Miracleman Book Four: The Golden Age

Rating:
Summary: Aftermath
Review: Coming after Alan Moore's run on Miracleman, how could anything coming after hope to live up? Well, the sad answer is that it doesn't. In comparison to the three preceding volumes it comes as a bit of an anti-climax. That having been said, I must acknowledge that The Golden Age should still be read by any Miracleman fan. There are a few things that you should know about before getting into it. First, the Big Blue Banana himself appears in the book hardly at all. Having created Uptopia on Earth, there is little for him to do now except rule over it. Occasionally pilgrims make the four-day climb up Olympus to "pray" - i.e., beg Miracleman for a favor. That's all we really see of him. The rest of the book is taken up with what life would be like in the new Miracleman universe. Of course, we also get to see what "life" is like for the reincarnated souls in Olympus - especially all those Andy Wharhols.

Rating:
Summary: Aftermath
Review: Coming after Alan Moore's run on Miracleman, how could anything coming after hope to live up? Well, the sad answer is that it doesn't. In comparison to the three preceding volumes it comes as a bit of an anti-climax. That having been said, I must acknowledge that The Golden Age should still be read by any Miracleman fan. There are a few things that you should know about before getting into it. First, the Big Blue Banana himself appears in the book hardly at all. Having created Uptopia on Earth, there is little for him to do now except rule over it. Occasionally pilgrims make the four-day climb up Olympus to "pray" - i.e., beg Miracleman for a favor. That's all we really see of him. The rest of the book is taken up with what life would be like in the new Miracleman universe. Of course, we also get to see what "life" is like for the reincarnated souls in Olympus - especially all those Andy Wharhols.

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Summary: One of Gaiman's Best
Review: Miracleman Book Four : The Golden Age is a collection of several stand alone stories from the Eclipse comic Miracleman. After Miracleman solved most of the world's problems at the end of book three, one would think that there would be little left in this series. Fortunately Neil Gaiman is more than up to the task of continuing the story from where legendary comic author Alan Moore left off. Gaiman explores the strange landscape of the Utopia Miracleman has created in stories about the basic human condition in a fantastic science fiction future. This is a superb collection complemented by Mark Buckingham's phenominal artwork. Highly Recommended!

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Summary: The best Gaiman you'll never read...
Review: While published in tandem with Gaiman's award-winning Sandman series, his run on Miracleman was truly something special. It's also ridiculously difficult to find at this point, due to legal snafus. Nevertheless, it'll be worth the hassle.

Why? Consider this: what do you do when Alan Moore has pretty much wrecked the world as we know it? Make up a new one. And fortunately, as we've also seen in bestsellers like Neverwhere and Stardust, this is one thing Gaiman can do. From people admiring drug-users because they represent the last known frontier, to the permanence of death, and even the inevitability of evil, Gaiman hits on mythical concepts in a thoroughly plausible and enjoyable way.

How would superheroes REALLY affect our world? Read this volume and see. I guarantee you won't see any of it coming.