Mister Miracle #2 Review

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Mitch Gerads / DC Comics

“Should I run away and change my name? Or should I stay and fight Through the night And never close my eyes? I’ll never close my eyes”- Our Last Night

*clapping hands* Here’s what the fuck I showed up for. Here’s what I knew Mister Miracle would deliver. My staff mates been poking fun at my love for obscure characters and seeing them get revitalized from the floor up. Seeing characters get that remodeling, get that home improvement for that spotlight shine to come through the newly renovated windows and illuminate the fully refurbished living room for the fandom to hang out in. Yes, I ran with that house flipping analogy for way too long but I cant be contained. I can’t be calmed, we got Scott Free aka Mr. Miracle aka Mr. Escape The Room in the trenches. King sets the reader in the middle of the war against Apokolips’ hordes with Scott Free catching body after body after body. Scott Free doesn’t just escape, our guy can break into the thick of the muck and scraaaaaap with the most gutta of them. Orion is giving Scott locations to attack and he is taking them down like a machine, like it’s nothing, like it’s a typical taco fucking Tuesday. The contrast of Scott killing his way through mad fields for us to then see him with Barda trying to work a shower is a great way of grounding these characters. We get to see the after effect of war from these two who were raised on Apokolips as Barda reminisces how simpler life was on …