Kimota! Marvelman/Miracleman Returns!

Miracelman/Marvelman is to be *finally* reprinted next year. Miracleman, as it was known in the states, was a fantastic series written by Alan Moore and published in the states by the now defunct Eclipse Comics starting in 1985. It was all kinds of ground breaking and has been out-of-print since its original run. Thanks to the resolution of some long standing legal issues and Marvel securing the rights to Marvelman, the series can finally be reprinted and the story can be finished by Moore's successor, Neil Gaiman.

More LOEG Next Year

CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging London during 1968, a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice, and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars. The vicious gangster bosses of London’s East End find themselves brought into contact with a counter-culture underground of mystical and medicated flower-children, or amoral pop-stars on the edge of psychological disintegration and developing a taste for Satanism. Alerted to a threat concerning the same magic order that she and her colleagues were investigating during 1910, a thoroughly modern Mina Murray and her dwindling league of comrades attempt to navigate the perilous rapids of London’s hippy and criminal subculture, as well as the twilight world of its occultists. Starting to buckle from the pressures of the twentieth century and the weight of their own endless lives, Mina and her companions must nevertheless prevent the making of a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the antichrist.

Alan Moore on Comedy Central Podcast

Bleeding Cool has reported that Alan Moore can be heard on Utter Shambles, Robin Ince and Josie Long's podcast on the Comedy Central UK website. It reminds of the various audio projects that Alan Moore has produced in the past such as The Highbury Working, Birth Caul, Angel Passage, Snakes and Ladders. These are all "occult workings" presented under the banner of The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels.

Here's the first track from The Highbury Working, a beat seance that conjures up the ghosts of the London borough, Highbury.

More LOEG on the horizon

I was beginning to wonder about this... From ICv2:

At the San Diego Comic-Con Top Shelf Comix revealed that the second 72-page installment of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century epic by Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Kevin O’Neill will be released in 2011.  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Chapter 2: Paint It Black takes place in swinging London in 1969.