Our December Graphic Novel Club Pick: Mister Miracle

This December, our Graphic Novel Club is spending an evening with a man who can escape almost anything.

On Thursday, December 10th at 7 PM, join us at Revenge Of as we discuss Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads.

Scott Free has made a career out of impossible escapes. But building a life, holding onto love, and figuring out what’s real might be harder than anything he’s attempted onstage.

Strange, darkly funny, and deeply personal, Mister Miracle brings cosmic conflict into uncomfortable proximity with everyday life. It’s a book that invites you to question what you’re seeing, then gives you plenty of reasons to turn back and look again.

Whether this is your first encounter with Scott and Big Barda or a return to a favorite, bring your questions. We suspect we’ll leave with a few more.

Scott Free is an escape artist, a superhero, and a survivor of Apokolips, one of the cruelest places in the DC Universe.

On Earth, he and his wife, Big Barda, have built a life together. But as war between Apokolips and New Genesis pulls them back into its orbit, Scott’s sense of reality becomes increasingly uncertain.

What can he trust? What can we?

Written by Tom King and illustrated by Mitch Gerads, this complete 12-issue story takes characters from Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and makes their impossible circumstances feel startlingly intimate.

You don’t need an encyclopedic knowledge of the New Gods. A willingness to sit with some uncertainty will serve you better.

Content note: This book includes a suicide attempt, themes of depression and trauma, and graphic violence.

The Revenge Of Graphic Novel Club is:

• Open to all readers: No ongoing membership. Come to one or come to all.

• Every two months: We focus on a single standout graphic novel.

• In person at Revenge Of: Space to talk, question, nerd out, and discover new favorites together.

You do not need to be a comics expert. You do not need to arrive with a thesis prepared. And you definitely do not need to agree with everyone else in the room.

We pick a book, read it, and meet for an open conversation about what worked, what didn’t, what surprised us, and what the story has to say.

For Mister Miracle, we’ll be asking how much we trust the story we’re being shown, what makes Scott and Barda’s relationship compelling, and how the artwork shapes our experience of both.

Bring the page you couldn’t stop thinking about. Bring the moment that confused you. Those are often where the best conversations start.

As always, we’re keeping it simple and sustainable:

• $10 standard ticket: Bring your own copy, purchased or borrowed from anywhere.

• $5 discounted ticket: When you’ve purchased Mister Miracle from Revenge Of.

Tickets help us pay staff to host and facilitate the night, keep the space open late, and continue making room for thoughtful conversations about comics.

Any edition collecting the complete Tom King and Mitch Gerads series, issues 1–12, works for this discussion. Paperback, hardcover, or digital, we’ll all have plenty to talk about.

Prefer to borrow your copy? Check your local library’s print and digital catalogs, and give yourself time for any holds.

If you'd rather check it out from the library, here are a few options:

• Print – Los Angeles Public Library
• Digital – Libby, Hoopla

For our final meeting of the year, we wanted a book that would reward spending some time together around a table.

Mister Miracle gives us room for different readings, strong opinions, and the occasional “Wait, what did you think happened there?”

Its mix of domestic life and cosmic conflict raises a question worth lingering over: how do you build a meaningful life when the world around you feels impossible to make sense of?

That’s a substantial question for any book. Putting it in the hands of an escape artist makes it especially interesting.

We’re also looking forward to talking about the collaboration between King and Gerads. In comics, the way a story is shown can change everything about how we understand it. This is a chance to slow down, compare pages, and hear what other readers noticed.

You don’t have to solve the book before you come. We’re here to talk it through together.

1. Get your copy of Mister Miracle. Choose an edition collecting the complete series by Tom King and Mitch Gerads.

2. Grab your ticket. It’s $5 with a Revenge Of book purchase or $10 if you’re bringing your own copy.

3. Mark your calendar. Thursday, December 10, 2026, at 7 PM at Revenge Of.

4. Show up ready to talk. No homework beyond reading the book, no pop quizzes, just a room full of people who love comics.

Make your escape for an evening. We’ll save you a seat.

We can't wait to see you!