Ambitions and Dreams (Intro)

Since August of 2017, I've been writing reviews for the magazine PanelXPanel on the comic book series Mister Miracle written by Tom King and drawn by Mitch Gerads. It's a story that has themes and ideas I have been grappling with for a long time now. It's perhaps one of the greatest comics of all time. And for the next 13 weeks, I will be uploading the reviews to the blog. This series of reviews will highlight my growth as a critic and include things not featured in the original PanelXPanel issues (of note, the one on issue 8 did some structural things that were understandably cut from the full release) as well as a few minor grammatical changes. There are things here that I got right and things that I got wrong. But then, I never put stock into being able to predict where a story is going. I'm more interested in how I feel as I read it.

Given the nature of these reviews (and a bit of structural artistry) it might be best any people in the audience with triggers related to abuse, suicide, and other such traumas to block the tag "One Must Imagine Scott Free Happy." This series of reviews delves into those subjects, among others of a similar nature throughout the series. If you feel you can handle such subject matter, I hope you enjoy the series of reviews.

"All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent structure which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant, which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive."

-Jack Kirby, The Great Earth Cataclysm Syndrome!

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