As it happens, I just read that chapter in Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman a couple of days ago. It's about as clear an explanation as you're gonna get, but, yeah, still headache-inducing. It does look like Marvel intends to reprint the Moore and Gaiman runs...and maybe the completion of Gaiman's planned run? That would be an unprecedented event, if it happens. I can't think of any other "lost project" that had a chance for completion like this.
I have the first three Moore books in TPB form and the 1st Gaiman book and the only two issues of Gaiman's discontinued 2nd book.
Mark said I can't think of any other "lost project" that had a chance for completion like this.
Tha last time I was this excited about a book was when I heard after about 10 years of waiting that Dark Horse had signed up to publish the complete Lone Wolf and Cub. It's one of the finest comic epics you could read.
I had resigned myself to trying to learn Japanese so that I could finish the serial that I'd begun reading in the First Comics line. Or maybe marry someone fluent in Japanese who didn't mind reading me bedtime stories.
Interestingly enough, perhaps the last 'lost project' that got a chance of completion like this, was Miracleman itself!! It ended its first run in the UK 'Warrior' magazine in similar legal entanglements and it took some people knocking heads together in the US to kick-start it again as a monthly comic.
Another very notable thing about Marvelman from Moore's last collection onwards is that it shows a working Utopia, and what it might be like to live in one. There aren't too many of those in fiction, and it seems like a great way to look at what it means to be human.
I have the first three Moore books in TPB form and the 1st Gaiman book and the only two issues of Gaiman's discontinued 2nd book.
Mark said I can't think of any other "lost project" that had a chance for completion like this.
Tha last time I was this excited about a book was when I heard after about 10 years of waiting that Dark Horse had signed up to publish the complete Lone Wolf and Cub. It's one of the finest comic epics you could read.
I had resigned myself to trying to learn Japanese so that I could finish the serial that I'd begun reading in the First Comics line. Or maybe marry someone fluent in Japanese who didn't mind reading me bedtime stories.
I didn't read the entire article, so I don't know if this is addressed there, but I hope Marvel is wise enough not to fold this into their regular line.
I have visions of Marvel Man battling Marvel Zombies and Monkeys, and they disturb me.
I hope Marvel is wise enough not to fold this into their regular line. I have visions of Marvel Man battling Marvel Zombies and Monkeys, and they disturb me.
The Sentry is very much their watered down version of Marvelman anyway. The first mini started with almost identical scenes of the married middle-aged everyman dealing with his humdrum life before becoming aware that he has a hidden past as the strongest superhero ever.
Later they had the same scenes of his perception of reality warping around him (both in the Avengers arc and his 8-part mini.)
Luckily the Sentry is too frakked up in the head to think about setting up a global fascist utopia.
But the whole point of Marvelman is that he's a superhero in a world much like our own and who decides to change the entire status quo. It's written like a novel. He's just another flying stooge in tights if they take that away from him.
Didn't Quasar (or someone like him) used to be called Marvelman for a while?
That would be the reason I said I hoped they wouldn't do it. :)
Figserello said:
But the whole point of Marvelman is that he's a superhero in a world much like our own and who decides to change the entire status quo. It's written like a novel. He's just another flying stooge in tights if they take that away from him.
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I have the first three Moore books in TPB form and the 1st Gaiman book and the only two issues of Gaiman's discontinued 2nd book.
Mark said I can't think of any other "lost project" that had a chance for completion like this.
Tha last time I was this excited about a book was when I heard after about 10 years of waiting that Dark Horse had signed up to publish the complete Lone Wolf and Cub. It's one of the finest comic epics you could read.
I had resigned myself to trying to learn Japanese so that I could finish the serial that I'd begun reading in the First Comics line. Or maybe marry someone fluent in Japanese who didn't mind reading me bedtime stories.
Interestingly enough, perhaps the last 'lost project' that got a chance of completion like this, was Miracleman itself!! It ended its first run in the UK 'Warrior' magazine in similar legal entanglements and it took some people knocking heads together in the US to kick-start it again as a monthly comic.
Another very notable thing about Marvelman from Moore's last collection onwards is that it shows a working Utopia, and what it might be like to live in one. There aren't too many of those in fiction, and it seems like a great way to look at what it means to be human.
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I have visions of Marvel Man battling Marvel Zombies and Monkeys, and they disturb me.
The Sentry is very much their watered down version of Marvelman anyway. The first mini started with almost identical scenes of the married middle-aged everyman dealing with his humdrum life before becoming aware that he has a hidden past as the strongest superhero ever.
Later they had the same scenes of his perception of reality warping around him (both in the Avengers arc and his 8-part mini.)
Luckily the Sentry is too frakked up in the head to think about setting up a global fascist utopia.
But the whole point of Marvelman is that he's a superhero in a world much like our own and who decides to change the entire status quo. It's written like a novel. He's just another flying stooge in tights if they take that away from him.
Didn't Quasar (or someone like him) used to be called Marvelman for a while?
Figserello said:
... and of course, zombie-monkey sex scenes.
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