I’d guess that she honors the Twelve Gods as the divine watchers of the South (Lawful) and works to follow the principles of select members (Good).
We don’t really know enough about the Southern Pantheon to say but we do know that the Azurites revere the Twelve Gods as a whole and have paladins, so they apparently have it figured out.
There’s also the fact that Miko was crazy as a squirrel. She had the ability to convince herself of the truth of anything she wanted to believe. So she would have been able to believe she could worship an evil deity while being a paragon for good.
In (IIRC) The Deed of Paksennarrion someone says that evil gods sometimes pretend to sponsor paladins for their own amusement and evil ends.
And it may very well be the “necessary evil” Kind of god, comparable to sometimes Lokis role. You have to have someone to do the dirty deeds sometimes, or even have someone to tempt the mortals in order for them to make a conscious decision to be good. There is a reason god created Satan according to some christian interpretations - without Evil, the choice to do Good is meaningless.
Well, the entire Sapphire Guard seemed to revere the Twelve Gods so I don’t think this is any dissonance unique to Miko.
Sort of like what DerNils said, it could also be that some of the Twelve Gods have a portfolio including some shady stuff like secrets or illness or pain but aren’t generically “evil”. Or it’s like twelve political parties – you consider yourself a loyal citizen of your country and government but you work to promote Party A (and maybe B, C & D to lesser extents as allies) but oppose the actions of Party E, F, G and H.
“Thor, pass the chips, please.” Haha.
You can do it, Durkon!
Are we guessing that “Jack” is Jack Kirby?
“We used to have a pyramid diagram that explained this better…” took me a minute, but best line in the strip.
Undoubtedly.
“I used to be a ginger…” <snerk>
Snerk? It was a full-blown belly laugh for me.
Hah, vindicated!
There does seem to be the suggestion that at least some ascended gods do survive the Changing of Worlds. But the proportion must be awfully low, for the universe to not be overrun by ascended gods by now.
I haven’t seen it explicitly stated, and I am be misunderstanding, but I am assuming from Thor’s words that there has never been a new quiddity with any of those new gods before though, so it may be new territory for everybody.
Thor pretty much says that in panel 2 of strip 1142. He doesn’t explicitly say that all previous ascended gods acquired the quiddity of the pantheon that sponsored them, but it’s strongly implied.
Just thought of something. It’s about “Dedication”, one of the 4 deific food groups. When someone dies, their god gets a Dedication from that event, but, if panel 8 is to be believed, only if the god is invoked at the point of death. Furthermore, he says Hel has “been filling up on empty Dedications…”. So lots of people, having been reduced to 0 HP, say “Oh hell…”, and that dedicates their death to Hel.
As Thrym says “it must be cool to have name that lends itself to so many good villain puns.”
I am surprised then that there isn’t a deity named Fuck. 
Someone (it may have been in this thread) said that he had a D&D character who worshiped a deity named “Oh shit”, because it made prayer in stressful situations automatic.
I liked that, too.
It’s really interesting when Rich spends a comic answering a question that naturally arises off a plot point addressed earlier. After the last comic, the biggest issue I had was why it wouldn’t be advantageous to all the Gods to just blow the planet up and start over. After all, they’d apparently done just that billions of times already. By starting over, all the Gods, or at least the pantheons, would have to get together and recreate a world to trap the Snarl.
But I guess I just had to wait one comic and it’s spelled out why that wouldn’t work.