47 Years Later, Alan Moore's First Superhero Is Still His Most Twisted Creation

It is 1979, and a young artist named Curt Vile has just co-created a truly unhinged underground comic book character, a kind of proto-Robocop meets Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. The artist stands at a career crossroads. Go down one path, and he can become Alan Moore. Go down the other, and he ends up more like Frank Miller , or maybe Garth Ennis.