Coping Mechanism

A blog about everything by Jack Baty

Alan Moore on comics and fascism

I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.

-- Alan Moore in Watchmen author Alan Moore: ‘I’m definitely done with comics’

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