Watchmen, for example — are so great they break out of their genre, becoming mainstream cultural touchstones. Miracleman was almost one of them — only it was even better. The saga of Miracleman is too convoluted to get into here, but the short version goes like this: the great comics writer Alan Moore took an obscure superhero and turned him into the tragic protagonist of a dark, psychedelic world. Another legendary comics writer, Grant Morrison, once wrote a script for Miracleman, only to have it killed, allegedly by Moore himself.
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