DC book and a major character?