On Fire: Alan David Doane abandons the "Five Questions" format for a fascinating conversation with Alan Moore about his novel Voice of the Fire and his pivotal role in the history of modern comics:

"Sometimes, on my darker days, I tend to feel that most of my influence upon comics has been negative, that perhaps people who read the early Swamp Thing or Watchmen or a lot of the work that I was doing in the '80s, that what they took from it wasn't its urge to experiment or its urge to stretch the limits of the form and the medium. It seems that perhaps what a lot of them took from it was the violence, a certain kind of intellectual posture...a few other things, and it seemed to condemn comics to a lot of very depressing and grim post-Watchmen comic books. Maybe that's too bleak, like I say, it depends from day to day, it depends what sort of mood I'm in and you've caught me on a tired day today, so, I'm perhaps being a bit pessimistic there."

Go read it. Now.