It's 1988 and Marcus Lopez is getting settled into life at Kings Dominion for the Deadly Arts, a secret elite school, to train the next generation of assassins and professional murderers.
Welcome to the DC Universe in 1950s America a land of promise and paranoia, of glittering cities and segregated slums, of dizzying scientific progress and simmering Cold War conflict. A land without the Justice League Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Or so it seems.
From Hugo Award-winning writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads, the team behind The Sheriff of Babylon, comes an ambitious new take on one of Jack Kirby s most beloved New Gods in Mister Miracle! One of the best-reviewed series of the year and already a classic in the making, this Mister Miracle is magical, dark, intimate and unlike anything you ve read before.
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band - if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery.
Offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. Thierry Groensteen covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties, before delving into more recent masterpieces.