10 Comic Book Issues Guaranteed To Make You Cry

Because simply put, Darkseid Is...

Yup, Tom King makes the list again. This time with Mitch Gerads, King started this new series of the New Gods character Scott Free with a striking moment as the super-escape artist lies on the bathroom floor, wrists slit, in an apparent suicide attempt.

As the story develops, we learn that Mister Miracle was apparently trying to escape from death itself, the ultimate escape. However, it becomes fast apparent that there is something more at play.

With Scott Free's perception of reality fast coming into question, and a repeated motif of a simple black panel, getting larger and larger, with the phrase 'Darkseid Is' continually appearing throughout the book, the story takes on a new level.

With the eternal war between New Genesis and Darkseid and Apokolips rearing its head again, and Free's own history as a hostage on Apokolips given freely over to the enemy, the idea that this story may in fact be a story about depression and post-traumatic stress disorder becomes readily apparent.

The story very subtly makes the point of how even someone as carefree and bright and indeed as famous as Mister Miracle can suffer from depression, and how his personal cage is the war that never leaves him.

Mister Miracle #1 takes a powerful look at these traumatic conditions in a way that hits you right in the heart.