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Alan Moore and the serious repercussions from his lack of interest in scatology.

Comic book writer Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tom Strong) gives an interview in The Onion A/V Club about his new three-volume hardback epic, "Lost Girls". The books are about the sexual awakenings of three well-known females in literature: Wendy Darling from "Peter Pan", Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz", and Alice from "Alice in Wonderland". In the 2nd section, he said:

There's not a lot of scatology in Lost Girls, because… well, to say that it wasn't anything that appealed to us is not to put it exactly correctly. Because there's lots of things in Lost Girls that don't appeal personally to me or Melinda [Gebbie, the artist and now Moore's fiancee]. But there were things that we had to find some way of getting interested in, in order to make them arousing. We had to be, to some degree, aroused ourselves, or it wasn't going to be interesting to the readers. But things like scatology were a bit beyond the pale, and we just couldn't find a way that we could get even vaguely interested in it. Sorry, all you scat fans out there.

"Scat fans" around the world are disheartened by this statement. Dexter Franchista, Director of Media Relations for the American Scatology Society (A.S.S. - And no, I won't give the link because my grandmother reads this blog and I don't want her accidentally clicking on the link, seeing the very graphic index page, and having a heart attack) said, "This was a very surprising statement because we had been seeking an endorsement from Mr. Moore for several months, and while he never committed support to the scatology cause, he never expressed a lack of interest, either."

Susan Ropple, President of the Kenosha, Wisconsin, chapter of A.S.S., is so upset that she has vowed never to buy any more works by Mr. Moore. "He says he's working on a really long novel [Jerusalem] that he says won't be out for a couple of years. Unless there's really hot scatology on every other page, I won't even stoop to using it as toilet paper."

Has Mr. Moore lost a sizable segment of his audience? Who really gives a s**t?