The X-Axis – 16 September 2026
DNX #1. (Annotations here.) I’m really not sure how Cyclops’ jaw is meant to work on that cover. Or where the light’s coming from if it’s glistening on both sides of his visor at once, come to think of it. But anyway. This event seems to be the climax of the 3K storyline that’s been running throughout Jed MacKay’s X-Men run. And I’m rather relieved to see it being kept to just X-Men and a couple of issues of Fantastic Four – DNX, after all, seems to be basically just extra issues of X-Men. But where “Age of Revelation” went wrong was in trying to turn the middle act of an X-Men storyline into a linewide event. By all means let’s keep it focussed.
This first issue is basically the X-Men showing up to stop 3K from releasing the X-virus in Philadelphia, while 3K continue to squabble amongst themselves, and the Alaskan Beast tries to get the Fantastic Four to help out with the plot. It’s fairly straightforward stuff, but I enjoy Federico Vicentini’s art, particularly on the Chairman. There’s a nice angle here with the way he can’t seem to understand why a bunch of people he only enlisted as an alliance of convenience to get this point are looking over their shoulders now that they’re about to become expendable. Despite being openly manipulative with them, he can’t understand why they aren’t true believers.
I’m less sure about the FF material. It’s been so long since Magneto was last a full blown villain that I don’t really buy Reed being this averse to fixing his powers. I can buy that Reed wouldn’t see it as a particularly high priority as long as he could save the guy’s life, or that he wouldn’t understand Magneto’s symbolic significance among mutants. But I don’t buy him seeing it as a moral line akin to making a WMD. Still, it doesn’t look like that’s going to be the core of the FF’s plot – it seems to be an argument that’s mainly there to give Reed something to do in this first issue – so I doubt that’s going to be a problem going forward.
X-MEN #37. (Annotations here.) We seem to be doing the format where the core miniseries has the main plot and the home title is doing the secondary tie-ins. So this is essentially an issue of Kid Omega fighting Cassandra Nova in the margins on DNX proper. But it does serve a point beyond that. For one thing, sticking Kid Omega on his own forces him into the hero role when he doesn’t have anyone to be insubordinate to, and MacKay has been slowly dialling up his tendency to take the heroic line in these situations. The bit about him talking up Magneto’s journey to rejecting his anti-human stance carries more weight if you remember that this is the argument Magneto was having with Quentin just a few issues ago.
It’s also the story that brings Phoenix back into circulation, even though she’s still out in the Shi’ar Empire. We haven’t seen her in any material way since her solo book got cancelled, and the art does a lovely job of dialling up the darkness in the run-up to her appearance so that the firebird makes more impact. I’m still not sure how you make Jean work in the long run as a cosmic powered character, but I suppose at least we already established in “Age of Revelation” that stopping the spread of viruses is beyond her. We’re probably overdue to say something about the state of her and Scott’s marriage, as well, which has barely come up at all in X-Men. But that’s probably a matter for after DNX.
X-MEN: OUTBACK #3. By Steve Orlando, Roi Mercado, Alex Sinclair & Joe Sabino. I have no idea why the cover shows Maddy and Alex in Inferno mode, because this story has nothing to do with that at all. There’s a bit about Madelyne wanting to be useful by going on a mission, and a passing mention of the dreams that are going to lead to her becoming the Goblin Queen, but it doesn’t feel like it really comes to anything much. The story actually involves the X-Men saving a hidden community of outback mutants from the Lava Men, of all people. It’s very much Orlando by numbers, I’m afraid – hidden community of mutants, new character whose personality is pretty much just being right about everything, random continuity reference to a king of the Lava Men who last appeared in 1994. Like most of this series, it’s not terrible, but it does feel pointless.
There was that horrible X-Men and FF mini during the Krakoan era (which never should have saw print) featuring Xavier and Magneto at the end cackling maniacally like 1960s supervillains at Xavier messing with Reed’s mind. That, following Magneto declaring to humanity that “they have new gods now” may have convinced Reed that Magneto might not have changed greatly. You have to watch your marketing when you declare yourself reformed, Magnus.
Re: X-Men Outback 4:
This issue’s cover is odd. The main cover features them scantily clad in a scene that has nothing to do with the story in the issue, while one of the variants features them fully clothed in a scene which actually relates to the plot. Usually it’s the other way around.
Orlando gets the continuity wrong again. Roma’s spell blocked the X-Men from detection powers as well as mechanical devices. We saw this is Uncanny X-Men 235- Hawkshaw tries to use his powers to determine if Maddie is a mutant but he can’t perceive her with his powers only with the naked eye due to Roma’s spell. So Bushranger shouldn’t have been able to find the X-Men through their auras either.
How does Bushranger know that she can be killed if people stop believing in her? Did she run into a precook? Did she get killed and resurrected?
Bushranger’s people were called the Morlocks in the solicits but not in the actual issue. I guess someone realized that the Morlocks are called Morlocks because they live underground.
So Maddie told the X-Men that she was having nightmares of fire. And then when she starts dressing and acting more sexual and talking differently no one thought the cause might be something supernatural?
Why did Alex jump in front of an attack directed at Bushranger a few pages after being told she can’t be killed? Are we to assume he was thinking with his groin?
Basallo claims that the Lava Men can’t be killed. But Molto the Lavs Man was killed by Junku the witch-doctor. Maybe the Lava Men can only die through magic?
The X-Men allow both the mutants and the Lava Men to remember their presence. But that’s not how they usually did things when they were believed to be dead. In X-Men Annual 12 and X-Men 238, Betsy erases people’s memories so no one will remember them. In fact, X-Factor saved the Lava Men from being sterilized by the High Evolutionary around this time, so the X-Men are just lucky X-Factor didn’t find out.
This story was apparently rewritten, since Orlando said in an interview that the Morlocks would be introduced by a new character called “the God of the Rivers” and a new character called Cliffhanger would appear.
This issue was really a waste. This is a story that takes place after Maddie’s transformation into the Goblin Queen has statrted but while she’s mostly herself. There are several ways that could have been played. Alternately, Maddie could fight off the Lava Men with guns and a parallel could be drawn between her and Cable.
This issue could have done a much better job of exploring Alex and Maddie’s relationship. We really didn’t see as much of Alex’s and Maddie’s pre-Goblin Queen relationship as we could have. Maddie and Alex had feelings for each other but they also still had feelings for Scott and Lorna respectively. And Maddie didn’t want to become vulnerable again after what happened with Scott. There were any number of interesting directions Orlando could have gone. But instead, he has Maddie feel jealous over Bushranger because she thinks Bushranger is attracted to Alex when in reality Bushranger has a thing for non-human looking guys. That’s a plot worthy of a bad sitcom.
And this is Alex’s and Maddie’s spotlight issue but neither of them winds up saving the day- instead Storm does. Storm can’t cede the spotlight to anyone else in their spotlight issue?
Storm and Rogue appeared in Avengers Armageddon 4 this week.
Colton really shows what a horrible human being he is in this issue. The Russians launch nuclear missiles at 10 American cities as a result of Colton’s actions. But instead of cleaning up his own mess, he leaves it to the heroes to stop the missiles, rationalizing that they usually save the day.
Storm had trouble stopping missiles equopped with anti-superhuman technology this issue.So I guess that means that she’s back to her pre-krakoa limits.
So Bucky WAS helping Colton and not planning to double cross him? He was too stupid to realize that the Russians might launch their nukes in response to an American superhero destroying their missiles?
If Fury, Jr. handed the anti-superpower technology over to the UN Security Council, how did the Russians get it for missiles directed at the US? I guess we’re supposed to believe that Fury handed it over not to the UN as an organization but to all 5 Permanent members- the US., the U.K., France, Russia and China. That’s incredibly stupid.
Bucky was killed when Ross exploded. They killed Bucky AGAIN? The problem with bringing him back is that even if you undo his death, he still participated in actions that almost led to a nuclear war.
Carol was also caught in the explosion. The previews show Carol with shorter hair. She’s flying on one of the covers to Avengers 1 but only that one. And according to Zdarsky, only one of the new team of Avengers will have the ability to fly My guess is that Carol’s powers will be affected by the explosion.
Colton turns out to have the powers of Miracleman. How is this possible? The Origin Boxes were created by the Maker, and the other Origin Boxes involved heroes that were none either to the Maker or to the 616-Reed Richards. But Miracleman never appeared in 616 or the Original Ultimate Universe.
David’s body is described as “one of many, built by. a god, for a god”. So I guess this Miracleman’s origin is different from Moore’s version.
This has to be the most convoluted way possible to bring Miracleman into the Marvel Universe.
Why would anyone trust Colton after this? He killed civilians in Symarkia. tried to strip sovereign nations of the nuclear weapons but did such a dumb job of it that he nearly caused a nuclear war, and instead of taking responsibility to his actions, left the heroes to stop the nuclear missiles without being 100% sure they could do it.
I imagine that the upcoming conflict between Peter and Jonah is that Jonah doesn’t think Colton should be trusted with all this power after everything he’s done and shouldn’t be an Avenger. If that’s the case. I can’t imagine why PETER thinks Colton should be an Avenger after all this.
In other news, several X-characters appear in this week’s Queen in Black crossovers. Notably, Manifold and Amelia Voght are part of a teleport chain that plays a key role in the plot.
Regarding Avengers 1, in which Wolverine will be a member., the villain will be Mephisto. Now I’m wondering how Captain America 16 will turn out. I hope this mess isn’t Steve’s fault.
I wonder if they’ll be the obligatory Spider-Man One More Day reference.
I enjoyed watching The Chairman befuddled at how everyone immediately expected betrayal when he just wanted to share some champagne with them. Despite his decades-long heel turn, this is the first time he’s actually had to be part of a Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and maybe now he gets why they never win.
What I’ve enjoyed about Armageddon is that every time the internet reaches consensus about what’s going to happen next, something completely different happens. It’s been fun being pleasantly surprised by Red Hulk getting defeated almost immediately, Colton failing out as The Sentry, and no moment where the next set of Avengers comes in to pick up where the A Team failed. I’m willing to give Chip’s Avengers a try – I liked MacKay’s take, hated Aaron’s, and nothing can compare to Hickman, so let’s see what Chip can do on the flagship.
@Michael There already was a One More Day reference in the last Captain America issue.
Everybody excited for Miracleman? Eh?
Am I the only one kind of amused that “the Alaskan Beast” is the one that doesn’t have white fur?
@Chris V: Oh, goodness, I’d forgotten about that. That’s the one where Xavier doesn’t just wipe Reed’s mind of the power-blocking gadget, he makes sure Reed still remembers that he used to know how to build the gadget, just so it’ll torture him, right?
There are times when That Kitty Pryde Line really doesn’t seem to go far enough.
Fun fact about that “4X” miniseries – the book was run by the F4 editorial, not X-Editorial (hence the data pages not being in the Hickman house style).
Which means the credited editor was… Tom Brevoort.
What _is_ the symbolic significance of Magneto?
He is the villain that has convinced himself that he is not such a bad guy and most X-Men decided to go along with it.
Can’t say I understand why.
Bleeding Cool’s Bestseller List for this week is out. DNX came in 1st, X-Men 37 came in 8th, and Uncanny X-Men 35 came in 9th. X-Men Outback 4 didn’t make the list.
DNX 1 did VERY well. It must have been the black bags.
Uncanny X-Men 35 doesn’t seem to have been hurt much by being leaked two weeks early.
In non X-books, Avengers Armageddon 4 came in 4th. It got slightly more than half the sales as DNX 1. While good. it doesn’t seem to have gotten that much of a bump by revealing that Colton is Miracleman.
Daredevil 7 came in 5th. It doesn’t seem to be losing tha much steam.
Queen in Black 4 didn’t make the list. I realize it was a busy week but I guess it makes sense since it’s a Venom crossover and Venom really isn’t that popular these days The initial issues got a big boost from the blind bags but it seems to have faded relatively quickly, unlike Daredevil. (Plus, books with Ewing’s name on it seem to suffer a sales penalty these days.)
Ah, black bag gimmick for DNX #1. That’s a guarantee of a ton of sales right now. I didn’t realize DNX got that treatment. Yes, let’s see how many readers come back for the next issue after they found a recap story inside the bag.
Avengers: Armageddon #4 is still selling for cover price through online retailers even after the Miracleman reveal. That’s not a positive sign for Miracleman’s popularity. I would have expected his first appearance in the Marvel Universe to immediately go to EBay.
At least online, the reactions I’ve seen to the Miracleman twist cap out at “Let’s see I guess,” with “But why?” as the median take. It’s possible there’s a groundswell of enthusiasm in comics shops, but I have my doubts.
Literally no one has ever been asking for a Miracleman crossover. Miracleman has never been particularly important or exciting as a character; Miracleman is interesting as a run of comics (the Alan Moore run at least, the Gaiman run you can take or leave). The sad thing is that what readers of Miracleman wanted was a collection back in print – which Marvel finally managed, in a halfassed kind of way, but Marvel are the absolute worst at keeping any of their books in print.
You knew it was only a matter of time before Marvel brought Miracleman in to the Marvel Universe. It is what Marvel does. Evem Brevoort said it was only a matter of time before Miracleman would end up joining the Avengers. I’m surprised at the lack of interest though. I expected there would be a lot of attention around it (speculators going nuts, fans buying it so they could tell everyone how much they hated it…). Instead, fans are about as excited as they are about the current X-Men line. “Miracleman? Yawn.” I think it shows just how far Marvel’s stock has plummeted in the past four years. It’s probably best that Marvel Comics gets turned into a full-on adjunct of Marvel Studios now. That way Marvel Comics doesn’t have to even pretend to keep going through the motions.
Miracleman has never been a popular character. The Moore comics were acclaimed, and a mystique was built up for them based on their lack of availability. The character itself? Nobody cares. I don’t know why anyone at Marvel would think people care. Frankly, trying to make Miracleman happen strikes me as a desperation move.
DNX 1 was the set-up issue I assumed it would be. Avengers Armageddon was more fun, and I’m fine with seeing where the Miracleman twist goes.
I agree that Miracleman, as a character, is not popular. Before Moore revamped him, he hadn’t been published in 20 years.
And once Moore put him through his paces, the character basically became a symbol. He’s the loss of human free will, the thing Superman never wants to become. He’s barely even in his own book anymore.
As far as alter egos go, Mike Moran was never particularly compelling, a budget Clark Kent type. And he’s basically dead now. I’m not reading Armageddon, but I’m not sure David Colton is any better. Isn’t he just another super solider experiment gone wrong? How many of those do we already have?
So I get why readers aren’t excited about Miracleman joining the Avengers. What I don’t get is why readers aren’t interested in seeing the end of Moore and Gaiman’s plans for the Miracleman series.
It’s the fall of utopia, it’s the rejection of a “perfect world,” told with gorgeous art and complex characterization. I know I’m shouting into the wind at this point, but I’m legit baffled why the Silver Age didn’t make more of an impression. I loved it.
Thom H> What I don’t get is why readers aren’t interested in seeing the end of Moore and Gaiman’s plans for the Miracleman series.
The Dark Age will never happen. Marvel don’t want to work with Gaiman now, and Buckingham asked to be reassigned away from it. And there’s not much point in doing it without them.
I never needed to read an explicit ending spelled out in a continuation of Miracleman; I always thought that the decline and demise of utopia was implied in Moore’s final issue. Why belabor it? But a lot of people seem to want to belabor it, I guess. Anyway, Gaiman clearly never actually wanted to finish it, and now the handful of people who might have been interested in reading it don’t want to now that everyone knows that Gaiman’s a rapist.
Part of the problem is that Colton ISN’T Miracleman. He’s not Mike Moran. He’s Zdarsky’s pet character. And the dialogue implies that his powers have a different origin from Moore’s Miracleman. His body is described as “one of many-built by a god, for a god”.
Plus, his powers seem to work differently from Miracleman’s. Miracleman used “Kimota” to switch from human form to a superhuman body. Colton uses Kimota to switch from one superhuman body to another.
Also, the entire point of Miracleman under Moore was that once Kid Miracleman died, there was nothing that could stop him from taking over the world. But that’s not the case in the Marvel Universe. The villain in the first arc is Mephisto who is vastly more powerful than Miracleman.
Miracleman, though powerful, is still just a Flying Brick. And there are plenty of those in the Marvel Universe. In fact, parts the problem with Armageddon is that technology exists that should be able to hinder Colton but it either doesn’t work or isn’t used because the plot says so. Ross steals a “What If” machine from Doom to predict his enemies actions but it doesn’t work against Colton because The Plot Says So. Fury Jr. has anti-superhuman technology that can hurt Ross’s knock-off Hulks and destroy Sue’s forcefields but nobody suggests using it against Colton because The Plot Says So.
As powerful as Colton is, the heroes of the Marvel Universe have defeated people who are much more powerful. Yet the story acts like there’s nothing they can do against Colton. Even though the Russians are able to hurt him by powering up Ross.
And Colton will be on a team with people like Spider-Man, Daredevil and Wolverine, so he can’t be too powerful if they have something to do.
The “Why aren’t people more excited by Miracleman in the Marvel universe?” discourse feels backward to me, the question should be “WHO would be excited to see Miracleman in the Marvel universe?”
Seriously, who? Have Alan Moore fans ever reacted positively to acclaimed Alan Moore series getting integrated into corporate IPs? This is the Watchmen Babies gag from Simpsons, except that Miracleman is niche enough there isn’t even a casual audience into seeing who’d win in a fight between Batman and Rorschach.
What does Miracleman bring to Marvel that hasn’t been done already with the many, many other Superman/Captain Marvel pastiche characters they already have? Zdarsky has to know this considering the teased Sentry misdirection, the problem is reminding everyone about Sentry just reminds everyone how commonplace and old hat Superman deconstruction stories are by now.
“Flawed Captain America replacement who raises important questions about the dissonance between the American dream and reality” stories aren’t a new thing either– there’s a new one like clockwork every Republican administration– but the disillusioned millennial Captain America take that Colton started off as felt like a fresh spin on a familiar idea. I’m not sure what fresh spin he can bring to Miracleman.
Isn’t that the Superman in the JLA problem though? Why is Batman a member of the JLA when Superman is a member?
Yeah, that was the point of Moore’s story. What would a superhuman be like in the real world where there were no limits placed upon him? The stories has been done countless times since by now. Moore returned to that type of story with Watchmen, making Miracleman more a historical curiosity than the groundbreaking work it would have been in the 1980s.
Placing Miracleman in the Marvel Universe takes away what makes him special, as it’s him existing in a world of “marvels”. It makes him the equivalence of DC’s Superman, except Marvel already has characters who are like Superman (ex. the Sentry), which doesn’t make Miracleman seem special.
Honestly, as far as “Miracleman in the Marvel Universe” goes, they’d have been better going back to the original, pre-Moore Marvelman.
Sure, it was a shameless Captain Marvel (Shazam) rip-off, but I’d say that has more mileage in the MU than Moore’s deconstruction that doesn’t work in a shared universe full of superheroes. Or what they’ve done – applying the suoerficial traits to an entirely different character, leaving only Superman-like powers and a few costuming traits (especially with the redesign for Avengers #1) that didn’t need the “Miracleman IP” attached and may have been better served without it.
What can Miracleman in the Avengers say that would be worth the hype and effort?
Hyperion alone has covered:
1) Last son of a dying planet trying to save his adopted world
2) Power corrupts, absolute power is really fun
3) Well-meaning authoritarianism still fails in the long run because it opens the gateway to fascism
4) Flying brick bad guy
5) Tool of the government (i.e. what if the rocket was found by the military?)
Blue Marvel got the: “what if Superman level but Black at the wrong time and forced to go underground for decades?”
Gladiator gets the “What if Superman stayed with the Legion, and is also fanatically loyal to the space bird empire?”
Sentry is “Superman but with a whole basket of mental health problems, his worst nemesis is really himself, and he usually makes things worse.”
So here’s good ol’ Colton, post 9/11 Captain America who’s run the loyalty—>disillusionment gauntlet + use the powers to try and change the world by eliminating nukes and now he’s got whatever mixed bag of Miracleman powers are in this body, and he’s part of a street-level Avengers team who have about as much chance of stopping him if he goes rogue as a kitten does of stopping Fin Fang Foom.
So does he use his massive powers to save a world that presumably hates and fears him, is he a Symbol of Hope, is he going to Change the World?
Why Miracleman when Sentry exists? When there’s six different Hyperions to choose from? When Blue Marvel is on speed-dial? What will make him different, unique, and story-worthy? That’s what I’m waiting to see. What story does Chip have that requires this character and all the buildup?
Also, who would win in a fight between Sentry and Miracleman?
Marvel should give the Dark Ages to Grant Morrison.
Marvel should give the Dark Age a rest.
@Luis Dantas – the reason people like a reformed Magneto is because Claremont spent years reforming him bit by bit and the Silver Age X-men issues don’t count to X-men fans.
That second part isn’t just me saying that, look at the X-plain the X-men podcast. They spend a ridiculous amount of time going through issues in groups in the 90s, but they spent 1 episode going over Silver Age X-men. The Roy Thomas and Neil Adams stuff is decent enough (probably verges on good if we’re comparing it to its peers at the time), but while Silver Age X-men have a few decent ideas kicking around, it is a pretty mediocre. And those writers who do use Silver Age X-men stuff have given us a stray one panel reference to Xavier loving Jean as part of Onslaught’s origin. That story has aged worse than milk kept out of a refrigerator.
Also add into the fact that Magneto’s early 90s heel reversion was kicked off in non-X books (like John Byrne in West Coast Avengers) and it feels like bitter writers (and I’m guessing editors too) were aiming to chip away at the stories Claremont wrote.
And you also can’t get away from Western society portraying Magneto-like resistance a lot more favorably than Xavier-like integration for real world events. I can’t believe that hasn’t been a factor.
I like the idea of Morrison writing the Dark Age. I wonder if they’d be into it enough to come out of retirement(?) again.
“Miracleman will never be finished” is something I’ve heard for decades. Just because it’s got the Gaiman stink on it now doesn’t mean it will forever.
Can anyone really see modern-day Morrison writing Miracleman: The Dark Ages? I know they went through a brief second “dark ages” period with Nameless and Annihilator in the early-2010s, but the sort of deconstruction of superheroes found with Miracleman is something Morrison has opposed for years. I also realize they wrote a Miracleman short story, but that was a period of the Morrison who would write Arkham Asylum, a very different version of Grant Morrison when they had been trying to write in the style expected of British comic writers of the 1980s. I can’t see them wanting this assignment (even with the added incentive of sticking it to Moore, who apparently pulled rank and said he didn’t like Morrison’s short story, which was the reason it remained unpublished until Marvel got the rights to Miracleman). If they did, I’m sure it would look very different than anything anyone would expect from the Miracleman finale.
Absolutely. Humanity regains control of its fate? A hopeful rebellion against an unfair regime? Defending Earth against alien aggression? An enlightened generation of Miracle-children banding together to save the day? That’s got “Grant Morrison” written all over it.
I bet it would make Uncle Alan mad again, too, which would be funny. 🙂
If they do it, I hope they give it to someone a little newer to the industry — a Deniz Camp, maybe? The setup Gaiman left feels pretty cleanly in their wheelhouse. I just don’t think having someone from Gaiman’s generation do it would serve the entire point of the story.
Grant Morrison is a low rent Alan Moore.
The covers of the X-Men issues that serve as the epilogue to DNX have been published on AIPT.
The cover of X-Men #41 seems to suggest Beast’s death, but I think it was altered to mislead readers. It’s likely that instead of his glasses (which certainly aren’t such a defining feature of Hank) and blue hair, we’ll see Cyclops’ visor; he’s depicted among the other characters but is drawn only from the waist up, without legs.
And on the cover of #42, he’s drawn alongside Jean inside the Phoenix, but he could easily be erased.
I wouldn’t be so quick to assume the covers are fake. I mean, Marvel admitted to altering the cover of Avengers Armageddon 5 to hide the fact that Colton was Miracelman but they didn’t try to hide that Colton was in the issue and claim that Sentry would be instead.
On the other hand, I’ll admit that that Scott’s secondary mutation to make his legs disappear is concerning. And Jean and Magento arguing over the direction of the team would be more interesting if Scott wasn’t there to mediate.
In other news. it looks like Magneto WILL be restored during DNX. And the statue of Trask seems to be a part of the Chairman’s plan.
I don’t want to see Gaiman’s Dark Age anymore; but I don’t want to see anyone who isn’t Gaiman trying to do a Gaiman pastiche. Best to just cast it into the proverbial dustbin of history.
As for Miracleman in the Avengers, eh, I find it hard to care.
Something very different from what everyone expects is a good argument for Morrison.
The plan from the beginning was that Gaiman would write the Silver Age then hand it off to someone else for the Dark age.
Bearing in mind that the only thing we know about The Dark Age is that Bates would’ve come back and brought MM’s utopia crashing down, I feel like the only modern writer who could pull that off with any sense of gravitas and feeling would be Deniz Camp. Morrison would make it too cerebral, too detached, and then it’s just another tiresome apocalypse story.
There are multiple factors that could bring down the utopia, either singly or together: Bates returning, aliens attacking, Miracle children rebelling, humanity rising, whatever Dickie is up to.
I like Camp, but I feel like he tried to juggle too much by the end of Absolute Martian Manhunter. If I want someone who can keep a bunch of plates spinning at the same time, then I’d pick Morrison. But that’s just me. Maybe Camp multitasked better in The Ultimates.
>The plan from the beginning was that Gaiman would write the Silver Age then hand it off to someone else for the Dark age.
Source? I can recall Gaiman talking about his long-range plans and that does not jibe with my memories at all.
Bates came back in the Silver Age, and seems to have been dealt with.
Miracleman has *already* been part of the MU, or the multiverse at least. He was killed by the Fury on Earth-238.
It will be quite a wait if Camp does end up being the writer for the Miracleman finale, as he is exclusive to DC now. I guess after waiting all these years, the Miracleman fans can wait out a contract too. I really do not believe that Marvel is planning to finish Miracleman any longer. I think they were waiting on Gaiman finishing the original Miracleman story before introducing him in to the Marvel Universe and have decided it is never going to be completed, so they should move ahead. Maybe someday Marvel will grow tired of Miracleman (if he’s not moving the proverbial needle) and sell the rights to IDW or somebody, and in the year 2036, the Miracleman saga will finally be completed to the joy of the small minority of Miracleman fans still alive.
I wish Camp would continue his Assorted Crisis Events instead of wishing for him to be wasting his time about a nearly-dead property from the ‘80s, as it’s the best comic that’s been published in years. Camp stated that he can still work on Crisis while under his DC exclusive contract, but no further issues have been on the schedule, and the last issue that was published could serve as a final issue, which worries me that he won’t be returning to it…anymore than Hickman truly plans to return to Black Monday Murders.
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