In Need of a Miracle

One of the best comics on the stands came to a close last week: Mister Miracle. The Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ miniseries focused on the life of Scott Free, the superhero/escape artist known as Mister Miracle who’s originally from the dark world of Apokalips. While you may have thought that this series would focus on Scott’s struggles with his adoptive father Darkseid and the war for home of the New Gods, it actually had more to say about family, grief, and mental health.

For New Genesis!

Thursday night Warner Bros dropped some pretty unexpected news: we’re getting a New Gods movie. While that’s surprising news on its own, the choice of director to bring Jack Kirby’s creations to the big screen is probably even more surprising: Ava DuVernay, the director behind Selma and A Wrinkle In Time. Picking DuVernay to bring the world of Darkseid, Orion, and Mister Miracle to life is both a surprising and bold choice, but I’m pretty excited to see how she goes about bringing these characters to the big screen, which is going to be interesting, to say the least.