I'm going to say something very controversial. I don't like Jack Kirby. I don't think he's the shit like everyone else does. I'm not a huge fan of his writing. I'm not a huge fan of his art. I appreciate that he's a creative behemoth and he's responsible for some of the most well loved and most enduring properties in comics, but I'm just not a fan.
However, Mister Miracle may be my absolute favorite Kirby creation. Everything about his sings to me. His costume is simple, yet complex. It's bright and shiny and happy. His back story is tragic but his current story is positive. He's a fun character and he has great adventures.
Sure, most of the stories in here are kind of awful, but they're fun awful. And we get all 18 fun but awful action packed issues of Kirby's run. We get a lot of Kirby's Fourth World characters showing up for different stories, which is neat. He was writing, drawing and editing the whole Fourth World set of books for a number of years. I don't know how he did it. Granted, they weren't monthly books. Bi-monthly at best, but that's a lot of pages to be putting out on a regular basis.
Anyway, if I was going to pick on Kirby book to love on for his 100th anniversary celebration, it would be this book.
Mister Miracle By Jack Kirby
Writer: Jack Kirby
Artist: Jack Kirby, Mike Royer
DC Comics
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