DC and Warner Bros. have announced Mister Miracle, the second animated series to be produced under the DC Studios banner. As revealed at the Annecy Animation Festival, Mister Miracle will be overseen by showrunner and producer Tom King.
A prolific DC Comics writer, King previously collaborated with artist Mitch Gerads on 2017's Mister Miracle series, which released to major critical acclaim and won the 2019 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series. That comic appears to be the basis for this animated series, judging from DC's official logline:
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick — and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his warrior wife Big Barda have built for themselves on Earth. With war raging between their home worlds of Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s cruel adoptive father Darkseid seems to have finally captured the Anti-Life Equation — the ultimate weapon that will give Darkseid total dominance over the universe.
As the mountains of bodies on both sides grow ever higher, only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace. But the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation may already be at work in his own mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s found with the woman he loves.
And so begins the odyssey of Scott Free, Mister Miracle: a harrowing, hilarious, heart wrenching journey across the pitfalls of the ordinary and extraordinary as the son of God raised by the devil tries to save his family, his world, and maybe even himself.
The teaser art above also suggests the show's animation style will borrow heavily from Gerads' work on the comic.
No voice cast or other crew members have been announced yet, and it's unknown when and where Mister Miracle will debut. It's also unclear whether Mister Miracle will be set in the DCU shared universe, like 2024's Creature Commandos, or exist as a standalone project. If the former, the series may end up being the first we see of Darkseid and the other Fourth World characters in this cinematic universe.
Mister Miracle is just the latest DC Studios project to draw on King's DC work. 2026's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is directly based on King and Bilquis Evely's 2021 comic of the same name. Meanwhile, King is writing for the live-action Lanterns series, which is currently in production.
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