As a long-time fan of Moore's work, I'm not quite sure what to make of this essay. Your main argument is based on WildC.A.T.s, one of the few Moore works I haven't read, so I can't say anything about that part.
Now on the one hand, it can hardly come as a surprise to anybody that Moore is a leftist, and since European leftists are indistinguishable from communists to Americans, that's pretty much that.
On the other hand, Moore's V for Vendetta, his anarchist work, started publication in 1982, well before the time you've chosen for the 88-91 crisis of faith you're claiming he had.
And that period of low productivity coincides with Moore's attempt to become a self-publisher. (That period was a time when a lot of creators in the comics industry turned to self-publishing; 1988 was the year of Dave Sim's Creative Manifesto and the Creator's Summit in Northampton.) Moore turned out to be a poor businessman, which shouldn't have been surprising, given how much of a hermit he is. Anyway, Big Numbers failed not because of low quality (I maintain that had it been finished, it would have been his best work) or lack of enthusiasm on Moore's part, but because he had problems with his artists.
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Now on the one hand, it can hardly come as a surprise to anybody that Moore is a leftist, and since European leftists are indistinguishable from communists to Americans, that's pretty much that.
On the other hand, Moore's V for Vendetta, his anarchist work, started publication in 1982, well before the time you've chosen for the 88-91 crisis of faith you're claiming he had.
And that period of low productivity coincides with Moore's attempt to become a self-publisher. (That period was a time when a lot of creators in the comics industry turned to self-publishing; 1988 was the year of Dave Sim's Creative Manifesto and the Creator's Summit in Northampton.) Moore turned out to be a poor businessman, which shouldn't have been surprising, given how much of a hermit he is. Anyway, Big Numbers failed not because of low quality (I maintain that had it been finished, it would have been his best work) or lack of enthusiasm on Moore's part, but because he had problems with his artists.