A review by tobin_elliott
The Golden Age by Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Very much as he did with Sandman, Gaiman steps into the ring and sidelines the title character, instead showing the new gods' influence on others around them. 

Interesting to see a casually tossed off Moore line of dialogue turned into a full story, but overall, the feeling I got from this is that Gaiman didn't really know how to do anything with the MiracleMess Moore left behind, so set his sights on avoiding it completely.

At least at the start. There's apparently an entire planned out story...

Then, of course, decades later, we got the much-publicized and highly-touted return of Gaiman and Buckingham to Marvel...and then the much-publicized and ongoing Crash of Gaiman...

...so, once again, the book is in limbo.

At this point, Marvel needs to bring in another really good author/artist team who are capable of hitting deadlines and staying out of trouble, and let them re-Moore this entire thing one more time.

MiracleMan is a very good character with a rich history. Too good to be sidelined by mortal failings.