Earlier this year, DC Studios announced a slew of new animated projects such as My Adventures with Jessica Cruz and Starfire. The news was incredibly well received by fans of DC animation who had been wondering what the future held for DC’s animated fare especially now that original animated movies have run its course. Today Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios announced a Mister Miracle adult animated series has been greenlit based on the critically acclaimed and Eisner Award–winning 12-issue comic book limited from writer Tom King and artist Mitch Gerads. Moreover, Tom King will serve as executive producer and showrunner.
Though this marks King’s first animation project, he’s no stranger to DC Studios. In fact, he’s among the key architects recruited by DC Studios co-head James Gunn and is currently involved in the upcoming Lanterns live-action series.
UPDATE: Artist Mitch Gerads confirmed his involvement in the animated series via an Instagram post.
Official description:
No prison can hold him. No trap can contain him. He is Scott Free, the worldwide celebrity sensation known as Mister Miracle, and he is the greatest escape artist who ever lived. But can he pull off the ultimate trick — and escape death itself?
Something has gone horribly wrong with the perfect life that Scott and his warrior wife Big Barda have built for themselves on Earth. With war raging between their home worlds of Apocalypse and New Genesis, Scott’s cruel adoptive father Darkseid seems to have finally captured the Anti-Life Equation — the ultimate weapon that will give Darkseid total dominance over the universe.
As the mountains of bodies on both sides grow ever higher, only Mister Miracle can stop the slaughter and restore peace. But the terrible power of the Anti-Life Equation may already be at work in his own mind, warping his reality, exposing his long-buried pain, and shattering the fragile happiness he’s found with the woman he loves.
And so begins the odyssey of Scott Free, Mister Miracle: a harrowing, hilarious, heart wrenching journey across the pitfalls of the ordinary and extraordinary as the son of God raised by the devil tries to save his family, his world, and maybe even himself.
