I was rather straining to understand about half of what I read here, but the half I did understand I quite liked. It was trippy, experimental, occasionally mythological, and quite good. Still a step down (a star removed) from Moore's best, though.

Utterly stunning, even during the relatively early stages of his career, Alan Moore is an undisputed master. I might enlarge on this just to try and type out my thoughts about the brilliance of Moore's achievement; the power of narrative, philosophy, morality, life, love, death. And poor, brilliant, tragic, Kid Miracleman...

Well it's not quite the masterpiece I remember it being, but it's really good. It's very well paced, with a satisfying climax and conclusion that justifies the slowness of the first two volumes. The infamous issue #15 is every bit as brutal and painful as its reputation suggests. A lot of the credit for that goes to John Totleben, who turns in wonderfully detailed and dream-like art, even though he was in the process of going blind at the time! My main criticism is with Moore's prose. He is gene...

Aliens come looking for Miracleman. Winter, Miracleman's daughter, begins speaking before she's a month old. Miraclewoman makes her presence known. Kid Miracleman returns. A utopia is created.The third Miracleman volume is kind of a disappointment. Firstly, it's a wordy son of a bitch, huge blocks of purple prose on every page. Secondly, apart from Kid Miracleman returning, it's pretty damn boring. Utopia is just as uninteresting as it sounds. Not only that, Miracleman went from being a revision...

Oh dear. There's a really good, really interesting story here. But too often, it gets buried beneath layers and layers of Moore's purple prose. For the most part, I could get through it fine. But every now and then, I'd come across a caption or a panel or even an entire page so horribly overwritten that I'd have to take a break from the book. It took me almost twice as long to read this one as it normally would a graphic novel of this size. And unfortunately, that wasn't because it was giving me...

This was an excellently produced collection, though too expensive, especially since it also had less than half the page count in story.It's an ending, and Moore took it to its natural conclusion. I like the inherent optimism of a benevolent hero-god who will husband the entire human race into the heavens and beyond.

Well that was a waste of effort!I loved vol.1 of Miracleman, vol. 2 was not as good, but this, this was just terrible.It was as if Alan Moore just took a load of acid and dumped his poetic nonsense onto paper. It's such a shame because amongst it all was a good story, but it wasn't exposed enough.Pages full of nonsense, what a waste and a spoilt ending to what could have been a great series.

Holy hell, Moore knows how to close off a saga; the storyline starts off exponentially more widescreen and epic than the last, and just grows from there. John Totelben's art is light years beyond Chuck Bekham's scribbles, and though I still miss Alan Davis and Garry Leach's dark, vicious shadows of the first book, Totelben's work on Marvelman's Ragnarok in issue 15 is impressively shocking and appalling. Moore is in full flower again, a story that posits superheroes as literal gods and takes an

The growing pains of the second volume are mostly over by now, and Moore gets the balance of light and dark right in his final Miracleman issues. Taking the whole "What would superpowers be like in the real world, maaaan" thing to its logical extremes, Moore gives us both an entire city leveled, and the establishment of a worldwide utopia free from poverty and hunger. Moore goes big and poetic without losing sight of the real-world politics he's commenting on; his mix of hippie idealism and grim...

It seemed at points that while writing this Alan Moore was going to leave our plane of existence and depart on the metaphysical bullshit express train that he is a frequent passenger on these days, but he held it together long enough to complete this story with a coherent (and very thorough) ending. Unfortunately, the ending lacked the appropriate "Fuck Yeah!" that I was expecting from this long-out-of-print, way-over-hyped book. It's good, but it isn't worth the price that the back issues cost

The Miracleman changed and the whole world with him! This TPB collects the third storyarc known as “Olympus” featuring issues #11-16 of “Miracleman”, plus additional stories “October Incident: 1966” & “Seriously Miraculous”, along with a “Behind-of-Scenes” section with sketches, pin-ups, cover variants, etc…Warning: This TPB contains “Mature Content”Creative Team:Writer: Alan Moore (despicted as “The Original Writer”, based on characters created by Mick Anglo), also Grant Morrison (for the sh

20i3 read: Gods and monsters walk the earth, as Miracleman's non-human creators seek to exterminate Project Zarathustra's survivors. More trials and tribulations for Bates. And with one one word the worse of the worse is set loose and the cost could well be like nothing you've seen in comics before. Alan Moore's masterpiece moves into the triggers for hyper violence, be warned! 10 out of 12, Five Star ReadCollects Miracleman 11-16 and All-New Miracleman Annual 1

This is the third and final book in the Miracleman series. It was quite a ride. I'd stumbled upon Miracleman when I read Neil Gaiman's GN. Having no background, I decided to go read the entire Alan Moore series. I am glad I did so. I admit this is not a series for everyone. It's a bit strange, a bit graphic, and a bit odd for most people. However, if you appreciate big ideas and some great prose then you will appreciate this great series.This final volume wraps up the story. Miracleman and Mirac...

Considered along with the previous two volumes, this is my pick for Alan Moore's best work. It's out of print, alas, and unlikely to be reprinted soon, given the ongoing legal battle over the rights (between Neil Gaiman, Todd McFarlane, and others).This third collection starts as a more or less conventional superhero comic, but veers into strange and SFnal territory. In modern terms, I consider it to be a story about the rise of a singularity, and one of the best, regardless of medium. I can onl...

I just have one word for this: Brutal!

Strap yourself in. This one's a long one....And so we come to this: the final volume in Alan Moore's run on Miracleman and I'm just going to come out and say it.This is not a strong end to what started as a decent story. In fact it actually took me a lot longer to push through this volume than it really should have. I felt like I was passing a kidney stone the size of Mt. Olympus itself just trying to get through this.Miracleman: Olympus in some ways feels like such a departure from the last two...

That’s it, I give up! I’ve struggled for two weeks to get through this third and final book in Alan Moore’s Miracleman trilogy and I can’t do it; it’s too depressing. I gave up on page 62, just over the halfway mark(!), but I’m going to review it anyway partly because not being able to finish the book says something about it in itself but also because the 62 pages I read were some of the worst comics pages I’ve ever read. So spoilers from here on out because I have to get specific. Mike Moran an...

(Some Spoilers Will Follow) "And sometimes...sometimes, I just wonder" it is here that we see the end of the first series in Alan Moore's spiritual superhero trilogy, which ends on a rather paradoxical note, as we see one of the weaker stories in Alan's Miracleman run, but one he makes up for with an ending that will punch you straight in the nuts and make you say thank you for it. It was truly the ending of the series that got me to really love this and declare it one of Alan's more underrated

After what I thought was a decline in quality from Book One to Book Two, I think this third and final instalment may be the most significant of them all. This features the best artwork of the entire series; it's uncanny, dreamlike, rich, painterly, poetic, haunting, and poised precariously between ugly and beautiful, with some truly striking, grandiose, and beguiling images, such as the huge statues, the Mors god, the swan-shaped funeral-boat, and the vistas of a future utopia.The writing is the...

After such a glorious beginning to Moore's Miracleman saga, the ending stumbles and falls unexpectedly flat. What's frustrating is that there's so much potential goodness here - the alien space-gods, the slow death of Miracleman's "normal" life, the horrific return of Kid Miracleman. There are many ideas here that would find a better expression later in Moore's career.What killed Miracleman III for me was the framing device: the hero is recounting all these events from a vantage point five years...