Throughout Alan Moore's graphic novel, Light of Thy Countenance, he speaks about television taking over people's lives. Moore talks about how the television is were everyone gets their information. He shows multiple pictures of different historic events: Hitler, Gandhi, the dropping of the "A" bomb, lunar landing. Moore develops a dreary scene during the novel and with the graphics behind all the captions he is able to do more than just write. "Pictures say a thousand words." With the graphics, Moore is able to have illusions and allow the reader to wonder why he added certain pictures. I believe this should be considered literature. It feels like it has the same amount writing as a short story, but it is able to tell a better story because of the graphics.
Moore referred to other literature throughout his novel. Moore makes a couple of Frankenstein references and is able to draw out the comparisons between television and Frankenstein's creature. Moore is calling television a monster and thinks that it is very manipulative.
Moore's ideas are still relevant today because television is still controlling many lives. But for young adults, the internet is starting to overtake the need for television. Internet is were most get their news updates and many television stations are starting to air their shows on the internet instead of television.
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