Moore’s recreation definitely looks more modern. It has big onomatopoeic sound effect texts and anything not drastically important to the storyline or in the background is usually all the same color. I am not familiar with any terms related to old comic book illustration, but when you think of “old school” comics, this 1956 version is a good example. In his biography by Lance Parkin, he recalls reading Marvelman for the first time at the age of twelve and wondering what would happen when Mickey Moran grew up and forgot about his superhero life and his “magic word” (20-21).īecause the original comic and Moore’s are bound together in this book, the reader also gets to see the differences in the styles of the illustrators and how comics have evolved over the years. I really like this book because it has both a prologue from the original 1956 Miracleman and the one recreated by Alan Moore. The familiarity of a superhero battling evil villains as well as his own internal struggles makes it fairly easy to follow along while still not being entirely predictable.

The story follows Mike Moran as he rediscovers his super powers as well as an old friend who is not so happy to see Mike, and some new enemies keen on eradicating the Miracleman family once and for all. Since my previous comic book/ graphic novel experience only includes monthly Lego magazines until I was 13 years old, I think Miracleman, Book One: A Dream of Flying was a good one with which to start. I'm taking a seminar all about Alan Moore this semester and we have to post our book reviews online sooo.

Miracleman, Book One by Alan Moore