Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman collaboration for Marvel has been reworked to become "a new work" for modern times, says the artist
2023 saw the first new Miracleman material from Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham in 30 years, with the two comic creators returning to the groundbreaking series to finally begin the completion of a storyline they began all the way back in 1990. But completing the so-called “Silver Age” wasn’t as simple as picking up where the two had left off, according to Buckingham.
“I basically redrew everything from The Silver Age arc that had previously been published, in order to make it a new work for now,” the creator told an audience at Emerald City Comic Con 2024 on Saturday evening, describing the experience as “terrifying, and it took forever. I have drawers full of artwork at home, because every time I would make a start, something else would come along that would derail us, and I would come back to it and was like, ‘no, that doesn’t work. I’ll try again.’”
He explained, “I think part of the problem was trying to revisit something that is so important to you, there’s a part of me that was still trying to make it look like it did then but superficially refresh it, and that just wasn’t working. So, because Neil and I had been working on the new scripts, I was able to say, ‘Okay, I’m actually going to draw issues 4-6, the new ones, and then go back and draw issues 1-3 so that it all makes sense.’ It was a very fluid feast to work on, and it took a lot of time, and in the end, it’s very satisfying and it feels like a work of now.”
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