Guest Special K Report post Posted August 1, 2003 I know the general score on miracleman, I know that I'm a recent Alan Moore Junkie, I know that I want this series a whole whole bunch. I know that there's a big brouhaha over the rights. I just want to read the Fucking Story. Will it ever be reprinted? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Steviekick Report post Posted August 2, 2003 It's pretty complicated thanks to all the legal problems but here's what I think happened. Neil Gaiman was awarded the rights to Miracleman as part of his settlemen with Todd McFarlane over the cahracters he created for the Spawn Comics (Medeival Spawn/Angela). I think there is an appeal or something, but it will most likely wind up in the hands of Gaiman, and he has expressed interest in publishing it again in the forseeable future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest J*ingus Report post Posted August 2, 2003 Someone on here once posted a link that had jpegs of almost the entire Alan Moore run of the series, what was that site again? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonX 0 Report post Posted August 5, 2003 It's pretty complicated thanks to all the legal problems but here's what I think happened. Neil Gaiman was awarded the rights to Miracleman as part of his settlemen with Todd McFarlane over the cahracters he created for the Spawn Comics (Medeival Spawn/Angela). I think there is an appeal or something, but it will most likely wind up in the hands of Gaiman, and he has expressed interest in publishing it again in the forseeable future. Neil never sued for MM in his lawsuit. He sued for and won full rights to Angela and a couple of other characters (including that old hobo who mentored Spawn) and back royalties. He WAS offered a chance at the penalty phase to swap Angela and the royalties for MM (a deal Todd agreed legally to several years back but then refused to go through with) but declined do to the fact that Miracleman's UK publisher had recently made a rather bombshell announcement that he owns MM do to a reversal clause in his contract with Eclipse that said that MM reverted to him during the period between Eclipse going under and Todd buying the company's characters (including MM). Neil's logic for not taking the option was if the UK publisher's claim was true, then Todd never really owned any claim over MM and as a result would have gotten Angela and company back while Neil would have ended up with jack shit and would have traded away the only leverage he had to try and get the character away from the sell-out McFarlane... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
