Alan Moore revealed that he'll soon be bringing his comic book career to an end. The writer of seminal works like Watchmen , V for Vendetta and Promethea made the announcement at a press conference in London while promoting his upcoming novel, Jerusalem.

There's one more League of Extraordinary Gentlemen story left.

According to The Guardian , Moore said, "I think I have done enough for comics. I’ve done all that I can. I think if I were to continue to work in comics, inevitably the ideas would suffer, inevitably you’d start to see me retread old ground and I think both you and I probably deserve something better than that."Moore won't immediately retire from comics, but he revealed that he has "about 250 pages of comics left" before wrapping up his final few projects. Those projects will include another HP Lovecraft-inspired comic for Avatar Press, the remainder of his work on the anthology series Cinema Purgatorio and the final volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen at Top Shelf Productions (the latter two projects pairing Moore with artist Kevin O'Neill).Though Moore will be retiring from comics, it sounds like the writer will keep busy working in other media in the years to come. "“The things that interest me at the moment are the things I don’t know if I can do, like films, where I haven’t got a clue what I am doing, or giant literary novels. Things I wasn’t sure I’d even have the stamina to finish … I know I am able to do anything anyone is capable of doing in the comic book medium. I don’t need to prove anything to myself or anyone else. Whereas these other fields are much more exciting to me. I will always revere comics as a medium. It is a wonderful medium.”Moore also reiterated his distaste for the superhero-dominated mainstream comic industry, saying "“The superhero movies – characters that were invented by Jack Kirby in the 1960s or earlier – I have great love for those characters as they were to me when I was a 13-year-old boy. They were brilliantly designed and created characters. But they were for 50 years ago. I think this century needs, deserves, its own culture. It deserves artists that are actually going to attempt to say things that are relevant to the times we are actually living in. That’s a long-winded way of me saying I am really, really sick of Batman.”Jerusalem will be released on Tuesday, September 13.

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