You know, he really should stop the drugs and dark magicks Dude is not even 60 yet he looks like a 180 year old wizard. I was surprised to learn his age, thought he was much older.
Funny thing he was in a band, just not a big one. It’s called the Sinister Ducks. Alan on vocals and some members of Bauhaus. It also had a b-side called old gangsters never die.
Len Wein was such a talent. He created so many interesting and hugely popular characters. His writing influenced the future direction of many books. And he was a great editor. Huge fan
I wish she had asked him what Swamp Thing sounded like, when Alan talked in his voice. Think about it. If he'd let us hear it, that would be Swamp Thing's ACTUAL voice. As he envisaged it to actually be. I could have reread the whole run with Swamp Thing's actual voice, as the creator intended it to sound, playing in my head the whole time.
And to think it would be fixed with one addendum to the contract being that the rights to Watchmen and its characters would revert to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons one year after the first edition print run of Watchmen 1-12 concludes
He used to look so happy back then. He became kinda angrier after he broke with DC Comics. I mean, here it looks like he's living the dream of his life.
When he talks about writing dialogue by acting as the character and saying the dialogue to hear how it sounds, is exactly what I did when translating the script for Project School Days episodes 8 through 12.
With all the talk about Watchmen and V for Vendetta, it's great to hear to him talk about one of his earlier, and IMO, greatest works. It's a shame that his run on "Swamp Thing" isn't praised as much as the other books I mentioned, because it's just as great.
I feel like in the 12 years since your comment, Swamp Thing has gained a lot of traction with comic book fans. I've always thought it was the most brilliant thing I ever read in the medium.
It's so weird hearing this because it's very similar to my own writing style, always just presumed others did this but to know one of my favorites does as well? Both happy and a little terrified lol
@@anthonychobot2342 I think you meant Jack Kirby and Warren Ellis. I kid (somewhat) of course. Stan was a great filter for the artists ideas and knew how to sell the books better than anyone but I don’t know if I would throw him in the best writers conversation. Anyways what about Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Ed Brubaker, Archie Goodwin, and last but not least, the bane of Alan Moore’s existence, Grant Morrison.
@hypnodance Alan's a very honorable writer, & he was honorable to Len Wein's work. A creative, thoughtful retcon indeed. I loved the fact when Alan made the character realized that he was never a man nor a monster, he discovered that he was going around in circles only to find out he is the cure to all life on earth & beyond. What an epiphany.
Those poor kids! I've read a lot of the swamp things he wrote and they scared the crap out me; let alone hearing your father speak those things or act that way.
@CapNCorn He introduced John Constantine as a character in Swamp Thing too. But I have to admit I am a huge fan of his earlier work, Skizz, and The Ballad of Halo Jones.
She was shown in her first as well as the final House of Mystery, looking adorable. I saw her in person in 2008, and she looks quite attractive for a middle-aged woman.
The House of Mystery issues in question are #292 and 321. #292 ends with Cain (Len Wein lookalike) kicking Len Wein out of the House and Karen Berger giving Cain cookies. 39 issues later, she denounced him as old fashioned, probably never guessing he'd be featured in one of DC's biggest hits of all time.
i think he gets a bad rap as being a bit grumpy. during interviews he does seem a little odd and uninterested but from what i have seen as far as meeting fans and other people outside of interviews he seems sweet.
Even though he looks physically similar now to how he did back then, he comes across as a completely different person in this video than he does nowadays. There's no bitterness, petulance or self-indulgence to be seen in this video - I wonder what he'd say if he saw this today...
The REAL money in Swamp Thing is the comic book drug pushers ...a back issue being 30 years old is a dollar and the new stuff is ten dollars. Paper will wipe you either way, literally.
Yes A.David Silverman. This was his introduction to the industry. The 'bitterness# you speak of NPChilla has not been earthed yet. Check out what Karen Berger says about Swamp Thing at the end of Part 4 (for obvious insight) 4:00 in [this clip] is pretty funny, no? I think he may have grown more serious in his old age. Given his specific career...who'd a'thunk it?
+darkknight07100 I think this was an promo DC put together. I got this as a gift, from someone who had the video on video tape and needed it digitized.
I wonder if it was because I didn't rate this as for or not for kids? Try again and let me know if it still isn't working. I'm not sure what's going on.
@gianmariacaschetto Agreed. And when he seemed a lot less cynical towards others. Like other writers, or creators in other mediums of entertainment, and his America bashing is more of a yawn with its childishness rather than the (de)contructiveness it was in the past.
Don t know, In this case i did It because I had no idea how Karen was way back when, And comic book fans dont have an inmediate chance to know how a person looks like, opposed to celebrities e.g. Be Well.
