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Mister Miracle (2017)
Mister Miracle (2017) #10
Darkseid has put an offer on the table— something that can end the war between New Genesis and Apokolips once and for all. The stakes are high, but peace is important. Mister Miracle finds himself caught having to make a decision that won’t just change the new life he’s been building, but potentially the entirety of the universe.
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 1, 2018
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August 3, 2018
Once this series is finished, I’m going to read it again at once and see what clues I probably missed about how this is going to end.
December 30, 2018
I absolutely loved this series. Issue 10 so far has been the most intimate issues in King's Mister Miracle. The stakes are so high, so is the sacrifice. It's not anymore the big war, it is a more personal battle that could dictate the course of the war of the New Gods.
Two more issues to go!
Two more issues to go!
August 3, 2018
This issue just would not stop with the knock out punches. So many scenes here just felt so real and true to stuff I've gone trough in my own life, even as recent as the last two weeks, that I just had to set the book down and take in what I was feeling for a minute. I enjoy other comics and some of them have moments that really stick with me until I get the next issue, but this? This series has things in it that I don't think I'll be able to stop thinking about for years.
August 6, 2018
This issue struck a chord again and felt very personal. Unsure if that plays with a wider audience, but I love this series. Never thought I'd go for a superhero book that is more the mundane, domestic, and everyday life of a character, but does it ever work wonders for me.
August 4, 2018
Some real shit
July 27, 2020
The way King keeps this story’s emotion rooted here on Earth while the plot takes place in “Hell” is impressive.
August 9, 2018
4.3 Stars. I think this has been the most consistent series I've read in the past year. Tom King is a great story teller, it's sad there's only two more issues. I can't wait to see how it ends!
November 6, 2019
Hey, kids! It's another 22 pages of whining! That's worth $3.99, right?
This literally is a 22 page argument which makes Mister Miracle seem rather loathsome. I mean, yeah, he was raised in hell and that's gotta be tough. But of all the people raised in hell, he got out! He endured it less than anyone else! Including Big Barda.
It's weird. Normally you read a heroic tale because the person in the tale, however ordinary they may be on the outside, they have something extraordinary within them that sets them apart from your average joe. The thrill of a heroic tale is that we get to imagine that we, ourselves, in that very situation would behave in a similarly heroic fashion (with or without superpowers).
This Mister Miracle seems to be the opposite of that. He doesn't seem to care about doing what's right and he has to be dragged into it, more or less. And this is despite having an extraordinary edge.
So. Yeah. This ain't paying off (for me, YMMV obviously).
This literally is a 22 page argument which makes Mister Miracle seem rather loathsome. I mean, yeah, he was raised in hell and that's gotta be tough. But of all the people raised in hell, he got out! He endured it less than anyone else! Including Big Barda.
It's weird. Normally you read a heroic tale because the person in the tale, however ordinary they may be on the outside, they have something extraordinary within them that sets them apart from your average joe. The thrill of a heroic tale is that we get to imagine that we, ourselves, in that very situation would behave in a similarly heroic fashion (with or without superpowers).
This Mister Miracle seems to be the opposite of that. He doesn't seem to care about doing what's right and he has to be dragged into it, more or less. And this is despite having an extraordinary edge.
So. Yeah. This ain't paying off (for me, YMMV obviously).
January 18, 2020
Talk about a difficult decision made satisfying. It's basically the Abraham and Issac story. (Little warped but still). I feel like everyone would write an interesting version of that story if they were allowed to. I should write a warped version of the Abraham and Issac story.
That could be fun.
It could be insightful.
Just as this issue of Miracle Man is both fun and insightful.
The drama in this story line is interesting in how not dramatic it is. Saga is probably my favorite thing ever. The idea of this drama being caught in that series would have been tonally (and totally) different than here.
Saga would have treated it as dire, as it should be.
This story treats in as dire, but the characters don't act dire.
They are instead, relaxed, agitated, burned out.... that's actually how I would describe a lot of characters in this run.
Everyone is burned out.
Wasn't super sure where it was going. S'pecially when the cashier starting getting all SPOCK on us with the "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Or is that more of an Ozymandias philosophy? (I cannot be bothered to go to Wikipedia this late- even though I never established a time when I was writin- Gah! Fine. *One Wiki search later* Wrath of Khan came out first.
This series is quite nuanced in its portrayal of suicide and the victims around victims of suicide. It's that kind of nuance you don't see very often not just in comics, but anywhere.
I have long believed comics to be the first to get a lot of things right. Because it's not an especially gigantic industry (at least at the moment in comparison to young adult novels, movies, television, video games, music etc).
I think it's because of the limitations in audience, one is allowed to get away with newer concepts a little sooner than the rest of the industries.
If Mister Miracle had been made into a film prior to this comic's existence, I can't help but believe it would look closer in tone and aesthetic to Jack Kirby's original ideas and stories.
And that's not a bad thing.
In fact, I would go so far as to say, that's a great thing.
But that we have this here... this Tom King run on Mister Miracle in its place. This intimate overview of anxiety and choices. An overview of depression and aimless journeys found within each day.
I have a hard time believing this could have existed anywhere else first than in comics.
Comics push the boundaries first.
That could be fun.
It could be insightful.
Just as this issue of Miracle Man is both fun and insightful.
The drama in this story line is interesting in how not dramatic it is. Saga is probably my favorite thing ever. The idea of this drama being caught in that series would have been tonally (and totally) different than here.
Saga would have treated it as dire, as it should be.
This story treats in as dire, but the characters don't act dire.
They are instead, relaxed, agitated, burned out.... that's actually how I would describe a lot of characters in this run.
Everyone is burned out.
Wasn't super sure where it was going. S'pecially when the cashier starting getting all SPOCK on us with the "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Or is that more of an Ozymandias philosophy? (I cannot be bothered to go to Wikipedia this late- even though I never established a time when I was writin- Gah! Fine. *One Wiki search later* Wrath of Khan came out first.
This series is quite nuanced in its portrayal of suicide and the victims around victims of suicide. It's that kind of nuance you don't see very often not just in comics, but anywhere.
I have long believed comics to be the first to get a lot of things right. Because it's not an especially gigantic industry (at least at the moment in comparison to young adult novels, movies, television, video games, music etc).
I think it's because of the limitations in audience, one is allowed to get away with newer concepts a little sooner than the rest of the industries.
If Mister Miracle had been made into a film prior to this comic's existence, I can't help but believe it would look closer in tone and aesthetic to Jack Kirby's original ideas and stories.
And that's not a bad thing.
In fact, I would go so far as to say, that's a great thing.
But that we have this here... this Tom King run on Mister Miracle in its place. This intimate overview of anxiety and choices. An overview of depression and aimless journeys found within each day.
I have a hard time believing this could have existed anywhere else first than in comics.
Comics push the boundaries first.
December 11, 2018
It's hard raising a child.
It's even harder raising a child when you're in a war for all of Creation and the only way to stop that war would be to give up your child.
Tom King and Mitch Gerads take a break here. There isn't action or plot movement. They make the slightly risky decision to showcase the fallout of the end of last week's issue. Usually, stories take a slight gap, focusing on maybe a day or a week after something so major has happened. Not these two. Issue #10 drops us right into the immediate aftermath of the immense burden that has been placed upon Scott. Every panel makes him look droopy, his shoulders sagging, his head bent and his body at war with itself, trying to decide what is a good way to get out of this.
However, for once, I actually really appreciated Barda losing it over Scott. It's clear Scott suffers from some kind of depression and Barda has been remarkably patient throughout. But this time she does lose her cool and it isn't pleasant but it's so real and honest that I just have to give it to Tom King for truly thinking of everything.
I can't describe the art anymore. I've run out of adjectives. The best example is the scene with Scott showering. So well done and so magnificently executed, Gerads definitely deserves the Eisner award he received for this series. Remember, fellow readers, this is what it looks like when an artist is doing his best and most personal work.
It's even harder raising a child when you're in a war for all of Creation and the only way to stop that war would be to give up your child.
Tom King and Mitch Gerads take a break here. There isn't action or plot movement. They make the slightly risky decision to showcase the fallout of the end of last week's issue. Usually, stories take a slight gap, focusing on maybe a day or a week after something so major has happened. Not these two. Issue #10 drops us right into the immediate aftermath of the immense burden that has been placed upon Scott. Every panel makes him look droopy, his shoulders sagging, his head bent and his body at war with itself, trying to decide what is a good way to get out of this.
However, for once, I actually really appreciated Barda losing it over Scott. It's clear Scott suffers from some kind of depression and Barda has been remarkably patient throughout. But this time she does lose her cool and it isn't pleasant but it's so real and honest that I just have to give it to Tom King for truly thinking of everything.
I can't describe the art anymore. I've run out of adjectives. The best example is the scene with Scott showering. So well done and so magnificently executed, Gerads definitely deserves the Eisner award he received for this series. Remember, fellow readers, this is what it looks like when an artist is doing his best and most personal work.
August 4, 2018
Really good issue, liked the drama between Scott and Barda a lot.
November 16, 2018
I'm a few months behind, but books like this remind me why I read comics.
This is an amazing character study and the art is spectacular.
This is an amazing character study and the art is spectacular.
November 25, 2018
My first time reading this wen it came out i was a little disappointed because its not very exciting but on my second read through i loved it this story is a much better read all at once.
March 3, 2020
I think I’m ready to admit that this is the best comic I’ll ever read.
December 14, 2025
Sometimes Tom King is really good and other times he is just average. These books are good but not great and they become average when he leans too heavy into foul language.
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