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I heard today that Marvel have consolidated the rights and re-issued MM.
Alan Moore's run will take place over the next 18 months, then Gaiman's, then a continuation.
The whole post-modern graphic novel scene from the mid 1980-now owes a huge debt to MM.
It blew me away back then and I will be collecting the re-issues et al.
If you can pick it up please do so :cool:
Alan Moore's run will take place over the next 18 months, then Gaiman's, then a continuation.
The whole post-modern graphic novel scene from the mid 1980-now owes a huge debt to MM.
It blew me away back then and I will be collecting the re-issues et al.
If you can pick it up please do so :cool:
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Now if only I could get a copy of Third World War... I'd really love for my wife to read that
The thread should be called MarvelMan though innit
http://marvel.com/comics/issue/49601/miracleman_2014_1
Seems like an odd thing to do after reprinting the Mick Anglo stories under the MarvelMan name. I guess there must be some sort of legal/contractual reason.
Looking at the cover to the Book One graphic novel, it seems Gary Leach's Warpsmith is on-board.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miracleman-Dream-Flying-Book-1/dp/0785154620
I went to a local comic shop at the weekend and they didn't know when this would be in (tbh they were kinda unhelpful, as most fan-run businesses tend to be, just chatting with regulars at the check-out..).
If anyone has a good mail order link for Marvel I'd really appreciate it, as I can't afford to be hanging around town centres on the off chance
It was out last Wednesday, which country are you in?
Most comic shops are fan run, sure, but they need to know what they're doing or they don't last very long - I've seen enough fail horribly to know that. MM was pushed in Previews months ago, comic shops tend to order in 3 months in advance.
The assistant I spoke to nonchalantly printed out the shop details on a dummy receipt and said 'call us next week'
Yeah, sure.
So, any mail order sources in the UK for Marvel/MM?
I've used these guys, they're pretty good:
http://www.disposableheroes.co.uk/index.php
Though I tend to get new stuff on Comixology and, depending how it is, either get the whole series on that or wait for the trade/graphic novel. I still get a chunk of dead-tree versions but space is limited...
FP? Why yes, yes it was!
I'm not hugely pissed off, it is what it is.
But I'm 20 stone and you can't miss me at the counter. And, you know, I could do without standing there while the shop guys talk about their awesome Daredevil Podcast.
I just can't spare that kind of time anymore, being many years removed from college.
Thanks muchly for the link.
Still, great to have it back, even if the reprint may harm the value of my copy of #15.
I had half a dozen signed by Alan Moore, but had to sell them when I was broke. Which is why I'm so keen to pick up the re-print.
Got the complete run of Warrior and all in foil-stamped binders and a complete run of Crisis with Third World War! Was 3WW re-published in book form?
I expect the biggest copyright problem with Issue 19 will be the panels showing Warhol-esque paintings of Popeye, Dick Tracey and Scrooge McDuck.
But that's not a problem until they get to Neil Gaiman's Book 4, sometime next year. Before that, it's good know Gary Leach's Warpsmith is definitely appearing in Book 1. Which can only mean we'll finally get a colour reprint of The Yesterday Gambit from Warrior Issue 4.
Dick Tracy would be the problem, Popeye is now free domain and Scrooge McDuck is Disney property. Marvel is now a subsidiary of Disney so there would be no conflict now. Dick Tracy however belongs to Warren Beatty, he owns the rights to the character these days and has since 1985. He actually appears to have had a dispute with current Marvel Architect head writer Brian Michael Bendis as recently as 2005 when he tried to write a new Dick Tracy series. So I don't think Beatty will budge on the matter, he has more than enough money and a personal reason not to kowtow to Marvel.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the Warhol Foundation. While they may hold the rights to specific works by Warhol, I'm not sure they can do much about the representation of a significant historical figure who has been dead for a quarter of a century.
And let's not forget how MM humiliates Mrs Thatch in Issue 16. (Little bit of politics from the guy in the sparkly suit. The one who didn't go on to write crap musicals.)
Considering the story largely revolves around a cloned and demented version of Warhol I think the issue of defamation of character would also be a point of contention if they feel his likeness is being misused and his legacy perverted for exploitation in a way they have not approved. It's why Tarantino couldn't actually show Elvis in True Romance, he didn't have the money to barter with his Estate and he was fairly certain they wouldn't sign off on the script. So they just had Val Kilmer do the accent and show parts of his body so you knew who they were alluding to even if they weren't explicitly depicting him. It's not a case of parody since they clearly and repeatedly show Warhol using an image of one of his self portrait screen prints in many panels. That is the Warhol Foundation's property and it is their duty to preserve his reputation as they see fit to benefit or preserve the Estate.
The Thatcher scene will get by because Marvel is an American company. It might not get clearance to be shipped over here though, depending on if political interest groups find it worth blocking or not. However the legal wranglings of an international defamation suit would be a lot more complicated than Warhol's Estate taking action against Marvel since they are both under the US legal jurisdiction.
It is, under English law, impossible to defame the dead, so that shouldn't be an issue. Copyright and the use of likeness are another matter - but I would think Marvel know what they're doing legally.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/31/the-print-version-of-miracleman-is-censored-over-the-n-word/
As it says, how the hell are they going to cope with the birth issue?
Anyway, one of my favourite parts in the latest, where Miracleman meets Big Ben, The Man With No Time For Crime. The alternate reality bits in Big Ben's mind are brilliant. Alan Moore was a master at using existing comic conventions in a different way.
The digital copy, however, is anyone's guess after the bizarre drawn-on knickers in Issue 1. They would pretty much have to redraw the whole issue from a different perspective.
BIB - God forbid they actually SHOW how babies are naturally born these days like the original. OMG!! female genitalia being shown when a baby is born! We are all going to hell on a placenta
Bet they'll have a nice clean c section or a censer strip
back cover instead of a certain hirsute Northamptonian.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Original-Writer/e/B00K1BCXC6
All very mad. Which is probably just how Moore likes it!
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/08/06/miracleman-9-ignores-rick-veitchs-colouring-instructions/
A total non-story. The flashback panels still have a sepia tint and the new colouring has the approval of Rick Veitch.
As fair as censorship goes, this series is doing remarkably well. If we ignore the digital editions (which were cancelled after Issue 4), the only real instance has been a single omission of the N-word.
I guess the next things to worry about would be the rape of Johnny Bates in Issue 14 and the shower of severed genitals in Issue 15.