Name: Mister Miracle
ISBN: 9781401283544

Tom King

Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you've read before. Scott Free is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. So great, he escaped Granny Goodness' gruesome orphanage and the dangers of Apokolips to travel across galaxies and set up a new life on Earth with his wife, Big Barda. Using the stage alter ego of Mister Miracle, he has made quite a career for himself showing off his acrobatic escape techniques. He even caught the attention of the Justice League, who has counted him among its ranks. You might say Scott Free has everything--so why isn't it enough? Mister Miracle has mastered every illusion, achieved every stunt, pulled off every trick--except one. He has never escaped death. Is it even possible? Our hero is going to have to kill himself if he wants to find out. From Hugo Award nominated writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads, the team behind The Sheriff of Babylon, comes an ambitious new take on one of Jack Kirby's most beloved New Gods in Mister Miracle! One of the best-reviewed series of the year and already a classic in the making! Collects Mister Miracle #1-12.

Mister Miracle

André Nóbrega

4,5
The ending is good, everything before that is marvellous, the fusion of being a super-hero / responsible for people's safety with being a husband and a parent is ingenious.
This is what we need from a super-hero comic after the era of reboots, events and overwhelming all-encompassing wars. Stories - much like King's Vision before this - that can make us believe in super-heroes again, not because we forget the real world but because they are - as one could thing of back in the war and cold war times - a credible part of our world, with struggles that are not only far metaphors of ours, but really comparable to what people deal with, only with a super-hero scale and stakes.

Sans

Re-read as single issues. Even more amazing the second time around.

Kireth Sandhu

"Stand."
"...Standing"
This one was a bit of head-scratcher, but as always internet reading and articles cleared things up. I was definitely intrigued to know more about one of DC's more background heroes, who also belongs to the celestial and whacky "Fourth World" of Jack Kirby. Having heard so much about this famous run on the ordinary man turned escape artist Scott Free/ Mister Miracle, I decided to give it a shot and wish there was just a bit more context at the start. I did like the opening origin story, and the art throughout was delightful; nine-panel pages which flow seamlessly and have a cartoony but realistic style alongside some weird 'fizzles'. Following big bad (dad) Darkseid's acquisition of the Anti-Life Equation, our protagonist tries to escape from Death by committing suicide and the entire run deals with his PTSD, depression and individual coping mechanisms through combat, his family in Big Barda and the insane worlds in which he lives in. Whilst this overlap between mundanity suburbia and cosmic warfare sometimes dulled the suspense, the colourful supporting cast and rhythmic sense of it all does work. There is a clear and really beautiful conclusion, and I fully support the creative team for writing a single-story comic that doesn't want or need to spawn a series, spinoffs etc. Like Darkseid, it just is.