Alan Moore, widely regarded as one of the best and most influential comic book writers in the world, has penned a treatise in The Guardian on the rise of "fandom" in popular media and beyond, warning that while it can be "a productive force for good," it has a tendency to toxify into "a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement."
Moore's essay begins by casting back to older comments he made about the rise of superhero movies, originally published in 2017 on Folha de São Paulo and translated and posted to his own site a couple years later. The most famous part of the interview is probably his comment about the "deliberate, self-imposed state of emotional arrest combined with a numbing condition of cultural stasis" among superhero movie fans, but the real fire actually comes a bit later.
