This was supposed to be the one that got away, too tied up legal mumbo jumbo to ever be back on track. I highly doubt the transaction was as simple as suggested in the article........
.......still if there's hope for MM then I guess it's possible for any character caught in legal problems You could say it's a Miracle
Although the news is significantly lessened if back issues are still just as hard to get......
Alan Moore is the Prima donna of the comic book world. He can say what he wants but there's several places where he stick his comics if he gets hissy (again)
i will probably never understand why comic companies can't/won't just let a *true* classic character be. miracleman went out on top, and to this day he is regarded among the all time greatest characters ever. if marvel revives him, i'm sure he'll have a good run at the top for a while, but what can they really do besides ruin him in the end?
That's assuming he's finite. If he's ongoing like many MU characters then he will have highs and lows like the rest of them. If you leave him as he is, sure you leave behind a great story and if he was supposed to be left alone from now on, we'll quickly find this out he hard way. But......if it's good........fans will still complain that it took this long to get to these great stories!
Not that I'm defending Marvel buying the character, but with comments like this, they can't win.
I'm betting Neil Gaiman will be writing him. He's been leading the court case to get him back into publication for years. Now that MM can be published, I think he'll be damned if someone else does it.
And MM most likely gets his own Earth, with his history intact (as Marvel gets to publish the old stuff.)
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No MM is Sentry's father and the real ultimate hero they've been talking about this whole time, everyone thought it was Sentry because they look just alike.
It's a business. They have artists trying to create wonderful stories, yes. But from a company standpoint, they want money. Neil Gaiman fighting for MM is great, but he wouldn't have had Marvel's backing if there wasn't a monetary well to be mined. No amount of philosophical reasoning will undo that.
And to be clear, I agree with you wholeheartedly. Recapturing the "magic" of a classic character won't be possible, at least not for long. I'll look forward to this, however, just because it seems less futile than being upset.
As someone once said of Star Wars: "no matter how bad the new things or changes may be they can never really the parts you loved away from you."
Personally I just find this impractical. Character's like MiracleMan just don't fit into the worlds of "mainstream" comic. DC could have put him in Vertigo and never looked back but Marvel seems like it will inevitably have him interacting with characters he's terribly incompatable with.
No matter what I think this will be interesting.
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Jul 25th, 2009 07:12 PM
You could say it's a Miracle 
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I think so
