Rob Liefeld, Warchild and Awesome/DC

Another article is making the rounds on the internet with Moore saying disparaging things about superheroes and American culture. However this time, Rob Liefeld chimed in on social media with this:

There's a few interesting things that come up from his post. First is the recording of conversations with Alan Moore. Liefeld recorded Moore's pitch for Warchild. Written shortly after Moore saw Pulp Fiction for the first time, it's a knights-of-the-round-table concept set in a Tarantino-esque inner city gangland setting. But don't get too excited, according to Eric Stephenson, Moore never finished the limited series and two scripts were left undone. You can read more about that here.

Second is how much Moore got paid. I'm not into speculating on Moore's wealth, but it's interesting that with all the scripts and pitches that went unproduced (four Youngbloods, two Glories, two Warchild, pitches for The Allies, Prophet and New Men), Liefeld has/had $80,000+ of Moore work that he never did anything with.

Finally, Moore was rightfully wary of DC. According to a couple of sources, while Alan was working for Awesome, there was an effort (I believe from inside Awesome) to do a crossover with DC, which Alan wanted no part of. There was also talk that as times got bad for Awesome, that Rob could sell the company to DC (as Jim Lee later did with Wildstorm). Alan continually pointed out that he wasn’t under contract and could walk away from Awesome whenever he wanted. A lot of these reports are third and fourth hand, so take them with a grain of salt.

Special thanks to Flavio Pessanha for letting me steal the Liefeld post.