BillyBatson4360 wrote:
fubarthepanda wrote:
But Moore isn't writing "Sherlock Holmes", just as he isn't writing sequels to "Dracula" or the "Invisible Man".  LOEG -- like Lost Girls -- uses pre-existing characters in order to deconstruct popular preconceptions and mythologies.
And Moore also took other preexisting characters - like Superman - and just wrote stories about them.

This may also sound like blasphemy but I don't find LoEG to be either "transformative" or a "deconstruction of popular mythology." It was a very clever idea to cobble together some classic literary figures into a (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) super-hero team. That's all. It's brilliantly done! It's wonderfully written! I will keep purchasing their adventures as long as Mr. Moore continues to write them, but it's not much different (on a foundational level) from any well-written super-hero team book of the modern era.

Clever? Yes. Well-written? Superbly so!  Transformative? Not so much.  Deconstruction? Not as I understand the term.
In LOEG, Moore's taking well-known characters from Victorian literature and deconstructing the popular notion of them by layering real-world personality traits on them, no different then what he did in Lost Girls and Watchmen.  So, Moore's following through with answers to questions like what would a young woman who survived a vampire attack grow up to be like, what would happen to the mental state of an individual who has lost his physical presence, what would happen to a man who has seen everything the world has to offer, etc.  The plots are somewhat secondary, even the concept of an actual team becomes unimportant as the series progresses.  But, with a lot of Moore's work, you can take as much or as little as you want from it.

In terms of the quote(s), the full interview is here:

http://www.bleedingcool.c...hmen-2-to-adi-tantimedh/

(edited for spelling...)

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