“I will always love and adore the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable. While Moore is proud of the work that he’s done in comic books, his distaste for everything that surrounds them prompted him to move on to other kinds of writing.
I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.” But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. “There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. “I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up,” he said. Based on Alan Moore's graphic novel of the same name, the series acted as a sequel to the source material, centering on mostly new characters while still being set in the same alternate reality and featuring the returns of Doctor Manhattan, Hooded Justice, Ozymandias and. Moore gets plenty of credit for turning comic books into an art form adults, but he’s not sure that’s what they actually are. After a few years of silence, Damon Lindelof is explaining why he won't return for a potential Watchmen season 2 at HBO. Watchmen Long before HBO mounted a single-season adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen, Moore had distanced himself from his groundbreaking comic after it was widely misinterpreted and. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’.” I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s-to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional-when things like ‘Watchmen’ were first appearing. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. He continued: “Hundreds of thousands of adults lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys-and it was always boys-of 50 years ago.
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