Comic moments that made you feel weird

Seeing all those Harry Potter characters being slaughtered by Harry himself always made me feel something strange. Not quite sad and not quite repulsed, but a little bit of both

That's why you don't lie to the Antichrist.

shit, hermione crying for her mom always gets me. alan moore is great at doing this fucked up stuff without looking like a complete edgelord

That time Jamie Madrox ate himself and became a legion of Wendigos.

Alan Moore can be a bit edgy he did make a book about lovecraftian fishman rape

This is fucking stupid if anything. Harry Potter as the anti-christ? Sounds like fundamentalist bullshit co-opted into an edgy expression.

Moore is losing his touch.

it's supposed to be a commentary of the editorial world post-harry potter, where everything must be easy to read, with little substance and a plot that can be indefinitely dragged as long as it's popular. in the eyes of any respectable author that managed to publish anything before that, harry potter truly is the antichrist.
i do agree that alan moore can be a bit of an edgelord sometimes, though.

I don't see the correlation between a changes in editorial mandates as informed by the population has anything to do with the Anti-Christ.

It's heavy handed bullshit that ultimately doesn't understand the context of the biblical anti-christ and tries to bring meaning to the subversion of literary characters, like the rest of the League stories.

What the hell is this from?

I loved this scene.
I've always hated Harry Potter.

Century 2009. It's a pseudo-sequel to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

I thought the one crying for her mom was Ginny, and Hermione's the one with the stupefied face in the last panel.

>where everything must be easy to read, with little substance

Uhh, how is this Harry Potter's fault? Of course shit that's not easy to read won't become popular with normies, and normie children at that. Was the Wizard of Oz hard to read?

>a plot that can be indefinitely dragged as long as it's popular.

??? How does this apply to Harry Potter more than any other plot? It was very clearly set up to last seven books from the start.

Alan Moore is a fucking clown.

I don't think his criticizing the whole editorial industry while his plans are to write more books.

My vision about this comic was the innocence of some cultural works to ignore how childhood trauma can make people psychopaths.
Basically almost "hero" lost his family. Not everyone turn the things right after that, without the proper support ( which Harry lacks in most part of his life), someone can become anti-social.

This. I also thought that Moore's use of Harry Potter as the Antichrist was related to the normalization of violence in children media. In the source material, a lot of people die gruesomely and the whole story stands over a cornerstone of violence. Whether it's Harry's parents, or most of the Order of the Phoenix, or the existence of the forbidden spells, all characters that die in the story do so painfully and most die unceremoniously. This phenomena in children media is something that's only been going on since the late 70s, hence why Moore inserts a monologue after this page where the characters talk about the corruption of culture and fairytales. I think this is the reason why Moore makes a parallel between Harry Potter's violent backstory and school shooters. Harry Potter even tried to an hero after killing everyone in Hogwarts but couldn't because he's immortal.

>My vision about this comic was the innocence of some cultural works to ignore how childhood trauma can make people psychopaths.
Was this really the best way to make that statement though?

I've never read that one, but yeah, Harry Potter is an easy target. This is real phone-it-in level laziness. At least Unwritten put some effort into tearing a strip off of Potter.
Why hasn't anybody collected the bodies? Isn't the land property stands on worth something? Anything set in Yea Olde England can't seem to stand vacant for more than 6 months without it being sold for a purpose, or torn down for cooking-fire wood. Oh, right, you need to leave the grisly corpses there because: lowest effort jabs.

>implying Moore even knows who Ginny is

It's actually because Harry also destroyed the 9 3/4 train and killed everyone on board, rendering the only access to Hogwarts unusable. But I do agree that some of the things from Century 2009 are just low-tier jabs.

Obviously, Alan Moore hated how much more money JK Rowling was making from the Harry Potter series, so he lashed out at her and her work in "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as a means of saying "Naff off with your crusty womb."

Especially with the ending, it is on the level of those deviantart comics where character from series A beats up character from series B to show how much better series A is, but because it's Moore throwing the tantrum instead of some 13 year old people bend over backwards to inject it with symbolism and significance. Harry Potter isn't great but this is hilariously petty.

>rendering the only access to Hogwarts unusable.

But that isn't the only access to Hogwarts.

I felt annoyed when reading that. I thought pretty much everything about the last series was lazy as fuck, from making Voldemort a teacher at Hogwarts so Harry could become the Antichrist to Mina being put in an asylum for a century just to get a time-skip. With all the attention that was paid to all the other literary characters being included it was stupid as fuck to include Voldemort as a rapist hippie guy attending a muggle music performance, which doesn't fit the character in any conceivable way. Moore clearly doesn't give a shit about modern literature, but that should have kept him from writing about them. He should have just kept the League in the victorian era.

And fuck that shitty character Orlando getting so much limelight while Quatermaine gets left out. Literally the only good part with Orlando is him talking with the other immortal soldier after he went on a rampage.

>Alan Moore hated how much more money JK Rowling was making

The man who refuses money from the movie adaptations of his own work and gave all the money form the Marvel Miracleman reprints to the family of the original creator

>This phenomena in children media is something that's only been going on since the late 70s, hence why Moore inserts a monologue after this page where the characters talk about the corruption of culture and fairytales. I think this is the reason why Moore makes a parallel between Harry Potter's violent backstory and school shooters.

He thinks Harry Potter of all things was excessively violent? He thinks it was excessively violent compared to FAIRY TALES? If this was actually his intent then he is a stupid ignorant hypocritical piece of shit on a scale I can scarcely comprehend. I'm having trouble believing it, because by all accounts he is fairly well-read so I don't see how he could hold an opinion so viciously at odds with reality.

I fucking hated how dumb they depicted Madrox in this timeline, almost like a special needs child, not quite a retard. Like, if he somehow had become retarded for some reason this would've made a lot more sense.

Jesus, there's a really angry HP fanboy itt. I don't want to give away any (You)'s for free though...

I have a fairly neutral opinion on Harry Potter. It's a solid adventure series for kids but there are plenty of legitimate ways to criticize it. "It's too violent" or "it was popular with kids instead of Tolstoy" are not valid criticisms. I hope you're just projecting your own malformed and degenerate opinions onto Alan Moore and he hasn't actually fallen so far, because those are honestly things I would expect to read from a priest in the 1950's.

So, who's the one calling him a little shit?
Anyway, part of me always wanted to see more of the HP world in LOEG, given the nature of the series to take more from the books than media adaptations. that said, it does feel like the portrayal of it in the comic, from the brief snippets we see, does take a lot from the movies aesthetically.

>that feel when modern Alan Moore's opinion on media is indistinguishable from Fredrick Wertham

>So, who's the one calling him a little shit?

Moore's old teacher, probably.

>alan moore is great at doing this fucked up stuff without looking like a complete edgelord

Sure, not a *complete* edgelord.

At least we got Mary Poppins being a manifestation of God itsels

Alan Moore is a hack everyone knows this

>bitch couldn't appear before Allan died

Fuck that shit.

The Nemo stories are so much better than Century.

Does the Riddler still have this attitude? it'd be nice to have a villain who's doing it for fun and not to outright hurt people

HP is not to my taste, but Moore is such a goddam tryhard. Shit like this and his carefully constructed answers to softball interview questions.

>That Snape expy

>"It's too violent" or "it was popular with kids instead of Tolstoy" are not valid criticisms.

Correct.

Those, also, are not the criticisms made by Moore in those pages. I believe in fact that there is no ill will towards the HP franchise, rather he's commenting on how it's interesting that the media's exaggerated original reaction to the books (they did call him the antichrist and burned his books) can be actually set up to coincide with the true plot of the books, if you fiddle around with it. That is, through enough vitriol and misinterpretation you can turn around anything to fit an agenda.

Full disclosure, I have never read the books, I've caught glimpses of one or two movies.

>the media's exaggerated original reaction to the books (they did call him the antichrist and burned his books)

That wasn't "the media", that was a bunch of subhumans in flyover states. Barely worth mentioning imo.

It sucks, but I see where he was going with it.

Rowling: It's a magic school! Only set in modern times, with elements of the modern world given magical twists, like a magic doubledecker bus!

Moore: So... you've given lethal weapons to teenagers, and are saying it's got one foot in the real world. And the school massacre is where...?

This one's a bit on the nose, but it hits all the right parts on that sense of loss with the end of the silver age.

>Subhumans in flyover states
>Barely worth mentioning

Remember when they elected the President of the United States?

Alan is a bitter cuckhold who hates it when bitches get ahead of him

>the media doesn't fixate on controversies to fuel their ratings

Dude. This was also the time of no social media, I don't remember if I had a cellphone when HP first appeared, this was all on the media.

I just realized a plothole in this.
>You've all fucked with me for the last ti-
>Petrificus Totalus!

And it is through full bodily paralysis that Hogwarts has gone its entire history without a wizard shooting.

Considering Moore's an occult magician, wasn't he offended by how Rowling treated magic?

Harry Potter is the Antichrist. That's the joke. Remember retards saying he was and that the books promoted witchcraft and satan worship? The joke here is that they were right.

Also that Moore thinks they're shit and that Mary Poppins is way better, but mainly the first point. It's not hard to grasp guys.

Well, he co-ops other writers characters for his stories but bitches about before watchmen. We already knew he is a fucking hypocrite

Trump tards are a distinct phenomenon.

Moore's whole magician bullshit is him just fucking with gullible people and stroking a meta boner.

I always hated that Gaiman story. "Oh noes, villains are KILLING people, why can't it be like the silly Adam West show where the villains know they'll never hurt anything?"

Like, I love the Adam West show, and let me tell you, that reads like something written by a guy that never fucking watched the Adam West show. When the Riddler thought - genuinely had no doubt in his mind - that he was looking at Batman and Robin's corpses, Frank Gorshin's Riddler gave a perfect imitation of a man creaming his pants in pure ecstasy. The Adam West villains reveled in murderous sadistic plots. They sucked at pulling them off, sure, but not for a lack of unrestrained "die die DIE, WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!?" style bloodlust.

Harry starts school in 1990 or something like that. He was out of school before school shootings became a huge thing, much less became a thing in Britain.

It just doesn't work to make Harry a school-shooter. It's contrived.

>The joke here

We didn't want a joke. We wanted a good end to the League stories.

What was he doing to MacGonagall??

>It's not hard to grasp guys.

It's not, but remember, there's a lot of Moore hate around Sup Forums, so misinformation is quick to spread. What can you do?

Moore is a beta male who was cucked by a lesbian. He writes stuff like this because it's the only way he can get back at women.

I guess he would prefer if everyone was raped instead?

It's not a Moore comic without at least one rape-panel.

>Cucked by a lesbian
What when that happened?

Prolly coppin' a feel in before roasting her, because Moore is that much of an edgelord nowadays.

He's right, though. Raise children in an atmosphere of fear and punishment and they'll both break and push back at the same time. Do you think that school shootings originated with school shootings, USA? Hell no. It's been a 20 thousand year slog of kids murdering bullies, bullies maiming kids, teachers whipping students, sometimes with whips, stoning, bashings, poisonings, blindings, etc etc. Glad to be part of a generation in a country that's getting their act together. Don't bully in school- the life you save may be your own.
>it'd be nice to have a villain who's doing it for fun and not to outright hurt people
I thought that was why they added Kite Man. The DC writers have ruined or killed everyone in Batman who could crack a smile. Even Harley Quinn.

It might feel disturbing watching Harry slaughter his school, but at least it added a spark of interest to the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though

"No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

School shootings aren't a thing in Britain because kids can't get their hands on guns in Britain. At Hogwarts everyone is handed a killstick as they walk through the front door (so to speak). If you think English youths lacked murderous intent in the 90s, I suggest you don't google "James Bulger" because you're better off not knowing.

Again, very poor execution, but he was taking a piss at the way Harry was magic with "just a touch of real modern times."

Furthermore, its obvious Gaiman wasn't really reading Batman comics, he really only watched the 66 show. And while Batman comics weren't entirely dark-dark, they weren't entirely fun romps, even in the 50's. and 60's. People like to post the covers with batman meeting aliens or rainbow suits, but you know what else was a 50's Batman plotline? Batman finding out his parents' murder was a coordinated contract hit and tracking down the man responsible for calling for it. And it wasn't long after Batman 66 that Joker was actively killing people again. Furthermore, the threat of killing always hung over the villain schemes in both the TV show and the comics. In the first Joker episode, the cops are alls cared shitless of him because he's a murderer.

He tried to have an open relationship with his wife and she left him for a woman.

The Riddler never had that attitude in anything except that one comic Gaiman wrote. I'm including the Adam West show. See Riddler tried to kill in the Silver Age, tried to kill in the Adam West show, tried to kill in the Bronze Age, modern Age, etc. etc. etc.

People praise Gaiman's story because they get off on the idea of being sad that innocence was lost, but even a cursory glance at the old material is enough to make it obvious the "innocence" wasn't there in the first place. Batman villains have always been a murderous lot.

I think it's legit to pine for more stories where hope wins because the heroes don't give up and things are a little silly and campy with plenty of goofy villains, but yeah. Those villains still tried to kill people a lot of the time, the difference is just that they usually got stopped outside of tragic backstories.

That said, there were plenty of villains with non-lethal but still dangerous master plans a little more often. It seems like all the villains are multiple-murderers now.

>Harry Potter is the Antichrist. That's the joke. Remember retards saying he was and that the books promoted witchcraft and satan worship? The joke here is that they were right.
>
>Also that Moore thinks they're shit and that Mary Poppins is way better, but mainly the first point.

You're right but you have it backwards. It's too mean-spirited so the dominant point is that Moore hates Potter.

Ha, ...... was she at least a hot lesbian?

Harry ends school just a year before the Columbine massacre happened. It wasn't the first school shooting, either. Also, considering the latter LOEG entries seem to incorporate movies and other media beyond literature in its "everything fictional is real" approach, consider this 1960's British movie about a school shooting.

>atlas shrugged
>top tier
enjoy your money-induced proto-iron man sex fantasy, you trumptard

>Atlas Shrugged
>God-Tier
This is an awful list

>that's the joke.jpg

>proto-iron man

It's copypasta with a picture meant to be bullshit.

So what's the continuity like in LOEGM how can Nemo and the war of the worlds Martians exist in the same world where lovecraftian monsters exist, fuck does that mean the Mountain of madness horror is a few melting Icebergs away from killing everyone?

Nah Mary Poppins takes care of them.

He wasn't envious of the money, just angry at the commercialism

well yeah.

Just like in the real world.

Soon.

>since the late 70's

let me introduce you to the brothers Grimm

Fictional worlds frequently contain all sorts of incompatible elements.

Hell, even Tolkien's Middle-Earth has some hints of Lovecraftian monstrosities, what with the nameless things that gnaw the earth that Gandalf says are older than Sauron and Ungoliant with her unclear origin. Also, Tom Bombadil.

>Clifford for President
>anything but God tier

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