Marvelman

"Marvelman was a UK publisher's replacement for Captain Marvel who experienced some trailblazing deconstruction from Alan Moore and Alan Davis in the 80s- - work that's held right up there with WATCHMEN and DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Complicated legal dispute have kept the character in limbo for many, many years, though. Ironically, legal action by Marvel actually forced a prior right’s holder, Eclipse, to rename the character Miracleman at one point (a name I personally prefer - - it’s got a nicer ring to it.) The Moore/Davis issues (as well as those by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham) have been out of print because of this and, thus, are only available to those willing to pay the obsoridnate prices for marked-up back issues."

Finally after many years, the 'Marvelman' comics are about to be released by Marvel who owns the rights. Now this may be blasphemy to say, but does anyone else feel, like I do, that Marvelman was very overrated as a comic book?

I know there are people who think that Alan Moore is God when it comes to writing comics but I am not one of them. Much of his contribution to the medium are truly ground breaking but he is hardly an original thinker. 'Watchmen' was a re-imagining of characters that Charlton sold to DC. 'Marvelman' is just the dark side of the Captain Marvel family which itself was the sunniest series there has ever been about superheroes.

I have a feeling that once people get into these newly released stories that they will be asking what the big deal was after all these years. I know I stopped reading them about seven issues in and that was a tough slog to even get to that point. Tell me what you think.