SUBVERSIVE SUPERHEROES! This will actually be the first in a series of QTD episodes where we talk about some of the more...subversive takes on some of DC Comics greatest heroes. What happens when you're a war veteran, were in the CIA, saw some shit, decided to start making PTSD-inspired, superhero comics? This week we're talking about 2018's "MISTER MIRACLE" by Hugo award winning writer - and ex-CIA officer - Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads ... the same team behind “the Sherrif of Babylon.”.Mister Miracle is an ambitious new take on one of Jack Kirby's most beloved New Gods - and his dysfunctional family. Mister Miracle is about SCOTT FREE, the son of the Highfather - a good-guy demi-god who rules over New Genesis To make the peace in an all out war amongst gods of good and evil, Scott is traded at birth with the Highfather's opposite - the stone cold evil that is Darkseid of Apokolips (pretty much DC's version of Thanos before Marvel ripped off DC). Growing up a nameless youth, Scott is tortured. But along the way, he becomes a master escape artist (escaping “Scott Free”), finds love in the fiery pits of Apokolips, becomes the superhero "Mister Miracle" and and moves to earth to join the Justice League with his new wife Big Barda,...and domestic bliss ensues. it's basically a pleasant rom-com of a comic! …OK, not really, this is some PTSD-laden shit, and one of the best new comics we’ve read in awhile…and a great book to kick off our “Subversive Superheroes” series...