Alan Moore Frank Miller Colaboration in 1986

In 1986 Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, Frank Miller wrote and drew The Dark Knight Returns. These are the two most celebrated works of comic fiction ever made. So, what if the two of them got together and created a single comic that was relased in 1986?
 
would the two of them even get along?
Moore liked Miller's 'art of Frank' but called 300 'stupid, Racist and Homophobic'
don't think they'ld get along very well.
 
Between the two of them, I lean so much more towards Alan Moore it's not even funny. Bad Alan Moore is some of the ABC work: maybe self-indulgent, maybe not as clever as it thinks it is, but it's readable. Bad Frank Miller is "Dark Knight Strikes Again" or "All-Star Batman": both of which make me cringe just thinking about them.

Still, words are Alan Moore's specialty and Frank Miller's Achilles' heel. I could see them agreeing to a collaboration, but it would ultimately be Moore mercilessly skewering every cliche Miller holds dear.

A Grant Morrison/Frank Miller collaboration might be more viable: Grant Morrison believes in super-heroes in the way Frank Miller does, and that Alan Moore doesn't. Also, I think they both love surreal imagery in a similar way. I can see a Grant Morrison riff on "Ronin" or "Give Me Liberty" (my favorite Frank Miller stories) that would be pretty neat.
 
Between the two of them, I lean so much more towards Alan Moore it's not even funny. Bad Alan Moore is some of the ABC work: maybe self-indulgent, maybe not as clever as it thinks it is, but it's readable. Bad Frank Miller is "Dark Knight Strikes Again" or "All-Star Batman": both of which make me cringe just thinking about them.

Still, words are Alan Moore's specialty and Frank Miller's Achilles' heel. I could see them agreeing to a collaboration, but it would ultimately be Moore mercilessly skewering every cliche Miller holds dear.

A Grant Morrison/Frank Miller collaboration might be more viable: Grant Morrison believes in super-heroes in the way Frank Miller does, and that Alan Moore doesn't. Also, I think they both love surreal imagery in a similar way. I can see a Grant Morrison riff on "Ronin" or "Give Me Liberty" (my favorite Frank Miller stories) that would be pretty neat.

hm....Morrison..urgh.

so who would be a good choice to team up with Moore?
there's not many....options. maybe mark waid?
 
Neil Gaiman. He used a lot of Moores "Swamp Thing" work in "Sandman". A collaboration grounded in DCs supernatural characters might not have been out of the question.
 
If it's artists collaborating with Moore we're talking about, really just about anyone works because Moore writes such incredibly detailed scripts. The problem with Moore is evidently that he needs people who can take a backseat to his vision, which is more often than not incredible: even Promethea, which may not work so well as a story, is an amazing concept and I loved every issue because I knew I was going to get blown away.

Personally, a writer's collaboration between Moore and any of that next generation of "British invasion" authors doesn't work because they all overlap (Gaiman) or conflict (Morrison, Ennis, Ellis) with Moore's vision of things oe have their own ideas they want to get on the page.

The collaboration I personally would love to see would be Moore and Mike Mignola. We know from Watchmen what happens when Moore is paired with a great artist who thinks cinematically. Mignola is another such artists.

And what, no love for Morrison?

The Invisibles? All-Star Superman? We3? Flex Mentallo, Man of Muscle Mystery?
 
Moore and Mike Mignola

My dream team without a shadow of a doubt, though Mignola's artwork is so caught in my mind as being atached at the hip to his writing (seems obvious but you know what I mean), that having Moore's words and plot instead would be strange first time round.

Still certainly a dream team and Moore is quite the fan of Mignola, and unless I missed Mignola's burning hatred for the bearded Northumbrian, I think its mutual. So a possibilty indeed.

As said Moore and Miller is a match made in hell. Miller's good at what he does but what he does is what Moore lampoons, attacks and inverts in his own writing. His testosterone laden heroes are certainly not Moore's cup of tea (his incarnation of James Bond as a shifty, backstabbing, would-be rapist says it all really). A gnostic high-concept Northern hippie and a New Yoiker pulp fiction writer isn't a good mix.

Also despite loving Miller's best work, I do dislike the fact that Alan Moore often gets loaded with the responsibility of ruining comics by making them 'mature'. This is partly due to the fact plenty of his work has been child-friendly adventure romps, but also that the vast majority of mediochre writers & artists who inhabit this new mature world of comics seem to take a lot more from Miller's ultraviolence. Again this isn't his fault, and there's plenty of pretentious pseudo-philosophy flying round thanks to Moore's influence but eh.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the greatest thing ever and the VERY end of Dark Knight Returns sucks (well its a silly twist at the end of a great story at least) so I'm bias towards Moore over to Miller.
 
My dream team without a shadow of a doubt, though Mignola's artwork is so caught in my mind as being atached at the hip to his writing (seems obvious but you know what I mean), that having Moore's words and plot instead would be strange first time round.

Still certainly a dream team and Moore is quite the fan of Mignola, and unless I missed Mignola's burning hatred for the bearded Northumbrian, I think its mutual. So a possibilty indeed.

so, now what seems to be the most likely project?

Between Hellboy and League of Extrodinary Gentlemen, we've got potential.
 
And on this we agree, my friend. I've been a fan of Morrison since Doom Patrol #19 (I'm ashamed of how long ago that is). And I've absolutely loved the great majority of his work. And some of his best stuff has been work that he's done very recently like Seven Soldiers and All-Star Superman. But both Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis are just awful. I think editors have a problem saying no to him, and so in places someone might have exercised better judgment than he did (the Question was bizarrely out of character in Final Crisis, I think, among other problems) no one was willing to do so. And his disappointing performance in Final Crisis is made all the worse by comparison to just how far Bendis knocked it out of the park with Secret Invasion.

the end of Final Crisis feels like a cop-out to me.
 
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