You know Miracleman's weird publication history actually makes it the perfect storm of a superhero deconstruction. Miracleman is called Miracleman because of copyright issues with Marvel Comics. Before that he was called Marvelman. Even while Moore was writing the series it was called Marvelman. And Marvelman was a character from the 50s/60s who Moore was reimagining who was a knockoff of the original Captain Marvel from the 40s who was a knockoff of Superman so blatant that DC sued and won and eventually obtained the rights to and renamed Shazam because by the time they had the rights Marvel Comics had created their own Captain Marvel and I guess a copyright infringement character doesn't have rights to their own name.
So Miracleman is essentially Superman, the basic concept of the superhero, but is also a second cousin knockoff with absolutely no originality to speak of to set him apart from the basic concept of the superhero idea. So a deconstructionist story about him is deconstructing the origin of the idea of the superhero while also having a cartoonish knockoff avatar to express everything that is ridiculous about the idea of the superhero even while the character is essentially an in-story god.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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