10 Comics That Mocked The Reader

Although many would regard Watchmen as the pinnacle of Alan Moore's ability to parody both the superhero genre and affectionately mock the audience who adore it, it's actually the ever-underrated Miracleman series takes that award.

Having long been the unlucky subject of comic's internal politics - changing from the old Fawcett Comics-owned Captain Marvel comics, to Marvelman after a legal dispute with DC, to Miracleman after the series was bought up by Eclipse Comics, who feared backlash from Marvel were the series to contain the company's name.

In the midst of all of this, it's understandable that the comic slowly veered from being a conventional superhero experience, to a series filled to the brim with violence, depravity, and existential crises galore - all tailor-made to remind us that the superheroes we covet would consider us completely inferior beings.

As such, Miracleman not only basically enslaves the human race, but also repeatedly shows that his immense powers have resulted in him losing basically all of his morals, asking his ordinary wife if she'd like him to give her powers so she could come live with him - ignoring that firstly he left her, secondly he'd been openly sleeping with another superhero, and thirdly that not having superpowers doesn't make you lesser. By it's end, the series is definitely making digs at you for ever supporting Miracleman in the first place - and you can't totally blame it.