DC/WB approved an adult cartoon based on Tom King's Mister Miracle series

It's sad but hardly shocking to discover that WB/DC are going to produce an adult animated cartoon based on overrated Tom King's Mister Miracle story, news which Comic Book Movie gushes over so predictably:

Last June, DC Studios announced that it was moving forward with an adult animated TV series adapting Tom King and Mitch Gerads' Mister Miracle.

The subversive comic book series picks up with a suicidal Scott Free infected by Darkseid's Anti-Life Equation, taking both the character and reader to some unexpected places on what proves to be a mind-bending, Jack Kirby-inspired adventure. It has the potential to make a great show, especially if it sticks closely to the source material.

Fortunately, King will serve as showrunner on Mister Miracle, while Gerads is involved with helping create the visual style of the series alongside the animation team.

Talking to Comic Geek Speak, King confirmed that the casting process is underway and teased an imminent announcement. He also hinted that we'll learn how the character fits into the wider DCU, something that makes sense when James Gunn has repeatedly said that actors who star in animated projects will also reprise their roles in live-action movies and series.

I'm far from shocked they'd lecture everybody that the "source material" is the most wonderful storytelling ever, without even explaining why the premise works or is even remotely consistent with what Kirby first developed 55 years ago. And to say this is "Kirby-inspired" is equally insulting to the intellect, because in all the stories he wrote that I read, he never came up with the kind of depressed, unheroic and traumatized personalities and premises King's made a whole career out of. And who watches this stuff on TV today?

What they're working on decidedly makes clear something's unhealthy about how Gunn's DC movieverse is being developed. Speaking of which, the Algemeiner reported that Simu Liu, who starred in Marvel's live action Shang Chi movie, wants an anti-Israeli actress to play Wonder Woman:

Canadian actor Simu Liu said he thinks Mexican actress Melissa Barrera, his costar on “The Copenhagen Test,” would be a great Wonder Woman to replace Israeli actress Gal Gadot in the upcoming DC Universe film by James Gunn about Diana Prince.

“James Gunn or anybody else out there, I think she really pushes herself,” said Liu, who starred in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” during a recent interview with JoBlo. “There were a couple of moments during stunt training where I was like ‘That’s Wonder Woman-esque.’ I’m just throwing it out there. I don’t know who’s watching or listening to this interview, but I just think she’s a total badass. And she puts in the work.”

Barrera came under fire in November 2023 for sharing posts on social media that accused Israel of genocide and criticized the Jewish state during its war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, following their deadly rampage across southern Israel on Oct. 7 of that year. The actress uploaded posts on Instagram that described Israel as a “colonized” land and suggested that the Jewish state controls the media. “Western media only shows the other side,” she wrote. “Why they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself. We don’t need more hate. No Islamophobia. No antisemitism.”

If it weren't for the seriousness of the issues involved, her attempt to justify her positions with moral equivalence between "islamophobia" and antisemitism might've been funny. But truly, it's not.

Barrera and Liu were among the many celebrities who signed an open letter by Artists4Ceasefire in October 2023 that called for an immediate ceasefire to end the Israel-Hamas war, a release of the hostages taken by the terrorist organization after its invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, and an end to “the bombing in Gaza.” The letter makes no mention of the Hamas terrorist organization by name, which slaughtered 1,200 Israelis, took more than 200 civilian hostages from Israel. and led to the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

The Shang Chi movie definitely won't be aging well based on the politics of its star, and his vehement refusal, like so many modern Hollywooders, to keep his mouth shut. But it won't be shocking if Gunn does hire Barrera, given how the Superman film used anti-Israel and anti-American metaphors at the beginning. And all this is being forced into adaptations of comics that were overseen by Jewish publishers, in a medium whose early incarnations were built up by Jewish contributors. Gadot's WW movies were no classics, but if a new take on the Amazon princess casts an actress with such repellent positions in the role, that'll really make things worse, and be a slap in the face to all the Jewish publishers who helped William Marston and H.G. Peter's famous creation to fruition. There's no reason to waste money on these movie messes anymore, just as there's no reason to support the modern comics.