Mister Miracle #4 Review

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Mitch Gerads / DC Comics “Old head said reality is fake and fake’s the new real Nothing prescribed to me, but taking a few pills” -Joe Budden The best part of the month is when that new Mister Miracle arrives. I pick it up wondering, how will it top the last story? Will this be the first time we get an average issue? At this point, I keep expecting a pic of DJ Khaled at the end of each issue saying “another one.” Gerads and King continue to build the lore of the New Gods/Mister Miracle with an excellence of execution (shout out to Bret “The Hitman” Hart). You know an issue is good when you don’t need action to advance the story. Orion comes for Scott’s ass in the form of a trial — a trial where Orion is judge, jury, and muh fucking executioner. Scott is being tried as an agent of Darkseid (due to his questioning of Orion last issue). This trail becomes more of an interrogation to weed out the issues with Scott. Lord, do we get to a lot of family issues with these questions here. Orion is a smooth-talking judge man, his questions all make sense and are hard to argue.

I love how cool Scott is amidst all this and how “the fuck are we even talking about” Barda is. Barda’s displeasure with this trial was left all over Lightray’s face. Fuck “don’t kill the messenger,” you come for Scott you get got. Even when she isn’t directly in the forefront of attention, Barda and Scott’s relationship shines through. The climax of this issue is the back and forth be…