Although they eff up Kevin O’Neill’s name, decent NYTimes article today on Alan Moore and his still highly contentious relationship with Hollywood. Sure the guy’s a little cranky, but hey, his concerns are warranted and you have to admire the way he sticks to his guns. There’s also a couple nice little reminders of just how funny the guy can be.

THE most vivid characters in Alan Moore’s graphic novels are antiheroes of ambiguous morality and identity: costumed avengers like Rorschach, the disturbed street vigilante of “Watchmen,” or the crusader known only by the letter V, who commits catastrophic acts of terrorism in the dystopian tale “V for Vendetta.”

With inventions like these, and a body of writing that spans nearly three decades, Mr. Moore, a 52-year-old native of Northampton, England, distinguished himself as a darkly philosophical voice in the medium of comic books — a rare talent whose work can sell solely on the strength of his name. But if Mr. Moore had his way today, his name would no longer appear on almost any of the graphic novels with which he is most closely associated. “I don’t want anything more to do with these works,” he said in a recent telephone interview, “because they were stolen from me — knowingly stolen from me.”

Anyway, mark my words, Lost Girls is going to be the graphic novel of the year.

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