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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: About MiracleMan
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Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 02:12:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 24 02:12:09 1985
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The art is only muddy in the color version.  It looks much better in black
and white, but as usual artistic concessions have to made to pander to the
ridiculous prejudices of the fans -- in this case, the anti-b&w prejudice.
In fact, comic coloring is usually so bad that black and white is preferable,
but try to tell that to the average comic buyer....

The writing is good but not great; I think way too much has been made of it.
It certainly doesn't hold up to the same standard I would use to judge a
novel.  It is excellent =for= =a= =superhero= =story=, but that's all.  The
basic concept is good -- I won't spoil it for new readers, but it's worth
waiting for -- but the execution is often pretentious.  I nearly gagged on
the incredibly unsubtle foreshadowing in "Chapter Four".  Alan Moore has
done better work; for instance, V For Vendetta, which, like Marvelman, was
published in the British black and white magazine Warrior.  Incidentally,
the next two issues of Warrior are camera-ready but funding is not
available; it would be a damn shame if this magazine were to go under.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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