Originally Posted by
Ulysses
Copy paste from another thread, partly because I'm starved for attention partly because it relates to this thread.
"About the Alan Moore thing: My take is that he did curse DC/WB. I know most people don't believe that magical attacks can have real effects but I tend to believe it because of the several thousand years of anecdotal evidence and about 150 years of empirical evidence (god I hope that comment doesn't derail the thread!).
Just suspend disbelief for a moment and let's say curses are real. It would look alot like what has been happening to DC. Creative confusion, controversy at the staffing level (Bob Harras), exaggerated loss of fan loyalty despite there being lots of good stories with the bad, lagging sales, BvS getting unfairly slammed with melodramatic reactions (this sort of effect seems a little less pronounced in the comics), --- to that last point, you'll notice that with BvS and DCURebirth, the positive reviews tend to be well thought out and the negative ones tend to be very emotional (again, more with BVS than DCUR). It just seems DC can't get anything right, bad things just keep happenning and the negativity persists despite best efforts.
You can explain that other ways than with a curse, but other comic publishers also put out mixed quality product but do not get shit on like DC does. At least it doesn't seem like it.
I don't know, it's just one way of looking at it. Seen that way, DCURebirth #1 was Johns drawing a line in the sand. Mounting and counter attack to Moore's grey magic. Johns is attempting to shine the light if you will, to expose the dark force that Moore has cast over the DCU, not with Watchmen but with his public denoncement and character assasination of DC Comics (which is the most common form of curse in magical folklore). It just happens that Watchment was Moore's crown jewel at DC and now DC s basically saying, "fuck you, we own these characters, you are not God, we are gonna do whatever the fuck we want with OUR property". But they are doing so in the nicest most "white light" way possible.
I know I will probably get laughed out the thread. Meh, I get to have an opinion."
So to Alan, this whole thing is like a magical war partly fought in the realm of fiction (trust me, I'm an occult nerd, I've made myself familiar with his views). If he catches any whiff of what Johns did, he is likely to retaliate in a public way.