One of the important things in the comic, though, is the idea that no one is JUST one thing.
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Scott Free and his wife, Big Barda, are trying to start their lives anew, but the epic battle between the New Gods and the evil gods of Apokolips rages on and Miracle and Barda can’t help but be drawn into the battle, as well. The rules that your parents taught you, the rules of life don’t make sense anymore, and you get this feeling that you’re just trapped here, like you can’t get out, no matter what you do. You wake up every day, and you’re not in the world you once thought it was.
But in terms of this feeling we all have, this paranoia we all have. You can just read a Twitter feed and get better information. Not, “I hate Trump!” or whatever, because that’s boring. It’s our attempt to write a book that’s an epic, Game of Thrones-y superhero book, but it’s also about this contemporary moment. So this is our attempt to do something like that. “No.” You can’t be Alan Moore, but you can try, right? You can be ambitious! What the hell, right? So we were like, “Can we do that?” And the answer is. They’re great comics but they’re deeper than that, they sort of get into the veins. Mitch Gerads and I were literally like - we looked at things like Watchmen, stories that are as good as that, that sort of reflect our time. King explained to CBR that he used Mister Miracle as a stand-in for these perilous times, “This is the most ambitious thing I’ve ever done. This is a book where mental health is a major theme, but paranoia is also rampant (the “Darkseid Is” flashes certainly don’t help).