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Title: Miracleman Book Three: Olympus by Alan Moore ISBN: 1-56060-080-2 Publisher: Eclipse Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: As comic books go, it's a perfect diamond.
Comment: I was happy to discover that my copy of this is worth $175. I also have the other books in the series and consider them together to be a personal treasure.
Book 3 is the the climax of Moore's best early work, written when he was still fresh and feeling out new ideas that have in the two decades since completely reshaped and rebuilt 'western' comics into a diverse and mature artform.
Or at least one corner of it is diverse & mature. Most of it is still crap. There is some excellent Japanese work but the American mainstream still rarely impressive. This was a very high, early peak in the artform.
Anyhoo, With Miracleman:
First there is interesting dovetailing and wrap-up of a very enjoyable and original plot started in the previous books. It's full of issues that are ripe with philosophy and ethical/moral implications.
Then there is terrific dramatic buildup to earthshaking, cataclysmic violence, centered around my favorite character, Kid Miracleman.
He is one of the most sympathetic evil psychopaths I've ever read in comics. Born as MiracleMan's sidekick, Kid Miracleman becomes a victim and puppet of all his worst impulses. He goes through a Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde transformation to become truly, consciously evil, rather like Nietzche's Overman. His breakdown and demise are truly tragic.
The final part of the book is a brief story about the Miraclefamily establishing a Utopia on earth, supported by their ultimate and unlimited power, they become benevolent dieties, breaking humanity's selfish vices and reinventing the world as it should be. It's a wonderful and fascinating 'what if' scenario that was completely new and inspired.
And then there's romance and a few moments of sublime joy and beauty. Comics can convey many emotions, sometimes better than words alone. I've never seen a better visual depiction of this sort of holy, sensual intimacy in a any comic/sequential art book. I found it beautiful and moving.
Obviously I like this book. It's a shame they still can't untangle the Gordian knot of ownership here and get this whole reprinted. It's a lost classic of the artform.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Balanced on the diamond capstone of Olympus"
Comment: If there was ever a series that EVERYBODY gets excited about, it's Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman's Miracleman. The first 10 issues are a very entertaining spy story, reworking the title character's origins in classic Moore fashion. The art is a little spotty, unfortunately, and the story suffers for a couple of issues in Book 2: The Red King Syndrome. Olympus is the payoff. Moore and Totleben were made to make comics together, as evidenced by their acclaimed run with Steve Bissette on Swamp Thing, and this is the best work either of them has ever done, and perhaps ever will do, with the super-hero genre. This book is abou 150 pages of the most heartbreakingly beautiful comic art you will ever see in your life; Totleben's baroque line art impressively manages to save Moore's purple prose from caving under its own weight, and Moore has Totleben draw some of the most compelling characters and moving scenes in any medium, all while decorating it with beautifully poetic language. There's a reason that everyone gushes about this series, and Olympus is that reason.
Rating: 5
Summary: Miracleman - entertaining and intelligent
Comment: The Miracleman (Marvelman in the UK) collections are quit interesting, and what's more, offer a terrific deconstruction of the superhero ideal. This ideal was later explored in his SUPREME series, though MIRACLEMAN nonetheless offered a serious approach and proved quite groundbreaking in gaining intellectual readership and redefining literature that was once, long ago, referred to funny books. The several collections are all worth a read though the later books (when Moore handed the reins to Neil Gaiman; this was one of Gaiman's first comic works) as well BOOK 3: OLYMPUS have the best and most picturesque, expressive artwork.
I discovered Alan Moore in my college days, and since then I have been overwhelmed at wealth and back calogue of his work; the man is quite simply very prolific, with the exception of a couple creations or what are simply uninteresting series, we are lucky to have his work. Moore's writing has been compared to the works of others and yet I feel that Moore is often the most solid of any comics writer, hands down. His style is mysterious, magical, and at times disturbing, though always intelligent.
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Title: Miracleman Book Four: The Golden Age by Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham ISBN: 156060168X Publisher: Eclipse Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Swamp Thing: Reunion - Book 6 (Swamp Thing) by Alan Moore ISBN: 1563899752 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Saga of the Swamp Thing - Book 1 (DC Comics Vertigo (Paperback)) by Alan Moore ISBN: 0930289226 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 23 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Miracleman Book One: A Dream of Flying by Alan Moore ISBN: 0913035610 Publisher: Eclipse Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Miracleman: The Red King Syndrome, Book Two by Alan Moore ISBN: 1560600365 Publisher: Eclipse Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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