I was really enjoying this book and was thinking all the hype was justified then 3/4 of the way through the reader is introduced to the Warpsmiths and it become so confusing I didn't know which way was up anymore.I'm undecided if I'll pursue reading the next book, maybe if it just falls into my lap I'll give it a go.

This, for me, was where I began to follow Alan Moore's writing: as originally serialized in the pages of Warrior magazine, in B&W, together with features by others, including Moore's own V for Vendetta.These stories retain their freshness. I'd like to reread all the Marvelman/Miracleman stories, and, amazingly, that is becoming possible in these re-released editions from Marvel.Highest recommendation.

So it's insane I never even heard of this series. I've been reading comics for a LONG time but some I just never heard of. Buddy of mine told me this is Alan Moore's top 3 most talked about series next to V and Watchmen. Well damn, I had to jump on and read it. So this starts off with a very goofy 50's superhero issue. Super cheesy and what you'd expect from comics written then. We then flip to the 80's and learn our hero is reborn! Michael Moran thought he was just a regular dude living his lif...

It took me at least three attempts to get into this more than just scanning it....It had interesting bits, but read a lot like a tweaked version of Captain DC Marvel. Not Carol Danvers....Power words? Kids and separate heroes? Hmm...The bad guy was pure Black Adam. Now I get volume 2 a bit more, Which I mistakenly read first, but meh, not amazing.At the time I'm sure it was amazing, but whatever, Alan Moore isn't God.

Miraculous reading!!! This TPB edition collects the first storyarc known as “A Dream of Flying” featuring issues #1-4 of “Miracleman” (originally published in chapters in the comic book “Warrior” #1-11), plus additional stories “The Yesterday Gambit”, “Cold War, Cold Warrior”, “Ghost-Dance”, along with a “Behind-of-Scenes” section with sketches, pin-ups, cover variants, etc…Creative Team:Writer: Alan Moore (despicted as “The Original Writer”, based on characters created by Mick Anglo)Illustra

After an almost 20 year absence, Miracleman reappears, throwing his alter ego Mike Moran's life into chaos...Back in the day, before he was Alan Moore: Supreme Curmudgeon and Master of Beards, Alan Moore was simply a cutting edge comic book writer. Miracleman was his ticket to the big time, before Swamp Thing, before Watchmen, before whatever it is he's doing these days besides seemingly being pissed off all the time.Miracleman started life as Marvelman, a 1950s British Captain Marvel homage/rip...

Miracleman is a legendary comic that’s been off bookshelves and in legal limbo for many, many years. Miracleman’s complicated history goes back to the Golden Age when he was created as a British knockoff of the popular DC Comics Captain Marvel character (who today is called Shazam), an origin which would see the character dragged through the courts for decades. When arguably the most famous comics writer there’s ever been, Alan Moore, came to write Miracleman at the start of his career, he manag...

A god shall walk among men, thus spake Zarathustra; this one walks from the technicolor innocence of the comic book 1950s into the dark and grime of the real world 1980s. A meta commentary on that ridiculous, wonderful innocence, an homage and a critique as well. A boy-hero transforms into a bloodthirsty villain; a teen-hero transforms into a schlubby everyman. A schlubby everyman becomes a living god; a happy dream of flying is suddenly remembered! But is this truly so? Here be dragons, and

The story, or history, of this series, is a bit of a mess. So let's get it out of the way. In 1953 some guy named Mike Anglo did a knock off of the Captain Marvel (DC) comics, lawsuits caused a name change but not really much else. Thus the character was named Marvelman - a young reporter named Micky Moran encounters an astrophysicist, instead of a wizard, who gives him superpowers based on atomic energy instead of magic. To transform into Marvelman, he speaks the word "Kimota", which is phoneti...

I hate Alan Moore for leaving his name off the credit box. I respect his stand on never to work for Marvel or DC; in fact, Miracleman was the reason Moore never worked for Marvel ever again after his stint with the publisher's UK office; I just find it foolish and eccentric and exasperating.This new edition of the original collected edition now comes enhanced with the latest coloring technology and new computer lettering. It also included a lot of back-matter that fans would love to peruse over....

Man, was I excited to read this. "Miracleman" is an out of print title written by Alan Moore back in the 80's. It has been caught up in bureaucratic red tape for almost 20 years. It was hugely influential on a group of writers and artists when it first came out but then faded into the mists of nerdom because it simply couldn't be read.I had resigned myself to never being able to read this when I found out Marvel acquired the rights and were going to print all the "Miracleman" stories and let Nei...

This is proto Alan Moore, in which he takes 1950’s comic conventions and tries to turn them on their ear in a smarty-pants, overambitious, BIG ideas kind of way. It’s a matryoshka doll type of story, where ideas are nestled within ideas. You keep opening the egg after egg until your left with a big, empty, dissatisfied feeling of weariness.I’m not just about throwing two proverbial pigs in a gunny sack kind of comics reader; I’m all for smart writing in comics, but I don’t need to read florid, g...

There Are Men, and the Men Mean Nothing to Him...Originally published under the title “Marvelman” from 1982 to 1984 in the pages of a British black-and-white comic-book anthology called Warrior, Alan Moore’s Miracleman re-imagines a lighthearted, rather juvenile Captain Marvel knockoff from the 1950s for the much darker, much more cynical 1980s. It marks the end of the innocence for the superhero, and the beginning of the so-called “British Invasion” of American mainstream comics: From 1985 on,

It's probably safe to call this the most anticipated reprint in the history of comics. It took many years and many lawyers to get here, but the fabled Alan Moore (and, later, Neil Gaiman) take on British hero Marvelman/Miracleman (ah, lawsuits!) is finally available outside the collector's market. Like so many other long-time comics readers, I've been hearing about this book for over a decade, without any opportunity to read it. Now I have.In some ways, this sort of feels like a dry run for Watc...

I am very glad DC reprinted this old run on Miracleman, otherwise I probably would've overlooked it as some of Alan Moore's earliest works. Previously I felt Swampthing was his best run, now I am not so sure anymore, as this comes very close of dethroning it for me. The beginning starts like any old superhero comic would but don't be fooled as that changes very quickly, I won't spoiler anything here. What happens in those first two issues ... Lets just say many many creators and writers took ins...

This Vulture article made me very excited to read this recently re-released comic, and now that I have, I don't even know where to begin with a review. So here is a brief history of the comic, taken from the Vulture article (click the link above for the full article):When the U.S. stopped importing then-popular Captain Marvel to Britain in 1954, British publishers created their own knock-off, Marvelman, who was popular until U.S. comics import restrictions eased in the early 60s, causing Marvelm...

The history of Miracleman is a long, complicated, and weird one. It is also one that most Americans who don’t read comic books will neither be familiar with nor care about. If you’re British, however, you may know a bit about it. If you are an Alan Moore fan, you’ll definitely know about it.Moore should be a familiar name to anyone who loves comic books. Best known for his revolutionary titles such as “Swamp Thing”, “Watchmen”, and “V for Vendetta”, Moore’s works are perhaps best known for a dar...

This short trade paperback collects together the first few issues of Eclipse's Miracleman series in the US - which were themselves reprints of black and white material originally published in the Warrior magazine in the UK.Marvelman was a British version of Fawcett's Captain “Shazam!” Marvel. First printed in 1954, Marvelman lasted until the early 60s before interest in the character faded. Then, Alan Moore took the idea and decided to reinvent and deconstruct the character. In the 1980s, a new,...

Before The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, before Watchmen, there was Miracleman. And by that I don't mean the original British knockoff of Shazam from the 1950's. That's not to degrade Mick Anglo's work by the by. That's actually what happened, albeit with a whole bloody mess of legal issues/copyright claims/naming & ownership disputes that followed. No, I'm talking about Alan Moore's run on Miracleman back in the 1980's, one of the first comic series - at least to my tiny tiny brain - to op...

Miracleman is what you get when you treat potentially goofy superhero comics as if they were serious works of literature. This is Alan Moore's revisionist take on Marvelman, a superhero from the 1950s created by Mick Anglo, and it's a key work in helping comics to break free from their restrictive code. The artwork is painterly, the prose are florid though not overly so by this point, and the characters are treated as ordinary human beings having to come to terms with the fact that they have ext...