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Mister Miracle by Jack Kirby

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


The Entire run of Jack Kirby's 18-issue Mister Miracle comic, which was part of his Fourth World comics that included the New Gods and the Forever People. This series is actually fairly self-contained, focusing on Scott Free's escape from Apokolips and his Superhero/Showbiz career on Earth.

This book introduced a series of great characters: Mister Miracle, Big Barda, Oberon, Granny Goodness, and the Famel Furies all make their appearance in this book. They are so fun to read and there's some great creativity that goes into them.

Kirby's art is great. It might be just a little bit less superb than his work for Marvel in the 1960, but Jack Kirby was still amazing in the early 1970s.

The stories all stand on their own, separate from whatever was going on in Kirby's other books. There are repetitive themes in the books of "Granny sends villain from Apokolips to capture Mister Miracle and Mister Miracle and Barda dispatch said villain in epic fashion." Though there are several issues where Mister Miracle goes back to Apokolips so that he can take the steps necessary to legally escape Apokolips so that he's no longer pursued but that doesn't stop him from being pursued. Other issues reflect the sort of fun pulp fiction style of storytelling that has a nostalgic feel to it, and it's pretty fun. Issue 18 brings an epic grand finale that has some awesome moments, but does feel a tad rushed.

Still, this is just a really fun book. A nice read but one of comics' greats.



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