Miracleman Book Three Olympus [Paperback]

Alan Moore (Author), John Totleben (Illustrator)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Eclipse Books; First Prinying edition (1990)
• ASIN: B000M772Q6
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,322,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Balanced on the diamond capstone of Olympus", December 11, 2002

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Sam Thursday (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miracleman: Olympus (Paperback)

If there was ever a series that EVERYBODY gets excited about, it's Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman's Miracleman. The first 10 issues are a very entertaining spy story, reworking the title character's origins in classic Moore fashion. The art is a little spotty, unfortunately, and the story suffers for a couple of issues in Book 2: The Red King Syndrome. Olympus is the payoff. Moore and Totleben were made to make comics together, as evidenced by their acclaimed run with Steve Bissette on Swamp Thing, and this is the best work either of them has ever done, and perhaps ever will do, with the super-hero genre. This book is abou 150 pages of the most heartbreakingly beautiful comic art you will ever see in your life; Totleben's baroque line art impressively manages to save Moore's purple prose from caving under its own weight, and Moore has Totleben draw some of the most compelling characters and moving scenes in any medium, all while decorating it with beautifully poetic language. There's a reason that everyone gushes about this series, and Olympus is that reason.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE GREATEST SUPERHERO SAGA EVER TOLD! 'NUFF SAID, October 28, 2000

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George A. Khoury (Princeton) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miracleman: Olympus (Paperback)

Okay, this is not the best comic that Alan Moore has written, that honor goes to FROM HELL. But Miracleman Book 3 is the best superhero comic book ever done. Miracleman is the first on-going series that Moore did, and despite that he wrote 16 issues, which were released over the course of 7-8 years, he left a mark on how we see superheroes. Sure, Watchmen was a great superhero saga but it was and reads like a classic suspense novel. Watchmen is very calculated book, right from the start, and does have a formula; but I get the feeling from reading Miracleman that the same reasoning can not be applied here. Miracleman was a natural writing experience for him, it flows very organically into it's story.

Unlike most superheroes, Miracleman aka Mick Moran is not on a quest to fight justice and save the world. He is a man who's thrown into a situation by his former sidekick,the evil Kid Miracleman, and the British Government which created him. Little by little, Mick Moran begins to find out the secrets of how he became Miracleman, this leads into the events of Miracleman: Olypmus also known as Miracleman Book 3.

Book 3 is a masterpiece. Through the powerful and extremely underrated artistic talents of John Totleben, we experience the climax of this story. Miracleman is destined to battle Kid Miracleman to the death. Mick Moran must also decide what he is to do with his life. And finally, Miracleman decides to make a perfect world, a better earth whether we humans want it or not. He becomes the first superhero who actually tries to solve all the problems we have on this earth. Moore answers a lot of questions about superheroes and believe me, it becomes very hard to keep reading superhero comics after this book.

Recently, people are starting to take note of the quality of this series, which it really deserves. When the original comic book issues were coming out it was a comic that was regularly late but now we can the entire Moore epic and read it in one sitting and see its magic and quality. If you can find these books, enjoy them. If you don't have them, get them! They really are worth the trouble of hunting down and in the end you will feel rewarded.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Arguably one of the BEST comic works out there!, November 15, 1999

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fairgreen ([e-mail]) (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miracleman: Olympus (Paperback)

To say that Alan Moore is just a comic book writer is like saying Beethoven was just a composer! Married to the incredible artwork of John Totleben (whom I've had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with from time to time), Miracleman: Olympus is one of the best readings out there! Miracleman is the true redefining of the comic book super-hero genre! There is nothing more I can say, go out there, search, beg, borrow, or steal (just a joke) a copy and find out for yourself! I promise you won't be disappointed!