![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pair is discussing their upcoming series, Mister Miracle, about a cosmic Jesus Christ analogue who’s also an escape artist, and how in this moment, it’s very, very hard not to feel trapped in a never-ending loop of the bizarre, anxious and absurd. His illustrating partner on Sheriff, Mitch Gerads, chimes in: “The Cubs won the World Series.” Or it can be as crazy as people are breaking laws in our country that shouldn’t ever be broken,” King explains on the phone. And that can be as simple as the Super Bowl didn’t make sense. I don’t mean this in a political way, but the world as it is today-what’s happening every single day-doesn’t seem to make any sense. ![]() “I’d flirted with the edge of death and came back from it, and I woke up and the whole world seemed different. Though King didn’t pass into the great beyond, he returned to a reality that didn’t quite feel the same. Fortunately, the diagnosis revealed a severe panic attack. The former CIA officer and comic writer behind such modern classics as The Sheriff of Babylon, The Vision and The Omega Men anticipated a heart attack that would send him to an early grave. Shortly before the release of his debut issue on Batman last summer, Tom King awoke in the emergency room. ![]()
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