>>111076904Yeah but it's important that within that he still found humanity for all people.
Moore was an actual person who grew up in something resembling actual culture.
Someone said that he liked Ditko.
In a way, yes. But he couldn't stand the guy's politics and the slightest whiff of anything remotely conservative set him off.
That said, he was still more than capable of treating people like Ditko and characters like Rorschach as well-rounded, nuanced, real humans.
That's totally like contemporary writers, like Ewing for example, who aren't well-rounded or nuanced people themselves, so they're incapable of creating characters who are politically dubious but also in some ways heroic
If Moore wrote Watchmen now he'd be pilloried for having a character like Rorschach who wasn't COMPLETELY demonized in the text.
The point is, Moore or any real writer living in a real culture, wouldn't want to do that simply because it'd be BORING.
People act like there wasn't anti-conservative bias in comics till 2015. There was actually a lot of skewed political stuff, but it tended not to matter because there was still a lot of nuance, an underlying respect for the social fabric.
In an early Hellblazer story, Conservatives are shown as consorting with demons. Thatcher's named and shown. It's in a sense worse than any "muh drumpf" stuff of the last few years in comics. But there's still underlying nuance (because ok, the Tories are with the demons, but the whole Constantine mythos isn't actually pro-angel/Christian anyway).
Same with how Ennis treated Christianity in Preacher.
The larger point isn't whether Moore would have liked Rorschach personally, it's that in the '80s there were still writers who could write something with enough nuance to it.
And on the other hand, you can dislike Moore's own personal politics without disliking his writing.
That's also gone now. We've gone full culture war.
Al Ewing literally wants to cut your dick off if he thinks that's "progress".
