The creator of cult comics Watchmen and Halo Jones is an occultist, but his love of science shows in the way he plays with quantum characters and consciousness

Alan Moore: comic book guru and convert to eternalist thinking Mitch Jenkins

ON MY way to meet Alan Moore, the creator of some of the greatest comic-book stories in the last 40 years, I take a stroll around Northampton. He has lived his whole life in this historic town in central England. Leaving All Saints’ Church in the town centre, I almost step on a fluffy and bloody chick, fallen to its death from a nest high above. I recall the start of one of his best-known works, Watchmen: “Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach.” What an omen. I’m about …