Reddit reviews Miracleman: The Golden Age

Buy the first three volumes of Miracleman right now. It's one of the best things Alan Moore ever wrote. First two volumes are a little slowish in some ways but they're still good and absolutely worth the payoff for volume 3.

After Moore's run was over he handed it over to Gaiman and Mark Buckingham and their first volume is another work of genius but they never were able to finish their other planned volumes. Since Marvel bought the rights to Miracleman/Marvelman they're now letting Gaiman and Buckingham finish their original run, which will be published throughout this year.

I listened to it. As expected the dialogue was confusing at first, it was hard to tell who was speaking or thinking. But once I got what was going on, it was fun.

Imagining this sort of Utopia and talk of abolishing work made me think of Gonzalo's speech from The Tempest:

> No occupation; all men idle, all;

> And women too, but innocent and pure;

> No sovereignty;--

> ...

> All things in common nature should produce

> Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,

> Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,

> Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,

> Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,

> To feed my innocent people.

People were imagining post-scarcity societies, even if on stage it was from the mouth of a fool.

I think it's valuable to try and imagine a utopia when popular imagination is filled with dystopian thinking.

You may also be interested in Neil Gaiman's run of Mircaleman where he imagines a society with no money, disease or ecological problems and explores what sort of stories people would have.