Alan moore miracleman download

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Thus, the new character originally resembled his American counterpart in just about everything except for his name, his hair color, and the absence of a cape. Like his Shazam-speaking inspiration, Micky soon assembled his own family of adventurers with the same ability, including Young Marvelman Dicky Dauntless, and Johnny Bates, the prepubescent Kid Marvelman. In short order, Moore revealed that everything we, and poor Micky, knew about Miracleman had been totally wrong.

Rather than a plucky reporter granted amazing powers, Moran was in fact the victim of a clandestine government program that had melded him and his young sidekicks to ultra-powerful alien bodies — his cheerful Golden Age adventures were no more than a computer simulation playing out in his head.

Innocent little Johnny Bates, meanwhile, had been totally subsumed by his power-hungry alien alter ego. By then, however, the book had already bounced between a series of small publishers, and in it ultimately stopped publication completely in a confused mess of ownership disputes. Comments will load 8 seconds after page. Click here to load them now.

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Almost everything worth reading came in the form of imports from the U. In , a lawsuit back in the U. So, cheap pulp merchants that they were, they created their own English-born ripoff called Marvelman. The similarities were hilariously transparent. Instead of Billy Batson, you had Micky Moran. Instead of sidekicks Captain Marvel Jr. The comic disappeared in It seemed Marvelman would never fly again.

Flash forward to , when Britain was experiencing an explosion of ambitious young writers and artists. He had a strange idea: Why not bring back Marvelman and give the creative reins to one of the U.

Why not see what a twisted creative mind could do to a bland s relic? The job fell to year-old Alan Moore, who was far from a household name at the time. What he created was nothing short of revolutionary. What would happen if ordinary people in the real world gained superhuman abilities? And why not write a superhero as being truly, unrestrainedly godlike? In the collection that just hit shelves, you can find out how Moore and the exceedingly talented artist Garry Leach answered those unprecedented questions.

Occasionally he has eerie dreams of high-flying superheroics.