I tried to write this nicely but the title really says it all.
There’s a set of 20 pages on scans daily from the Todd McFarlane entry in the Image Hardcover of a few years back – Man Of Miracles.
The long and winding history of why the great Marvelman / Miracleman story is not on the shelves of your local comic shop is too long and convoluted to touch on here, but I’ve written on it in the past, and there’s much more online here, here and here for starters.
(via LMG)
Dirk at Journalista posts up this one as his scan of the day from Hack/Slash #12 and calls it the third weirdest crossover of all time after the Archie/Punisher and Scout/Beanworld. Can you guess who it is?
(Their eternal Rage, embodiments of Hate, Spite filled babble – give up? Click here for the scan or just head to the Devil’s Due page.)
Of course, personally I think this one makes it on as weird crossover #4. Because crashing in at #3 is the whole idiocy that was Total Eclipse. Wherein a medium sized independent company in 1988 decides to publish a big cross company continuity intense crossover thingy. So you had the entire roster of characters at Eclipse, including Marvelman, Airboy and Beanworld, shoehorned into one hideous clunker of a story. When it was first solicited I remember everyone saying it wouldn’t work. And everyone was right.
Although it did have the first Neil Gaiman Marvelman/Miracleman strip in it. Which was nice.
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