Full disclosure: Mister Miracle and Big Barda are one of my favorite fictional couples ever.
Scott Free, the little Spirit of Freedom, the universe's greatest escape artist, and his seven-feet-tall super-strong warrior beloved Big Barda, both escaped Darkseid's clutches to live on Earth on their own.
If that sounds woke to you, here's the twist.
Big Barda would much rather just be a stay-at-home housewife. She unironically LOVES cooking and doing household chores to make sure her husband comes home to a peaceful, orderly abode. She finds it relaxing.
She wants to be feminine, but things just keep drawing her back into battle.
Sadly, I'm sure today's writers will miss the point entirely. Especially since it's headed by that hack Tom King.
...Also, I don't know how I put that extra comma in the title. Sorry. Can't change it now.
Big Barda would much rather just be a stay-at-home housewife. She unironically LOVES cooking and doing household chores to make sure her husband comes home to a peaceful, orderly abode. She finds it relaxing.
She wants to be feminine, but things just keep drawing her back into battle.
Fundamentally (as you undoubtedly know), what makes the two characters work is why Barda's in love with Scott. It isn't physical strength, or royal heritage, or any of that - it's the fact that nobody but Scott Free could even conceive of escape from Darkseid. All the horrors of a hellish world surrounding both of them from birth, and he could still dream that there was something better out there. He's a leader in the purest sense.
Compare Scott to the rest of the Lowlies on the planet; even after Orion killed Darkseid and took the throne and tried to free them, he couldn't. Nobody could even think of freedom. When Orion tried to set up a democratic vote, everybody assumed it was a hidden test and voted for him anyway; when he walks the streets, everybody cringes and expects to be smited if they so much as look at him, no matter how much he tells them to stand. He realizes it will take literal generations before his subjects can actually have freedom.
Centuries of slavery can't be undone overnight even with help, and Scott had no help at all. When written well, Scott Free is a shining beacon of hope in otherwise inescapable despair.
Sadly, I'm sure today's writers will miss the point entirely.
His one JLU episode did a perfect job summing him up but sadly I just cringe to think of how his character would be malformed into something that'd make Anarky go 'whoa, chill man" with the writing they put out these days.
There's so many Gundam stories to adapt it's safe to say any live action adaptations done outside Japan will probably be awful. Same with Macross. Pacific Rim doing OK as a giant robot vs Kaiju film that totally wasn't Evangelion may have only managed by focusing more on the actual fighting than too much people drama, but it was still there and the sequel was a mess.
Mister Miracle, which Warner said will tell the “odyssey” of main character Scott Free aka Mister Miracle, is based on the critically acclaimed and Eisner Award-winning 12-issue comic book series.
Aw, fuck no. Not only has that series done long lasting damage to the comic industry by causing multiple other releases to copy the stupid 9 panel layout, like Heroes in Crisis which was shit for other reasons in addition tot he layout, but also the ending sucked.
What was sad about that series is that a random review of the first two issues turned out to portray the character way better than the series he was reviewing. This was early on, and you could see the (fairly reasonable) hope that the whole nine-panel format was the trap itself, that at the end we'd see Scott break free of it and into the flow of the traditional comic spreads in a brilliant visual backdrop to a triumphant conclusion.
Obviously, that's not at all what we got.
That’s an incredibly well-conceived bit of propaganda that Kirby used to spell out, as eloquently as possible, exactly what Darkseid is all about. DARKSEID IS… What? Everything. All that matters. It’s the guiding principle of his empire, and the ultimate goal of the Anti-Life Equation. If Darkseid achieves it, free will ceases to exist. All that is… All that matters… will be Darkseid. We see the slogan on signs all over Apokolips in the original series, especially in Armagetto, the slum in which Scott Free grew up. And it repeats here, in his lowest moments.
Darkseid is.
These panels are peppered throughout the first two issues, with increasing frequency as you progress.
Darkseid is.
They play as a sort of Greek chorus to the action…
Darkseid is.
…interrupting the flow of events but also commenting on it…
Darkseid is.
…until they become stifling.
Darkseid is.
Claustrophobic.
Darkseid is.
Suffocating.
Darkseid is.
Finally, they take over the whole page, and seem…
Darkseid is.
Inescapable.
Darkseid is.
But we already know what Mister Miracle thinks about inescapable traps, don’t we?
This may be memory-holed soon. I wonder if I should buy the series on blu-ray or just go find my eye patch. Either way it probably needs to be archived.
Full disclosure: Mister Miracle and Big Barda are one of my favorite fictional couples ever.
Scott Free, the little Spirit of Freedom, the universe's greatest escape artist, and his seven-feet-tall super-strong warrior beloved Big Barda, both escaped Darkseid's clutches to live on Earth on their own.
If that sounds woke to you, here's the twist.
Big Barda would much rather just be a stay-at-home housewife. She unironically LOVES cooking and doing household chores to make sure her husband comes home to a peaceful, orderly abode. She finds it relaxing.
She wants to be feminine, but things just keep drawing her back into battle.
Sadly, I'm sure today's writers will miss the point entirely. Especially since it's headed by that hack Tom King.
...Also, I don't know how I put that extra comma in the title. Sorry. Can't change it now.
Fundamentally (as you undoubtedly know), what makes the two characters work is why Barda's in love with Scott. It isn't physical strength, or royal heritage, or any of that - it's the fact that nobody but Scott Free could even conceive of escape from Darkseid. All the horrors of a hellish world surrounding both of them from birth, and he could still dream that there was something better out there. He's a leader in the purest sense.
Compare Scott to the rest of the Lowlies on the planet; even after Orion killed Darkseid and took the throne and tried to free them, he couldn't. Nobody could even think of freedom. When Orion tried to set up a democratic vote, everybody assumed it was a hidden test and voted for him anyway; when he walks the streets, everybody cringes and expects to be smited if they so much as look at him, no matter how much he tells them to stand. He realizes it will take literal generations before his subjects can actually have freedom.
Centuries of slavery can't be undone overnight even with help, and Scott had no help at all. When written well, Scott Free is a shining beacon of hope in otherwise inescapable despair.
I've no doubt you're right.
You nailed it. That's why I love these two.
His one JLU episode did a perfect job summing him up but sadly I just cringe to think of how his character would be malformed into something that'd make Anarky go 'whoa, chill man" with the writing they put out these days.
I didn't think so.
The comics show how he escaped.
Here?
"Trade secret."
The comic boils down to male mental health, of course the point will be missed entirely.
One reason I hope we never get that rumored live-action Evangelion movie that's been rumored for over 20 years.
They've started making a Gundam one, and I expect that to suck too.
There's so many Gundam stories to adapt it's safe to say any live action adaptations done outside Japan will probably be awful. Same with Macross. Pacific Rim doing OK as a giant robot vs Kaiju film that totally wasn't Evangelion may have only managed by focusing more on the actual fighting than too much people drama, but it was still there and the sequel was a mess.
Aw, fuck no. Not only has that series done long lasting damage to the comic industry by causing multiple other releases to copy the stupid 9 panel layout, like Heroes in Crisis which was shit for other reasons in addition tot he layout, but also the ending sucked.
What was sad about that series is that a random review of the first two issues turned out to portray the character way better than the series he was reviewing. This was early on, and you could see the (fairly reasonable) hope that the whole nine-panel format was the trap itself, that at the end we'd see Scott break free of it and into the flow of the traditional comic spreads in a brilliant visual backdrop to a triumphant conclusion.
Obviously, that's not at all what we got.
Bet that review felt bittersweet given the specific twist at the end.
Lordy. It's a sickness with them.
This may be memory-holed soon. I wonder if I should buy the series on blu-ray or just go find my eye patch. Either way it probably needs to be archived.
I thought that episode did him dirty.
The comics at least showed HOW he escaped.
Here? Escaped offscreen. How? "Trade secret."
Why would they put him on train tracks and then drop a train on him?
I swear, even when writers aren't woke, they're still pretty dumb.
He's an alien from another world and doesn't know how trains work? 🤔
Misdirection. Everyone sees the tracks, everyone expects a normal train. No one isn't going to look up at that.
Gotta get that nasolabial fold subsidy from usaid.
Last attractive "strong woman" was Gina Carano and we saw what they did to her