Comparing Marvel’s Remastered ‘Miracleman’ to Eclipse Original
There’s a little bit of a controversy brewing over Marvel’s reprinting of the Miracleman series originally published by Eclipse.
The hubhub is because of the remastered coloring on the latest version. It’s not going to look like the original colors when reprinted.
Most will argue it will look better. Traditionalists will argue that it shouldn’t change.
Marvel’s way of thinking is making the colors look better will increase sales. Those who are fans of the original series will probably buy it either way [enhanced coloring or not], but new readers may be put off by the original colors and pass. So the thought process becomes do what will increase sales.
I probably first became aware of this mindset when Ted Turner started colorizing old films that held the rights to. Turner did this to increase ratings when he aired the colorized movies and to increase video sales.
George Lucas made changes to his Star Wars films enhancing special effects and making it clear that Han didn’t shoot first.
Enhancing effects on the original Star Trek tv series was also done to help the show remain popular in syndication.
I’ve always figured as long as the originals are still available in their original form, then what’s the harm of an “enhanced” version?
Saw this linked in a tweet and I must say, sorry what? Miracleman was originally published as a black and white only strip in Warrior before Eclipse picked it up and colorized the story. IMHO Marvel’s done a far better job of adding color to Leech’s and Davis’s artwork.
You make an excellent point about it originally being in black and white. It’s funny how people think that the version that they fell in love with is THE version. As I said in the post, as long as the original version(s) are still available, what’s the harm in a new version? Thanks for the comment!