Alan Moore

• Knows The Score.
• Greatest Living Englishman.
• Comics Writer and Magician; collects occult artifacts, including, apparently, the hammer_of_thor; Bringing this hammer to New York is the quest that drew him out of life as a recluse.

When I was 40, I decided to become a magician, for various reasons. Most people get to 40 and have a midlife crisis, and that’s just boring. They bore their friends by going around saying, “What’s it all about? What’s the point?” I thought it might be at least more entertaining to go spectacularly mad and start worshiping a snake and declaring myself to be a magician. It’s been immense fun.