>>149287333 (OP)>Genuinely unironically what's the justification for this?Firstly that comic is bait and has been posted here a lot. It is 100% wrong. That is the issue here. People don't read in-depth interviews that Alan Moore did over the years, they focus on bait. The one quote on Rorschach people post is the one where Moore was, in context, talking about certain fans who are a bit weird. But this weird narrative has formed that "Moore didn't intend for Rorschach to be heroic or for people to like him." Moore did intend for Rorschach to be heroic his issue specifically is people who take their worship too far because that misses the point.
I find the relationship people have with Moore to be fucking weird because on the one hand, people cling onto his work like a life raft to defend their comics as mature or interesting whilst on the other hand they constantly shit all over Moore to feel clever themselves whilst outing themselves as idiots.
>>149287915Moore actually majorly respected Ditko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwDnhMO8is
Alan was interviewed in this a few times and talks about Steve Ditko.