Alan Moore has rarely had nice things to say about superhero movies, and in a new interview, he’s doubled down on previous criticisms that their popularity is a sign of a culture in decline. Linking the wave of right-wing populism that washed across Western democracies in 2016 with the same cultural attitudes that embraced a half-dozen superhero movies that year, Moore admits that he never watches them — not even something like Joker, which is only marginally superheroes and which wears its Moore influences on its purple sleeve — because he can’t rationalize buying into a system that has so frequently and intentionally failed to do right by the creators responsible for its success.