Alan Moore habla de Watchmen

La revista Wired entrevisto al Mago Alan Moore acerca de su creacion Watchmen, proxima a estrenos en cines. Pero como Moore la tiene mas clara que Delia, se las ingenio para hablar del cine, de la crisis economica, del papel de los comics y todas esas cosas que le salen tan bien al amigo.

Lo que mas me impreciono fue la foto de el y de Gibbons, que saliern publicadas en Cultura Impopular, que tambien la tradujo una buena parte.

Gracias a la Carcel de Papel por el Hallazgo.

I don't actually think that anything is, at the moment. I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype. I've been distanced from the whole concept for quite a while now, but I've been considering it.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon. Yes, we have had knockoffs of American superheroes originating in this country and presumably in other parts of the world, but they're not natural to this environment. They're an alien species. And I've thought about it and wondered why that was. And I wonder—perhaps this is being too simplistic, I don't know, but I wonder if the root of the emergence of the superhero in American culture might have something to do with a kind of an ingrained American reluctance to engage in confrontation without massive tactical superiority. I mean—does the term 7/7 mean anything to you at all?

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