Mister Miracle #9 Review

Writer: Tom King / Artist: Mitch Gerads / DC Comics “I bring my offering, I will not preach Awaken my demons, you can hear that man screaming”- Pusha T

You cannot say that this mini-series isn’t going on the list of top 5 comic book runs canceled (dead) or ongoing (alive). King and Gerads continue to redefine, revamp, and refresh Jack Kirby’s 4th World vision; and my god. This is by far the best iteration of the war between New Genesis and Apokolips that we’ve ever come across. I said it. I will die on that hill. We get a bottle episode as Scott Free, Big Barda, and Light Ray negotiate with Kalibak and his court over the terms of peace. You gotta give King credit, man. He knows how to make something so simple as a negotiation have such a large overtone. We’ve seen the battlefield of Apokolips, but the sight of seeing servants chained and acting as the legs of the table? Or big-ass Kalibak taking out his reading glasses to go over the agreement terms of peace? It’s this attention to detail provided by Gerads that make the panels stand out and stay with the reader. We talking bout practice peace?

If you know Kirby’s characters then you know Kalibak is the runt of Darkseid’s litter. I’m wondering if dude is a middle child. No matter what he does, Darkseid could not give a fuck about this kid. King is able to give him a bit of the Kite-Man treatment this issue. We don’t see Kalibak flat-out as brutal as he usually is… at first. Kalibak doing negotiations with Scott is the …