In his introduction to The Human Target: The Deluxe Edition, writer Tom King calls it “the book I always dreamed of making … the comic that is as perfect as I can possibly make it.”

This level of hype, before the book even gets started, may not have been entirely helpful.

I am a Tom King fan, a true believer, more perhaps than many I’ve encountered. These claims did not on their face seem unachievable. Already Human Target’s got two Eisner wins and a nomination, and a premise as sharp as anything I’ve encountered.