In Tom King and Mitch Gerads’s critically acclaimed Mister Miracle, Scott Free toils in search of something seriously lacking in our own lives today: the power to escape. But escape from what? Viewed through the lens of an iPhone screen, the comparison might seem counterintuitive. After all, it seems like today we have nothing but…
Transmyscira: FEMALE FURIES and the Binding of Aurelie
This is the bad place. – Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place Season 1, Episode 9 Riding high off the renewed interest in the Fourth World generated by Mister Miracle’s success — and armed with the industry’s foremost talent in deconstructing the gendering of our bodies and experiences of them in Cecil Castellucci — the six…
Transmycira: MISTER MIRACLE and a Crisis on Infinite Masculinities
Human beings in a mob What’s a mob to a king? What’s a king to a god? What’s a god to a non-believer? Who don’t believe in anything? We make it out alive All right, all right No church in the wild – No Church in the Wild by Kanye West and Jay Z A…
On Fighting the Patriarchy: DC Comics and FEMALE FURIES
I recently joined a comic book club in my city. During our recent meet we discussed Tom King’s Mister Miracle, so it was inevitable that the new Cecil Castellucci and Adriana Melo’s Female Furies series came up in conversation. One of the moderators mentioned reading about how the new series was absolutely terrible; that beauty…
MISTER MIRACLE: How One Man Got Off Scott Free (and You Can, Too)
It’s been a really bad few years in America. Crushing years in terms of anxiety and fear. We all know the external force that is burgeoning anxiety. I feel stuck between fear for myself, guilt over those who have more to fear than I, and a relentless desire to want to fix it all. Fight.…
MISTER MIRACLE: The Face At The End of This Boom Tube
Trying to talk about Tom King and Mitch Gerad’s work on Mister Miracle feels like being asked to explain the meaning of life. Or, Anti-Life, even. While, sure, there are some examples within the 300 pages of the Mister Miracle trade paperback that supports specific views of what Anti-Life and Life Equations could be, ultimately…
2018: The 10 Comic Books that Turned Our Heads
2018. What a year you were. I’ve called this year a dumpster fire more times than I can count. Comics was, by no means, exempt from that assessment. But for the bad, there is good. Today, we celebrate phenomenal comic book achievements in 2018, from every spectrum of the publishing gamut. Without further ado, 10…
Pushing Through the Pain of HEROES IN CRISIS
Comics like the currently on-going Heroes in Crisis story by Tom King are probably the hardest to critique. I feel like something is wrong with it, yet the subjects around which the story revolves, therapy and trauma, are things about which I know little outside of anecdotal evidence and experience. Or, to re-state the premise…
THE HONOR ROLL: November 14, 2018
Well well well here we are again. A week of comics? Yep. A week of great comics? Yep yep! We have great spoiler-filled picks for you to check out, so let’s get to it! SUPERMAN #5 – Martin Gray In Superman #5 the Man of Steel wonders if he should use his powers to decisively…
Review: MISTER MIRACLE #12
MISTER MIRACLE #12 Written by Tom King Art by Mitch Gerads and Clayton Cowles Edited by Jamie S. Rich and Brittany Holzherr Published by DC Comics Release Date: November 14, 2018 Darkseid is… defeated. And the hero of our tale gets to go on with his life, raise a family, and not worry about the…