#565 “Mister Miracle” and comics journalism hype




Deconstructing Comics show

Summary: <br> DC recently launched a new Mister Miracle series, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Well and good, thought Emmet, but then he saw <a href="http://www.cbr.com/mister-miracle-tom-king-mitch-gerads/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a certain CBR headline</a> that set him off. “King and Gerads have redefined comics”? Hyperbolic much?<br> So Emmet recruited Kumar to review both Mister Miracle #1 and the hype surrounding it. Is the use of suicide in the story meaningful? Hackneyed? How accessible is this comic to readers who don’t know the character? And, why does everything in comics have to be super-hyped nowadays?<br> <a href="https://giving.ringling.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Donate to the Ed Siemienkowicz Memorial Scholarship</a> (Choose it from the pulldown menu)<br>