Legendary comics writer has Moore power to his art

As legendary comics writer Alan Moore slips into retirement, some of his Irish contemporaries tell Donal O’Keeffe about the genius who had such a huge influence on popular culture

On the first page of Alan Moore’s final comic, an elderly Sherlock Holmes tells the series’ hero, Bram Stoker’s Mina Murray, that fantastical characters like themselves exist to the detriment of humanity. Moore’s meaning could hardly be plainer.