The story begins with Mister Miracle attempting to kill himself and being rushed to hospital by his wife, Big Barda. As the adopted son of Darkseid, Scott spent his life being tortured. Mister Miracle, called Scott Free for his superhuman ability to escape from any trap, settled down on Earth after running away from Apokolips. From the very first page, King does an excellent job of introducing the concept to new readers. Read on to find out why I think Mister Miracle is one of the most important comics of the decade.īefore reading the graphic novel, I only knew a little about Mister Miracle and Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. Expanding on the universe of New Gods and Old Gods that legendary writer Jack Kirby created, Mister Miracle takes the reader of a mind-warping journey through the eyes of one of DC’s most obscure superheroes and reinvents him for a modern audience. What is the nature of reality? Is it what we touch, taste, smell and hear? Or is it simply the brain creating images for us in an endless cycle? These are the kind of questions that are asked in Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ Mister Miracle series, a graphic novel I’ve been waiting to read for a long time.
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