Mister Miracle has finally survived the trap of one-note portrayals that occurred in many of the team books in which he's appeared. This comic is darker in tone than Kirby's original series but the questions Kirby interrogated in his series are all still in this comic. This is Mister Miracle.

The humor is huge but the relationships behind it all are why we care.

There are other details of importance on the pages, like the acknowledgment of brutality directed at bystanders. These often overlooked moments are important to the humanity of the story– like a child standing off-center in the middle of a road after a trucking accident. His or her parents dismissed by the CIA agents as Mexicans and not worth mentioning. The child is just left there alone on the road as the action passes by.