Okay, so I love Alan Moore, I could defend him and sing the praises of Top Ten and Tom Strong and the like till I'm blue in the face, but this is just bizarre and egotistical, for him. Normally I'd defend his bashing of the Big Two because I do genuinely see him as being wronged by them in quite a few ways.
But to accuse DC of just reusing his ideas? I thought that was the entire point of continuity and having a developed history for a character and a universe, that one writer comes up with the original idea and then later writers use that and build their own stories on top of it? For Moore to say stuff like this is also to imply that he shouldn't be able to use characters like Hal Jorden and Batman and the Joker, in the eighties, isn't it? Or am I misinterpreting what he's saying?
Because all I'm reading is that he's moaning about Johns being inspired by his work when he himself says he was inspired by the books he read as a kid.