10 Best DC Comics #1 Of The Modern Age

10. Mister Miracle #1

There are excellent reasons people refer to Jack Kirby as The King. His work is peerless, and the concepts he created have proven to be as fertile now as they were back when he first put pen to paper. It's not often someone takes one of these characters and produces work that is more than an imitation of Kirby. Tom King and Mitch Gerads did just that with Scott Free, AKA Mister Miracle. A modern DC Comic that stands apart from its contemporaries. It is a dark and very human tale about beings beyond the ken of mortal men.

The first issue starts with Mister Miracle laying on the bathroom floor, having cut his wrists. What follows is something more akin to Twin Peaks than your standard superhero comic. Anyone knowing the New God characters can probably see where the story will head, but it's still a fascinating and frightening trip.

Gerads' artwork gives the whole book an otherworldly yet mundane quality that only adds to the surrealism of the entire experience.