If you like the character and his early comics, more power to you. I’m not telling you what to like. However, this site is about my thoughts and I want to like Miracleman and company. And yet I can’t.
Miracleman, formerly Marvelman, is in the hands of Marvel Comics, and now about to be added to the Marvel Universe. Or possibly multiverse. I haven’t followed the Armageddon storyline (not to be confused with the DC storyline “Armageddon: 2001”), and I don’t know who David Colton is, or his powers, or any of that. However, a solicit and article on Bleeding Fool gave me some rather odd news:
On stands now, AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON #4, the penultimate issue of the five-issue event series by Chip Zdarsky, Delio Diaz and Frank Alpizar that ushers in the next era of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, delivered a game-changing revelation: the source of the Origin Box that gave David Colton his mysterious—and unparalleled—powers was none other than MIRACLEMAN.
A pioneer of modern super hero storytelling, MIRACLEMAN remains one of the medium’s most revolutionary characters. Now, the character returns in the Marvel Universe as his awesome power finds a new champion in David Colton, the 21st-century Captain America introduced in the opening arc of Chip Zdarsky’s acclaimed Captain America run.
Colton’s transformation couldn’t come at a more pivotal moment. AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON is reenergizing the Marvel Universe—and comic shops with sold-out printings—as the Avengers face a battle that will forever change how the world sees them as protectors. Now, David Colton assumes the mantle of MIRACLEMAN, who once deconstructed the very idea of what it means to be a super hero, to help usher in this new age. But as Colton embraces his new power and brings it to the forefront of the fight, will there be an Earth left standing to avenge?
I have a bunch of issues with this, but before I can explain why we need to be on the same page. (No puns were intended in that last sentence.) So first we need to watch a video from Owen Likes Comics about the history of a character that started out as Captain Marvel’s British replacement, and moved into the same old deconstruction nonsense by a guy who can’t stop himself from making them. Then I can get into just why this doesn’t make any sense, and frankly bothers me a bit.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 25, 2026 in Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged antiheroes, commentary, heroes and villains, writing tips.
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