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Alan Moore joins #Occupy

Following on from his brilliant rebuttal to Frank Miller’s juvenile rant on Occupy, Moore lends his name to the Occupy movement.

“My actual feelings about the ’60s are that, yes, of course we had limitations…We talked a lot of shit, and we didn’t have the muscle to back it up. For the most part, we had good intentions. However, we were not able to implement those intentions. And when the state started to take us seriously and initiated countermeasures, the majority of us folded like bitches. Not all of us, but a good number. We weren’t up for the struggle that had sounded so great in our manifestos.”

The bearded one takes to the streets! It’s a beautiful circle when you think about it. V for Vendetta in the 80s inspires anti-authoritarian icons and symbols in the 2010s, only for the creator to join the fray.

Predictably, that struggle has cropped up again in the wake of last century’s overlooked political and economic inequities, as well the still-new century’s uniquely dystopian nightmares. (Infinite detention for Americans? WTF, Congress?) Moore has rarely missed the chance to lend his name to righteous causes, as his recent support for the late, great Harvey Pekar’s memorial, as well as an excellent takedown of Frank Miller’s Occupy paranoia, illustrate quite nicely.

Moore’s support for Occupy Comics is another worthy piece of the 99 percent’s overdue payback.

“Moore elevated the discussion beyond Miller’s crude vilification to critical topics like governing systems, the madness of derivatives markets, and how currency is used to control populations,” Pizzolo said. “The juxtaposition of the two points of view is fascinating, because it’s so obvious that Moore and Miller are operating on different intellectual planes.”