Is Tom King Writing Mister Miracle & Big Barda This Summer?

It appears Omega Men and The Vision writer Tom King will next set his sights on one of Jack Kirby’s most beloved properties: Mister Miracle and Big Barda of New Genesis.

In June of 2015, shortly before the Darkseid War event kicked off, DC chief creative officer Geoff Johns teased a Mister Miracle story was coming.

Not long after that, escape artist Scott Free (Mister Miracle) and his wife Big Barda were among the New Gods characters who had their designs tweaked for that event.

The Rebirth event hasn’t made a lot of room for New Gods and other non-Earth-based characters just yet outside of the Green Lantern comics, but it looks like that could all change soon.

In-story, Scott Free is the biological son of Highfather, who was traded to Apokolips in exchange for Darkseid’s son Orion in a desperate attempt to prevent war between the two worlds. Free went on to become one of the greatest escape artists in the universe — a useful skill on Apokolips — and fell in love with Big Barda.

Barda, for her part, is a former member of Granny Goodness’s Female Furies, who left the group behind to pursue a life with Scott. The pair eventually moved to Earth and were members of the Justice League, with Barda briefly working with the Birds of Prey.

King, who currently writes Batman and is about to kick off a storyline that teams the Dark Knight and The Flash to solve the mystery of The Comedian’s bloody badge from Watchmen, made a name for himself in 2015 and 2016 with critically-acclaimed comics with great high concepts and off-kilter characters like Sheriff of Babylon, Omega Men, and The Vision.

The tweet features art that appears to be from his Sheriff of Babylon collaborator Mitch Gerads, who told the Word Balloon podcast late last year that he and King were working on a DC superhero project. The pair have also already teased a follow up to Sheriff of Babylon at Vertigo.