DCEU: 10 Comics It Must Adapt To Beat Marvel

4. Mister Miracle (2017)

Of all the upcoming DC projects, it is Ava DuVernay's New Gods that should get fans most excited. After all, DuVernay is a superb director, and she now gets to work her magic on some of the most inspirational and creative stories that DC has ever published: Jack Kirby's Fourth World Saga.

Kirby is often considered an architect of Marvel Comics - and that is true - but his time at DC fostered a legacy comparable in scope to what he achieved over at the House of Ideas back in the sixties. At the core to this series was the conflict between the planets of New Genesis and Apokolips, the former ruled by the ostensibly benevolent High Father, and the latter by the indisputably tyrannical Darkseid.

Elements of the Fourth World were already shown off in Justice League, but audiences haven't seen anything yet. There's a really compelling conflict to examine between these two immortal civilisations, and at its core in recent years has been two perspectives - Scott Free's and Big Barda's.

In order to achieve a truce between Apokolips and New Genesis, the two leaders decide to swap their children (because obviously). Darkseid's boy becomes Orion, while High Father's son, Mister Miracle, heads to Apokolips, where he is then tortured for the rest of his days at Granny Goodness' orphanage.

Eventually, he falls in love with Big Barda and escapes to earth, which is where Tom King and Mitch Gerads' series comes in. It's haunting, honest, and though not nearly epic enough to inspire an entire film, embodies the relationship between Scott and Barda perfectly.