Miracleman #9

It's great work by "The Original Writer" (wink wink) and artists Rick Veitch and Rick Bryant, and (unless you're squeamish) is t'll worth tracking down. Read Full Review

A great character with superb storytelling, Miracleman continues to deliver decades after its original publication. For more information on the series and how it came to be (as well as an overview of the amazing copyright-jumping involved in the series' printings), check out my post later this week for our first Flashback Friday feature, where I'll get you up to speed on Miracleman. Read Full Review

coby

Aug 09, 2014

Coby's Top 5 Comic of the Week

This is one of those crazy issues I've been hearing about for the past year+, since I got back into comics. Since the story has already been told, it's been real tempting to track down the old black & white versions of Alan Moore's Miracleman to see what happens, but I haven't. I'm actually following along with them as Marvel re-releases the re-mastered editions (written by "Original Author"... whoever this guy is, he knows his stuff!). And, yup, you totally see the woman giving birth in this issue, in graphic detail. But it was beautiful--I wasn't grossed out at all. And don't worry, all you prudish pare nts out there: Marvel made sure to package this one correctly and include Parental Advisory stickers all over the place. All of that backmatter they include, however, is for the birds. Does anybody actually care about any of that? more