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wyntrchylde 's review for:
A Dream of Flying
by Alan Davis, Garry Leach, Paul Neary, Steve Dillon, Don Lawrence, Mick Anglo
Miracleman:
Book One:
A Dream of Flying
Author: Moore, Anglo, Leach, Davis, Lawrence, Dillon, Neary, Oliff, Caramagna, Eliopoulos
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Published In: New York City, NY, USA
Date: 2014
Pgs: 176
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Summary:
A magic word and a forgotten legend again walks the Earth. Two decades along, the man inside Miracleman wants answers. He will explore his origins and connection to Project Zarathustra. His truth. Their lies. And where the two become one. While Miracleman is busy with that, his very human alter ego must come to grips with life as the human half of a creature with godlike power.
Genre:
Adventure
Comics and graphic novels
Fiction
Science fiction
Superheroes
Why this book:
I’ve seen Miracleman/Marvelman before and was interested in taking a walk through this obvious Captain Shazam Marvel-esque character. KIMOTA! SHAZAM! BOOM!
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Favorite Character:
Miracleman, Young Miracleman, Kid Miracleman...I loved ‘em all three.
Least Favorite Character:
Kommandant Garrer and the Science Gestapo. Of course, they are villains, so I’m supposed to dislike him...and them. He makes me think of Per Degaton who was always a favorite comic book villain of mine. The time travelling Nazi schtick fits them both.
The Feel:
A little bit schizo, but that fits with the way the story is written.
Favorite Scene:
When Miracleman tries to describe his 1950s career to his alter ego’s wife in 1982 and she calls him on the silly names and such that were part of the comic book norm back then.
Kid Miracleman going all dragon...and, then, lamb.
Pacing:
The pace is alright. Not great. But alright.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
It’s hard to call this when you are looking at part of the story being virtual reality and the rest being dealing with that VR life in the real world.
Hmm Moments:
When Garrer destroys his time ships so that his Science Gestapo has to stay in the past and so that the Miracleman Family can’t send them back through time, it is very Cortez-ian.
Miraclebaby? Baby Miracleman? Is it cheating if your wife sleeps with your alter ego who is you...but not you? Though we don’t get the payoff on this within this hardcover.
Why isn’t there a screenplay?
If they got it onto the screen ahead of Captain Shazam Marvel, they’d be golden. But it would have to be rushed to get ahead of them with the Shazam movie already having a 2019 release date.
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Last Page Sound:
That’s all?
Author Assessment:
I like the way that the stories are written and formatted.
Editorial Assessment:
Wish the editor or whoever was responsible for putting this together would have pushed for more story.
Knee Jerk Reaction:
glad I read it
Disposition of Book:
Irving Public Library
Irving, TX
Would recommend to:
genre fans
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Errata:
The whole Fawcett Comics/DC Comics Captain Marvel not being able to be called Captain Marvel anymore even though he’s been Captain Marvel since the 1940s is such bullshit.
The whole referring to Alan Moore as The Original Writer in all the title pages of this books is, as above, bullshit.
Book One:
A Dream of Flying
Author: Moore, Anglo, Leach, Davis, Lawrence, Dillon, Neary, Oliff, Caramagna, Eliopoulos
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Published In: New York City, NY, USA
Date: 2014
Pgs: 176
REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Summary:
A magic word and a forgotten legend again walks the Earth. Two decades along, the man inside Miracleman wants answers. He will explore his origins and connection to Project Zarathustra. His truth. Their lies. And where the two become one. While Miracleman is busy with that, his very human alter ego must come to grips with life as the human half of a creature with godlike power.
Genre:
Adventure
Comics and graphic novels
Fiction
Science fiction
Superheroes
Why this book:
I’ve seen Miracleman/Marvelman before and was interested in taking a walk through this obvious Captain Shazam Marvel-esque character. KIMOTA! SHAZAM! BOOM!
______________________________________________________________________________
Favorite Character:
Miracleman, Young Miracleman, Kid Miracleman...I loved ‘em all three.
Least Favorite Character:
Kommandant Garrer and the Science Gestapo. Of course, they are villains, so I’m supposed to dislike him...and them. He makes me think of Per Degaton who was always a favorite comic book villain of mine. The time travelling Nazi schtick fits them both.
The Feel:
A little bit schizo, but that fits with the way the story is written.
Favorite Scene:
When Miracleman tries to describe his 1950s career to his alter ego’s wife in 1982 and she calls him on the silly names and such that were part of the comic book norm back then.
Kid Miracleman going all dragon...and, then, lamb.
Pacing:
The pace is alright. Not great. But alright.
Plot Holes/Out of Character:
It’s hard to call this when you are looking at part of the story being virtual reality and the rest being dealing with that VR life in the real world.
Hmm Moments:
When Garrer destroys his time ships so that his Science Gestapo has to stay in the past and so that the Miracleman Family can’t send them back through time, it is very Cortez-ian.
Miraclebaby? Baby Miracleman? Is it cheating if your wife sleeps with your alter ego who is you...but not you? Though we don’t get the payoff on this within this hardcover.
Why isn’t there a screenplay?
If they got it onto the screen ahead of Captain Shazam Marvel, they’d be golden. But it would have to be rushed to get ahead of them with the Shazam movie already having a 2019 release date.
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Last Page Sound:
That’s all?
Author Assessment:
I like the way that the stories are written and formatted.
Editorial Assessment:
Wish the editor or whoever was responsible for putting this together would have pushed for more story.
Knee Jerk Reaction:
glad I read it
Disposition of Book:
Irving Public Library
Irving, TX
Would recommend to:
genre fans
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Errata:
The whole Fawcett Comics/DC Comics Captain Marvel not being able to be called Captain Marvel anymore even though he’s been Captain Marvel since the 1940s is such bullshit.
The whole referring to Alan Moore as The Original Writer in all the title pages of this books is, as above, bullshit.