{"id":839,"date":"2006-05-26T01:34:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/839"},"modified":"2006-05-26T01:34:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T01:34:47","slug":"mister-miracle-14-1973-the-quick-and-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/839","title":{"rendered":"Mister Miracle #14 [1973] &#8211; The Quick and the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the house in the background here.  Lots of detail, nice texture, and really a good example of the Kirby\/Royer combo.  Royer&#8217;s display lettering is also interesting.  It&#8217;s really unique, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen anyone else from that era doing such display lettering in the era.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image837\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/05\/MisterMiracle141973.jpg\" alt=\"MisterMiracle141973.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another single issue story in a more conventional mode, not referencing the Fourth World background much at all (except a funny brief scene of Barda and some of the Furies).  Scott and Oberon are wandering around and see a bunch of monsters capturing another creature, taking him back to &#8220;Satan&#8217;s Lair&#8221;.  They follow, coming across an old house run by Madame Evil Eyes.  Various death traps are encountered before Scott realizes that the whole &#8220;Satan Club&#8221; is a cover for a ring of hijackers specializing in high-tech inventions.  Not a bad story, but every time I read something from this stretch of Mister Miracle I can&#8217;t help but see how far it falls from what Kirby clearly wanted to do with the series just a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer inks the 23-page story and cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like the house in the background here. Lots of detail, nice texture, and really a good example of the Kirby\/Royer combo. Royer&#8217;s display lettering is also interesting. It&#8217;s really unique, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen anyone else from that era doing such display lettering in the era. Another single issue story in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}