Mister Miracle #12 [final issue]

[laughing_tree]

Mister Miracle is a 12 issue, in continuity series. It's one complete story that will in turn affect the entire DCU. -- Tom King

Comments

[zachbeacon]

What?

[cainofdreaming]

Darkseid is.

We don't have to explain it.

[blueprintstyles]

he's either in some form of the afterlife or the anti-life equation and is choosing to stay there because it's better than his old life, and considering are the reboots, changes to the timeline and every other reality changing plot device, just as real.

[zachbeacon]

So Joker has a multiple choice origin and Mister Miracle has a multiple choice death?

[mesmiranda]

Which does present kind of an interesting concept: if our superheroes become aware of the multiverse, and can choose, who's to say if Batman wouldn't choose to be in a place where his parents never died? Or hopped across universes to make sure his parents never died in the first place? Sort of Bioshock Infinite, in a way.

[laughing_tree]

Scott's visions claim various theories about where he is: He's hallucinating, he's in hell, he's in heaven, he is trapped in the anti-life equation. Ultimately, regardless of what this reality is, he decides to stay in it rather than return to the New 52/Rebirth Earth.

[lordultimus]

[alicemacher]

Thank you. With all the reviewers over the past year raving about how innovative and moving and generally awesometastic this series is, I wondered whether I was the only one who just didn't see what the big deal was. What I did see was constant Watchmen-aping nine-panel layouts, the too-often repeated "Darkseid is," and ambiguity wrapped in an enigma wrapped in Scott's beard.

[informationgeek]

I feel the same way towards Watchmen and Y: The Last Man.


Honestly, I think I got more out of this than either of those two. Not sure if that's good or bad.

[deathcrist2000]

“This is an IMAGINARY STORY (Which may never happen, but then again may) of an imperfect man who fled from the sky and did mostly good. It tells of his twilight, when the great battles were over and the great miracles long since performed; of how his enemies conspired against him and of that final war on the burnt out husk that is Apokolips; of the family he loved and the choice he made because of them; how he broke his most sacred vow, and how finally all the things he had were taken from him save for one. It ends with a kiss. It begins in a loud, messy west coast town, one summer afternoon in the loud, messy west coast present. Away in the big city, people still sometimes glance up hopefully in the theater, glimpsing a distant trap on the stage… but no: it’s only a set, only a play. Mister Free died ten years ago. This is an IMAGINARY STORY…

Aren’t they all?”

[lizard_of_aus]

I am preserving this quote in my Notes for posterity.

[icon_uk]

It's a quote from Alan Moore, in his classic Superman story "Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow?" (Which appeared just as Byrne's "Man of Steel" was launched.

[deh_tommy]

Still works really well with the current series (especially since "Aren't they all?" is the conclusion Mr. Miracle comes to in this issue, and he really did die around ten years ago).

[lizard_of_aus]

It is indeed, but it just tickles me to see it again, applied perfectly to the story.

[deh_tommy]

via GIPHY

[matrix_dragon]

... well, that happened. Maybe?

[kirayoshi]

Okay, looking at the cover: who else was expecting the last page to be a shot of Darkseid sitting at a drawing desk, looking at the reader and asking, "Ain't I a stinker?"

[deh_tommy]

I feel like this works better as one big package rather than a series spread apart by a month per issue.

[deathcrist2000]

Having read the series both ways, yeah, that's true.

[deh_tommy]

Now that I actually get what the book was aiming to do (I think), I feel like I can appreciate this much more than I used to.

[tripodeca113]

I just finished reading this. I don't know if this is good, but I don't think it's for me.
Also the constant layout hurt my eyes after a while.