Miracleman by Gaiman & Buckingham: The Silver Age - by Neil Gaiman & Mark Buckingham (Paperback)

About the Book

"The wait is over! Decades in the making, Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Mark Buckingham's (Fables) MIRACLEMAN continues the groundbreaking saga touted as the greatest super-hero story of all time! In THE SILVER AGE, Miracleman has created a utopia on Earth where gods walk among men and men have become gods. But when his long-dead friend Young Miracleman is resurrected, Miracleman finds that not everyone is ready for his brave new world! The story that ensues fractures the Miracleman family and sends Young Miracleman on a stirring quest to understand this world - and himself. It's a touching exploration of the hero's journey that ranges from the top of the Himalayas to the realm of the towering Black Warpsmiths - and into the secret past of the Miracleman family!" --

Book Synopsis

The wait is over! Decades in the making, Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and Mark Buckingham's (Fables) MIRACLEMAN continues the groundbreaking saga touted as the greatest super-hero story of all time! In THE SILVER AGE, Miracleman has created a utopia on Earth where gods walk among men and men have become gods. But when his long-dead friend Young Miracleman is resurrected, Miracleman finds that not everyone is ready for his brave new world! The story that ensues fractures the Miracleman family and sends Young Miracleman on a stirring quest to understand this world - and himself. It's a touching exploration of the hero's journey that ranges from the top of the Himalayas to the realm of the towering Black Warpsmiths - and into the secret past of the Miracleman family! Collecting MIRACLEMAN BY GAIMAN & BUCKINGHAM: THE SILVER AGE #1-7 and material from MIRACLEMAN BY GAIMAN & BUCKINGHAM #1-6.

PARENTAL ADVISORY.

Review Quotes

"The long-awaited second book of a planned Miracleman trilogy, Gaiman's lead character is a young man, caught between the terrors of childhood and adulthood, who must reckon with what kind of person he will try to be. The nightmares in "The Silver Age" aren't as deliberately unknowable as those in Gaiman's other classics -- and it's to Gaiman's credit, and the artist Mark Buckingham's, that the cruel monsters and sweet temptations in the book remain just as evocative and ambiguous."
- The New York Times

"Gaiman and Buckingham have crafted a masterful work of metafiction." - Comicbook.com

"The writing and art [of Miracleman: The Silver Age] are masterful, and together deliver some incredible storytelling." - Comic Watch

"Readers have waited 29 years for this story, and the creative team [of Gaiman and Buckingham] recognized that and delivered." - AIPT

"Miracleman: The Silver Age succeeds in art, story, and the synthesis of both." - Major Spoilers

About the Author

As the creator of The Sandman for DC Comics, writer Neil Gaiman has won every major award in the comics industry, as well as the prestigious 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story, the only comic-book writer ever to be awarded this literary honor. Cited by the LA Times as "the greatest epic in the history of comic books," the ten Sandman collections have sold several million copies and remain in print to this day. Having thus made his mark, Gaiman wrote another highly regarded series for DC with Books of Magic. Also noteworthy was his work on Eclipse Comics' Miracleman, which he picked up after close friend Alan Moore left the book. In addition, Gaiman collaborated with Terry Pratchett on the wistful apocalypse novel Good Omens and in 1997 wrote the BBC teleplay Neverwhere, a story he later adapted into a novel. Gaiman's other novels, American Gods and his children's book Coraline, garnered New York Times best-selling status and international acclaim including the Hugo, Nebula and Bram Stoker Awards. In 2001, Gaiman made his first foray into Marvel Comics with his series Marvel 1602, a series in which Gaiman took the core cast of Marvel's Silver Age comics, placed them 400 years in the past and retold their stories in his own inimitable way. Aided by stunning art from Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove, Marvel 1602 was the top-selling comic of the year. Next venturing into film, Gaiman collaborated with artist Dave McKean -- a compatriot from his days on Sandman -- on the feature Mirrormask, a mix of live-action, animation and puppetry that saw its critically acclaimed premiere in late 2005. As a passionate defender of the First Amendment, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund named Gaiman the 1997 Defender of Liberty, and he now serves on that organization's Board of Directors. Born in Porchester, England, Gaiman lives outside Minneapolis with his wife, Mary, and their three children.

Growing up in England, Mark Buckingham always dreamed of drawing comics. In 1987, he inked the best-selling Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo. He went on to contribute to Gaiman's Miracleman, The Sandman, Hellblazer and Shade the Changing Man. Buckingham has been the regular artist on Batman: Shadow of the Bat, The Titans, Peter Parker: Spider-Man and Fables.