| Rating | Collected Issues | Reviews |
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9.2
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Mister Miracle #1 | 48 |
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9.2
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Mister Miracle #2 | 29 |
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8.8
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Mister Miracle #3 | 20 |
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9.1
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Mister Miracle #4 | 23 |
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9.3
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Mister Miracle #5 | 24 |
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9.1
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Mister Miracle #6 | 29 |
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9.3
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Mister Miracle #7 | 25 |
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9.1
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Mister Miracle #8 | 26 |
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9.2
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Mister Miracle #9 | 19 |
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9.1
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Mister Miracle #10 | 22 |
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9.4
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Mister Miracle #11 | 25 |
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9.1
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Mister Miracle #12 | 23 |
As a long time fan of the New Gods I don’t really understand all the good reviews for Mister Miracle. The characters aren’t really in character& while you could excuse this happening to characters like Granny or Orion due to the outcome of the story you can’t excuse it with Scott. He’s acting and also looking like an alcohol addict& why you could argue, that he’s a broken character due to his past, he still never would let him go so much. He isn’t the kind of guy, who gives up like that as he does in this story. So it rather appears to me, that King forced this depression type of story on a character, he doesn’t really understand.
Another problem is the bad dialogue, which is quite typical for King, if I look at his Batman run& HIC. The characters just pretty much sound all the same& are just babbling away.
Storywise nothing really happens, except that actually it’s constantly said, that exciting things were happening like Darkseid getting the full Anti life Equation or Orion becoming the ruler of New Genesis. However nothing of this is shown to the reader or has any real impact on the story. We are just seeing Barda and Scott going from place A to place B& punching one guy& that’s really it. Walter Simonson told an exciting story about what could happen, if someone gains the Anti life Equation. The story here focuses rather on Scott being depressed for no reasons.
I also hate how dumb Darkseid was portrayed here. I’m surprised he could still breath and wasn’t even too stupid for that. The „Darkseid Is“ lines didn’t change that& actually never made sense. They can’t keep up with old lines like „Die for Darkseid& he will live for you“.
The only good thing here is, that the New Gods look like their Kirby version again, but doesn’t help much if their characters aren’t done justice.
Many like the art, but I think Barda just looks too much of a guy here to enjoy any of the art. So I can’t recommend that, I would rather recommend Walter Simonson‘s Orion or John Byrne‘s Fourth World, which both really got Kirby’s New Gods right. It’s sad to see, that new readers don’t get an idea of how great the New Gods are with stories like this.
A modern classic.
What can I say, this is my favorite series from 2018 and probably one of my favorites of all time. Everything in this series is fantastic. The writing, the art, the goddamn art. It's fantastic! Honestly, this series has it all and skipping it would be a shame no doubt. I can't really say a lot about it without going into spoilers so just go and get it, it's a masterpiece.
Seminal work. A complete deconstruction of the Mister Miracle that is great for people who have read every Mister Miracle volume and easily approachable for anyone else. Completely stands on it's own and if you like stories that dive a bit deeper into the human psyche, this story is for you.
Literal masterpiece. Thank god for Tom King.
Mister Miracle (2017) by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC)
I get it, Tom King can be hit or miss (I didn’t care for Omega Men or his Batman run). However, I found Mister Miracle a welcoming, truly original story that spoke to me and re-inspired me about the medium (at the onset of the pandemic). I think the climax of the story (issue #11) is damn near perfect. I was surprised to find out the story was a solicited project and not a pitched labor-of-love by King and Gerards (essentially, DC gave King a short list of three available characters he could use and he chose to write something on Mister Miracle).
This book hits on all cylinders and was rightly honored with nine Eisner nominations through 2018 & 2019 (including five wins for Best Artist x2, Best Writer x2, and Best Coloring). This is probably my most recommended series in the past couple years and skyrocketed into my top three favorite runs of all time.
Check out the extensive interview with King and Gerads by one of my real-world heroes (Brian Hibbs with Comix Experience):
https://youtu.be/Abkrn9nnlMg
i know this site kinda has a hate boner for tom king (and he's not perfect) but holy shit when he's good hes good
Took me a couple issues to get into it, but once I did, it was worth every moment spent on each page. Gerads art is great, and King captures human frailty, emotion, and motivation as a true storyteller should.
call me crazy, but this was oveerrated. I was more interested in seeing Mister Miracle deal with PTSD, but I didnt care if this was a "hallucination" or not. Vision and Omega Men were far better. That was my first review where I gave it a 5 out of 10.
My updated review definitely changed, and I got to say. It's now a 9 out of 10. I think after going through a lot of stuff ofr two years definitely made me appreciate this book a lot more, and it has mature themes, and I love the ending where Scott Free knows that he's not in the real world, but he doesnt care because at least he will be with his family and live a peaceful life. It's a "selfish" decision but its a decision that anyone will take.
Anyway, I personally think Vision, Mister Miracle, and Omega Men are Tom King's holy trinity of books. This book shows why Tom King is a fantastic writer
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