My last post on uber-nerd Gary Gygax opened up a whole can of lumbricus. Soon after ruminating on the legacy of the man after which natural 20s are going to be named (if the preceding clause made absolutely no sense to you, then you might as well skip this post as I will be sprinkling nerd-speak liberally throughout this entire entry), I came across A.V. Club primer on dystopian science fiction writer and comic book legend Alan Moore.Miracle Man is one of those unfortunate masterworks which, due to the frustratingly endless legal battles over the ownership of the opus, might never be available for reading ever again. Yet it should be available to the general public. Without going into too much detail, because it is precisely the inspired selection of minutiae which makes reading Miracle Man a distinct joy, and without producing any samples to validate what follows (due to the aforementioned legal complications), I would like to recommend all mature readers to check it out.
How, pray tell? Well, there are torrents, and these files shared with among the many BitTorrent peer-to-peer networks might contain some miraculous finds. Enjoy!
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Picture of Miracle Man comes courtesy of Wikipedia.
1 comments:
Aww. And here I was thinking you'd fan the fuel of fanboy flame (naks!) by referring to it as Marvelman.
(Disclaimer: I haven't read it either, as Mr. Moore's work tends to be ever so slightly beyond my literary comfort zone.)
Since you're in graphic novel appreciation mode, check out Warren Ellis's Planetary while you're at it. You won't regret it.
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