I skimmed over the last...um...92 posts and don't think this has been posted:

suh-NERK!

Pretty sure they each contributed a story, but yeah, I was wondering abiout the quality of the rest of the writing.

There are some really good stories in Apocrypha and some I make a point to skip whenever I pick the issues up again. One of the best stories is about a young Kid Miracleman (I believe its written by Warren Ellis) realizing he's the only super-powered being in a world of humans. Moore didn't contribute any stories (he was completely done with Miracleman at that point) but Gaiman wrote the interludes between stories. So overall it's not essential, but worth getting just because there's so little Miracleman out there (I even got the pretty much useless Miracleman 3-D special since I'm a crazed completist).

The hardest run to track down is the Olympus arc, issues 11-16. I was trolling on Ebay for months until I finally won the trade (I gave up on single issues because #15 in particular was way out of price range). I remember I had to read it twice the night I finally got it. Amazing stuff. #15 and #16 may be the best two superhero comics I've ever read.

Gaiman's run is really worth reading too. Very different from Moore, but you can tell that he gets this universe. I actually came to Miracleman through Gaiman's Golden Age trade and then went back and pieced it together from there. Hopefully the rights dispute will be sorted out sometime in the next decade. It's always depressing to reach the end of #24 and realize that the comics have run out even though the story hasn't.

It was pretty obviously written by lesser lights than Moore or Gaiman. I don't really remember much else about it.

Pretty sure they each contributed a story, but yeah, I was wondering abiout the quality of the rest of the writing.

As Fone Bone pointed out, Gaiman did the framing and interludes and Ellis did contribute a cuh-REEPY Kid Miracleman story.

Also, a neat little story by Matt Wagner (of Mage and Grendel fame) is in there.

Okay, these comics are like crack. Today, I got:

Ultimate Spidey #60
Astounishing X-Men #1
BoP #67
Robin #125 and #126
Robin: Flying Solo

Crack. Pure crack.

I just bid on a huge lot of Impulse issues.

Doomed. So doomed.

Want all this stuff in TPB, damn it.

Thanks FB & MM.

I need Fray 7 & 8. I have this problem wherein I refuse to buy TPBs of things I have the single issues for. So I've got Fray 1-6, but not 7 & 8, and refuse to get the TPB. I've got Promethea 1-6, 12, and 13, so I refuse to get the first two TPBs. It's an issue.

I would rather read comics than clean, today.

It's an issue.

Hee hee hee.

It's an issue.

Hee hee hee.

Puns abound.

Good things about cleaning, part one:

I just found Nightcrawler Marvel Icons #2. Didn't even know I had it.

Remember when I said that Pete had picked up the new issue of Dork Tower: Clanbook Mopey? Everyone should go buy it. This is why.