It’s been suspected and teased about for a bit earlier this year, but Paste Magazine is confirming with an interview that a Mister Miracle series is coming from DC Comics. The new project is coming from writer Tom King, who is currently writing Batman but gained a lot of attention for his work on Vision and Omega Men, with artist Mitch Gerards. The series is being planned as a twelve-issue series with an August launch schedule for it.
“Mister Miracle was created by comic trailblazer Jack Kirby in the early ‘70s after his fallout with Marvel over creator rights. The yellow, red and green superhero fronted a line of comics loosely identified as The Fourth World, a kaleidoscope-colored remix of the Bible with Wagnerian battles and sci-fi bombast. In the mythos, Miracle (born Scott Free) was imprisoned on an industrial hellscape planet called Apokolips before escaping to his family on the paradise of New Genesis. King describes the saga—which ran through comics including the New Gods and The Forever People—like “dipping your head into madness.”
DC Comics has been bringing out the original 1970’s series digitally recently with the first twenty-five issues available. The character also had a short-lived but very fun late 1980’s series that you can find here.