I can almost understand why many comic book readers side with the company over the creator. I still, in some ways, identify more with being a Marvel reader than a DC reader even though I know that that means nothing. Now, I feel proud when Fantagraphics does well (in the same way, I imagine, that a sports fan feels proud when their team win). Of course, thats stupid.
What I don't get is the hard on that many comic readers have towards the law. Since DC didn't technically break the law, what they did to Alan Moore is okay. Whats funny about this, is that a large part of me realizing the disconnect that sometimes exists between morality and legality came from a steady diet of super hero comics growing up (well that and the number of potheads I have as friends). Super Heroes, especially by the 80s, were breaking the law all the time in their purist of doing the right thing. Corporations were the bad guys who were protected by corrupt governments. But somehow, many readers want to ignore that and call DC the good guys for taking advantage of yet another creator.
