UPDATE: As Stewart Lee says, "you can prove anything with facts".Rick Veitch gets in touch regarding the piece below, saying "Please update your post about Marvel ignoring my 1987 coloring instructions to reflect that I had complete approval of Marvel’s new coloring. And that I think the new version looks fantastic too."Which makes all of the[...]
Launching next week are Genius, Imperial and Nightworld from Image, Strangers In Paradise Kids #1, Terminal Hero and Sixth Gun: Day Of The Dead#1, the Miracleman birth issue and the end of Kick Ass And the week after? We find out what happened to Mr Fantastic's testicles in Ultimate FF #6. So what will you be[...]
Here are the pencils from Rick Veitch for the new cover for Miracleman #9, the birth issue, out next month from Marvel Comics.The retailer warning for the comic now reads "Miracleman #9 GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING Please note that the upcoming Miracleman #9 contains graphic content, including a detailed scene of childbirth."This is how they did it[...]
Talking of which...Old editorial pages of Miracleman with Cat Yronwode are rewritten with a clunkier credit Here's how it originally looked.. with the Eclipse plug for the New Wave titles, now removed. There are a lot of cats around today it seemsArcher Coe gives me a great idea for a hypnotism act[...]
Often Marvel ComicsThis is how it was solicited.
MIRACLEMAN #9
THE ORIGINAL WRITER (W) • RICK VEITCH (A/C)
Variant Cover by DAVE MARQUEZ
Variant Cover by PAUL RENAUD
Variant Cover by ADI Granov
• The battle with Gargunza has ended.
• The birth of Miracleman and Liz Moran’s baby!
• And a shocking surprise ending in this groundbreaking issue!
• Including material originally presented[...]
To coincide with the release of a certain Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying collection...[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWv4j6dp81A[/youtube] To coincide with the release of a certain Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying collection...[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWv4j6dp81A[/youtube] To coincide with the release of a certain Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying collection...[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWv4j6dp81A[/youtube][...]
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First there are cinema ads, now there ads in major newspaper. Marvel, the publisher never known to spent a cent on advertising that it can afford not to is splashing out on a comic that isn't exactly lighting up the sales. And also costs $25 for four issues. Was this part of the publishing deal? […]
On Saturday, Bleeding Cool told you that Marvel would be advertising Miracleman in cinemas over Memorial Weekend.And so it came to pass, with viewers reporting screenings before Godzilla and X-Men: Days Of Future Past and an ad for this week's collection Miracleman Book 1: A Dream of Flying. Four issues collected for $30 Hmm Beats the alternative,[...]
In cinemas in the US over Memorial Day weekend, Bleeding Cool has been told that Marvel Comics will be running ads for the Miracleman comic book.The ad will run in 365 cinemas, before PG-13 films, and Marvel have told retailers that it is expected to be viewed by two-and-a-half million people It will run approximately[...]
Reading this scene in this week's Miracleman #5, sealed inside a bag as we warned you about, I wondered how it was going to have to be neutered for the digital mass market version.Marvel have sold two versions, of the digital comic, a Mass Marvel version on its own digital app and store, with "bottoms[...]
When the original Miracleman #9 by Alan Moore and Rick Veitch was published, it was rather controversial Steve Geppi of Diamond Comic Distributors wrote in response,
Diamond values its retailers too much to take chances on such a dangerous situation… We are not censors We no more want someone deciding for us than you do We[...]
(UPDATED with a better version) Do note that the appearance of Miracleman, top left in the original, as one of the many appearances seen by The Watcher has now been changed to some anonymous dude.Awww.....Comics courtesy of a friendly American retailer... This was a scene from a preview copy of Original Sin #0 by Mark Waid[...]
I understand Marvel Comics, disappointed with sales on the Miracleman republishing project have decided to relaunch the book as an All-New Marvel NOW! title Which means a new issue 1 in July, just in time for the "birth" issue that caused such controversy on its initial publication.As to how they will get around the issues[...]
What's a publisher to do? Marvel is reprinting Marvelman/Miracleman but some readers are familiar with different prints Take this scene from Miracleman #4, out this week.A few folk shouted foul: why had Big Ben replaced Garguanza? Was it down to the Fu Manchu reference? From the Miracleman 3D Special...But no, when Eclipse published the Miracleman[...]
Kev F Sutherland is a stand up comedian, comedy show producer, sock puppeteer, comic book writer/artist and educator. When the London UKCACs came to an end, he put on the Bristol Comics Expo which survives to this day. And he arranged and presented the National Comics Awards with Mark Buckingham – the first comics show […]
It was also a device for publisher Dez Skinn to launch his own series, Big Ben - The Man With No Time For Crime.Shortly afterwards, Marvel UK would begin reprinting Marvel US's Thing series, retitled Big Ben, as a deliberate snub to Skinn.The Special was reprinted by Eclipse as Miracleman 3D Special, with the colouring[...]
From the new Miracleman #2.. Thank goodness for modern printing production quality I wonder how "Superflick" looked when it was originally printed?From the new Miracleman #2.. Thank goodness for modern printing production quality I wonder how "Superflick" looked when it was originally printed?From the new Miracleman #2.. Thank goodness for modern printing production[...]
Here's the Miracleman #3 cover by JG Jones.And here is wrestler Randy Orton doing his trademark pose.A little miracle referencing at work? Here are more covers and a look at the next Miracleman issue... Here's the Miracleman #3 cover by JG Jones.And here is wrestler Randy Orton doing his trademark pose.A little[...]
I remember looking at earlier printed of Marvelman – Warrior, Eclipse, English collection, French collection, and realised I was able to judge how well a version has been reproduced very quickly by whether you could see the edge of Liz Moran's nipple in one specific scene. I was a teenager, it was going to happen. […]
