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A review by bstratton
A Dream of Flying by Alan Moore, Alan Davis, Garry Leach
5.0
When I first read these stories nearly 25 years ago, they blew my mind. I was pleasantly surprised to see how well they hold up now. If they don't seem as groundbreaking as they once did, it's because so many comics writers have spent the last quarter of a century trying to reverse engineer The Original Writer's [sic] work. It's amazing how many of them have fallen short of the goal, even after two and a half decades of trying.
Maybe you need to have been there back in the day, when single issues of Miracleman were still being published (however infrequently) to feel that this is deserving of a five-star review. But revisiting these stories in Marvel's beautiful hardcover collection takes me back to when a young and hungry Alan Moore was turning the comics world on its head, and I couldn't get enough of it. Moore may have moved on to bigger and better things, and he might not even want his name on the 2014 edition, but I'm glad that this is back in print.
Maybe you need to have been there back in the day, when single issues of Miracleman were still being published (however infrequently) to feel that this is deserving of a five-star review. But revisiting these stories in Marvel's beautiful hardcover collection takes me back to when a young and hungry Alan Moore was turning the comics world on its head, and I couldn't get enough of it. Moore may have moved on to bigger and better things, and he might not even want his name on the 2014 edition, but I'm glad that this is back in print.