Mister Miracle #3 Review

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Mitch Gerads / DC Comics “And so its time to make a move, exit Rubber-band covering the bruise, left wrist Faith in a man I can’t prove, exists I really got nothing to lose but a death wish”- Joe Budden

I felt like Diddy reading this issue of Mitch Gerads and Tom King’s Mister Miracle. Every panel had me saying, “uh-huh, yeah” aloud at how raw each scene got. There’s such a clear scale of escalation in the events this time around with Orion leading New Genesis in the war against Darkseid. The opening scene with Orion having Granny Goodness corpse dug up just to highlander / Ned Stark her head off? This is what the fuck this age old war between these two worlds been missing, point blank casualties. Main characters catching the hightop fade [get it?]. The action scenes in the series so far have been incredible, especially in showcasing how Mister Miracle, Scott Free, isn’t able to just use his cunning like a Jack Sparrow or Constantine type over fighting. We saw Scott Free will fuck you up hand to hand. However, the dialogue provides the greatest movement of the story, even more so than the action.There’s a conversation between Forager and Scott Free, who got some time off from the war in order to work, about Orion’s lack of regard for life of the “lower class” bug people acting as soldier for the New Gods. Soldier is a loose term, they’re being used as fodder for a war that isn’t even theirs. You can tell King and Gerads did their homework on the Ne…