Mister Miracle (2017)

Twelve issues, complete, and a good test of how far superhero comics have stretched. Tom King and Mitch Gerads take Jack Kirby's escape artist Scott Free and give equal weight to a war on Apokolips, his marriage to Big Barda and the arrival of a baby. Gerads builds most pages on a nine-panel grid, which gives the book a steady, uneasy rhythm. It won the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series in 2019. Some readers find the ending deliberately open; that is part of the design, not a missing chapter.