God, I'm doing a lot of random geek-surfing today! I found this short
www.fandom.com interview from last week. You guys may have missed it:

Michael

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MORE MOORE ON ABC


While Alan Moore was chatty recently, we couldn`t help but ask how things
were going with the ABC line of comics. "Things are great, but sort of
busy," Moore said. "That`s the short answer. I`m still carrying on with all
of them, and that`s still taking up more days than there actually are in the
week, so there`s no change there."


Moore added that while bringing on Steve Moore as a writer on some of the
new ABC titles should reduce his workload in theory, he`s yet to see the
benefits, due to scheduling. "I`m hoping to give Steve more to do, but the
thing is that since Steve hasn`t actually taken over any of the strips that
I`m actually doing, it`s not like I`ve had Steve take a proportion of the
work off of my hands," Moore said. "At the moment, it`s about getting
readers used to the idea of getting Steve writing some of the ABC books,
trying to get the perception that all ABC books are written by me broken
down a little bit.


"But the stuff he`s doing on Jonni Future [a feature of the upcoming Tom
Strong’s Terrific Tales series] is terrific - and a lot of people thought
that his work in the recent 64-page ABC Special was a particularly lazy
pseudonym that I`d come up with, so I guess that means they liked it.
Everybody seems to like Steve`s work so far, so we`ll see how it goes, and
see if there is a way to make the change of inserting Steve into the line as
seamless as possible."


With (Steve) Moore coming in on the main ABC titles, and Rick Veitch
prepping his own Greyshirt miniseries, Moore remained noncommittal on the
idea of the expansion of ABC into a broader line of comics, with various
creative teams handling characters and concepts he created. "As I`ve said in
regards to my long-term, overall master plan for ABC, I don`t have one,"
Moore said. "I`ve never had one, really. I just started writing the first
issues, and watched where it went, and here I am. In instances such as with
Rick, he`s a good writer, anyway, and Greyshirt`s a popular character, so
yeah, I`d like to have more ABC books out there, as long as the quality was
kept up. Having Rick do a Greyshirt miniseries seemed to be a pretty good
way of doing that. It`s a way of carrying on the ABC style of involving the
very best creators, keep up the quality, and have another book out there
every month or every couple of months, and that can`t be a bad thing."


But any expansion will be controlled. Closely.


"I`m comfortable with the idea, but bringing in Rick and Steve are really
one-off circumstances that are unique to the individual," Moore said. "It`s
not like it`s a trend. A lot of the other ABC art contributors perhaps
couldn`t write their scripts, and with a lot of them, I`m enjoying working
with them, and they`re enjoying working with me, and that`s the way things
will continue until something changes. But with Rick, he quite likes the
idea of doing a Greyshirt book, and he`s certainly up to the writing and
providing both his own art, and gathering together the other artists he`s
got involved, which is a pretty stellar roster - Dave Gibbons, Dave Lloyd,
Russ Heath, Al Williamson, and John Severin. It`s going to be a pretty
star-studded little production. I can`t wait to see what he does with it."


And as for fans who are patiently waiting for Comet Rangers, the long in the
works collaboration between Moore and Jim Lee? Keep waiting.


"Comet Rangers is painfully slow at the moment," Moore said. "I didn`t
really envision starting Comet Rangers until I finished all twelve issues of
all of the ABC books, but Jim needed stuff earlier than that, so I got him
two or three pages. I`m trying to get some more done, but I do have limits.
I`ve got the whole Comet Rangers thing planned out, and I`ve got two or
three pages done, and as soon as I can get pages to those artists
immediately for the ongoing ABC books, then I`ll get some more done for Jim.


"It`s very slow progress on my part because there really is only so much
anybody can write in a given period of time. I may do more in a month than
most people, but I have my limits. If I started to rush things, then the
quality would drop. It`s not just a matter of doing all the books; it`s a
matter of doing all the books well. If I was to do them to the average
standard of comic books in the marketplace at the moment, yeah, I could turn
out twelve a month. But to write things like this, I really need to spend
more than a couple of days on them. So, Comet Rangers will progress as and
when I find my time to do it. Until then, I`m afraid it`s being held up by
my tardiness."


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