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Mister Miracle: Tom King on WBA, DC Studios Adapting Comics Series

Tom King shared some thoughts on the news that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios are adapting his and Mitch Gerads' Mister Miracle.

If you're an animation fan, then we're pretty sure you liked a lot of what was coming out from this year's Annecy International Animation Festival. One of the biggest announcements (and a pleasant surprise) was the news that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios were developing an adult animated series adaptation of writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads' Eisner Award-winning 12-issue comic book series, Mister Miracle. Not long after the news went wide, King took to social media to share that he would be serving as showrunner, that Gerads was also on board with the production, and how it felt to be bringing the comics series to animated life.

"Get out your veggie trays…," King began the caption to his Instagram post, which also included a look at the key art for the series and a look at the original comic book series run. "Just announced and coming soon. MISTER MIRACLE: a new adult animated series from DC Studios and [Warner Bros. Animation]. Based on the Eisner winning best-selling comic by myself and semi-professional nerd/genius, [Mitch Gerads]. I'll be show running the series, working with a dream team of animators and storytellers including Mitch himself who drew that gorgeous teaser art up there. Hard to express how excited I am to be working on this, what a joy it is. I love these characters and I love this world that the King, Jack Kirby built from a pencil tip. Thank you all for supporting the book over all these years. Its meant so much. More details coming." Here's a look at King's thoughts from shortly after the news broke, followed by a look back at the animated series' official overview (based on the DC Comics characters created by Jack Kirby):

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.

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