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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Simon Williams | Wonder Man 1x02 (2026)
I'll be real I watched the first 5 minutes of the first episode, got too mentally ill because I like him too much and so I finally sent my emails and now I'm doing shopping. This show is so huge for me I'm like frightened to experience it I can feel terrible things happening to my brain. Hashtag my Simon.
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a movie per week in 2025 #2 high sierra (1941)
Going to sleep but I'm kind of obsessed with how every angle of the ending of Miracleman (the Silver Age) is homophobic no matter how you slice it. Either Young Miracleman is gay after being sexually abused as a child in an orphanage and ends the comic becoming a villain, or he isn't gay and Miraclewoman lied about that but don't worry, he isn't actually gay and he's falling in love with a woman but wait, Miracleman is actually bisexual and has realised he does love him, either because he is so far removed from humanity that he no longer has a coherent sexual identity (I don't like this), or because he is so self-absorbed he assumes everyone must love him. Really covering every eventuality to make sure it's always homophobic a little bit.
A lot of people, on Tumblr but also in media and just like, in general, something being provocative for being revolutionary, and this is especially for true for people who believe in sexual liberation but then mistake having fetishes to be a form of praxis and leftist thinking in of itself. Obviously sex and how you enjoy sex are not devoid of political context but political context does not necessitate revolutionary or progressive thought.
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Finished all of Miracleman and my review is that I think someone more familiar with Captain Marvel/Shazam is probably better equipped to analyse him than me, however I think, possibly because we live in the world where the Superman deconstruction is a dime a dozen, Miracleman is just kinda boring. I mean the art is beautiful but conceptually it feels very obvious where the plot is going for the most part, probably because it has been replicated so much by the likes of Invincible, Sentry, Supreme, etc. I guess I expected more from it, both in how much material there was and how much it would stick with me. Alan Davis and Mark Buckingham are beautiful artists and you should definitely look in from a comic art perspective, but in terms in story... I dunno, I think Miracleman really should have been gay. That would have at least been interesting...
They deleted my further thoughts...
My overwhelming feeling is that this comics fanbase is for people who think murder is interesting and violence is actually taboo, and not that it isn't a consistently reoccurring theme in a lot of popular media including the Golden Age of comics. There's mutilation in those comics. Miracleman does not deconstruct superheroes, it deconstructs Moore's irrational hatred of the genre he is willingly participating in.
I saw some people in their analysis claim Miraclewoman is a great manipulator stringing the more stupid Miracleman along to do her bidding, but I don't think that's true, because she is made in Miracleman's image. Never once is she shown to be capable of actually challenging, upsetting or disobeying him. He may as well be dating his clone. And I mean, look at them both.
Maybe this was meant to be the point, that Miracleman has created a world in his own image, but neither Moore nor Gaiman seem willing to actually make that perceived utopia seem bad other than like, I guess some people have inferiority complexes from living around literal gods, but other than that they are totally unwilling to deconstruct and analyse their own vision of utopia. It is both at once too honest and too disingenuous.
I find this comic more insulting the more I think about it. Maybe it's because the 2023 Marvel stuff that concluded the Silver Age arc was not very good, but it has left a sour taste for everything they were trying to do. Maybe the problem is that I'm reading it in a post Invincible, post The Boys, post Garth Ennis and Mark Millar and everyone else who also wants to draw rape and murder and call it deconstruction to cover their own self-indulgence in something naughty, world, or that I'm reading it after Neil Gaiman has been revealed to be a despicable human, but other than the art, which is genuinely gorgeous and I loved seeing what was done with it, I've found this reading experience almost insulting. Insulting in the ways it sought to upset me without wanting to make me really think. Oh, Superman is a God Among Men? He Could Destroy Everything And Rebuild Everything In His Image? How about you deconstruct your own misogyny for once in your miserable life, schmuck.
