And again, many of them are within the weaving of the dialogue of the story - that has been pretty strong throughout. But this time, it has weaved itself right around through the story. I do like when a comic can believably wrap itself and re-write history - not like the X-Men retro-fittings - or re-scribing. This one felt slick and organic through most of the writings - and pretty easy to follow the curving of the line of it. The Mar-Maria double-cross - then not double cross - less believable. But I loved the placing of him right below the time-arc. And his assassination of the other king? That was brilliant. And good to finally see the king bite it, too. Nice.
Not at all what I had expected.
A dreamscape memory return to the Pittsburgh of before? That is my return to Pittsburgh? Ugh. This didn't do much of anything for the real progress of the story - and the story didn't go much of anywhere. Even at the end, we're confronted with the fact that the entire idea was really nothing. Ugh. The Nightmask back story just seems to fill up more of what I have already said. That the comic can't even fill up a bi-monthly anymore.