To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan MooreI'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.
Alan MooreI increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that's sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.
Alan MooreThe Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
Alan Moore