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For some reason. Yeah, there's. There's. There's a. It's a brain processing thing. I don't know. Yeah, I love, love all of the. The kids creations are so fun to just see causing havoc. Yes. For Peter. I don't want them to cause havoc, obviously, but they're really fun designs and the. I don't know what it looked like in the Japanese, the lettering, but I like it really like added a whole other level of fun to it here for someone who's like a fan of that sort of thing here. So. Yeah, again, my compliments to Vanessa on that. I think the thing. The very first page and kind of what comes out of that is something that's going to be very important. And I've been, you know, I think since Egghead, I've been talking about how kind of Elbaf could hold all of the answers to what we're looking for just because it's been around for so long. Which also explains why ODA's probably going to incinerate it in the story, or at least in part because it probably should hold, you know, the answers in some regard. And, you know, pondering the astral level of this, really, the less we hear about that as the story goes on, the more curious I am as to what that's supposed to be. I think we talked about the Tree of Mike kind of tree that you see from. From outside the surface. Look, I don't think that's like scientifically going to make sense, but I could see that being possible in one piece. It's. It's not completely unreasonable here that it goes into space. You know, I'm going to talk about space and the moon here. This is my job. So. Yeah, I. The. That mural really like sparked something, I think in me that had, you know, I think we got some of that during Egghead, but like endgame stuff is so much fun and this just adds a little. A little grain of salt on top of that or whatever. Just sugar. Frankie is very funny throughout this too, because he's just the reader pointing out how this all, you know, like you getting lost doesn't really make any sense in the story and there's a lot of fourth wall stuff there. Yeah, I, I think trying to think of what else that hasn't been discussed. Oh yeah. Brooke generally this was a really shining moment for him. Even though he wasn't really in it. He got his really lame joke in love it. He the, the stuff with his music actually, you know, getting through to someone who is his enemy and a shitty person is really fun story wise. And it's actually I think so Alex who you know, I'll mention it now I want to congratulate him because he had the baby in the time between. Yay. Sorry, I'm doing this unceremoniously. I was going to say later but also very well timed. He was on the podcast last week and it happened in this time. But huge congratulations to him and his family for, for that. Which I'm sure we'll talk more about at the end. But this is like such a, an Alex thing because I think he's been waiting for like the one thing we haven't seen about Brooke is his fame and people recognizing him. And like why isn't he more of a presence in the world? And we're finally getting a little of that. It took like 10, 15 years, but here we go. A little bit. A little morsel of a famous brook. And I, I want to see more of it. But yeah, I, I, I, I think this is the first little bit of that. I want to see more of it. Colin is adorable. I actually do agree with Nami's reaction. Even though then she should have probably been like, maybe don't take a wooden sword into battle right now. This is probably not going to work the way you, you know what, whatever. We're there. I guess we'll be the babysitters as we head into a ferocious battle. But yeah, I, I think the, I mean like we, we talked about a little. The tea party is these, these that, that I'm just gonna say CP0 that the Holy Knights are having is very funny. They are very funny, distinct characters, but they are awful, awful, awful people. And I think Oda is doing a really good job doing both of those things. Gunko is the only one where I'm like, you're humanizing her too much. She really shouldn't. Like, I know Oda loves making his villains turn into good guys, but like celestial dragons, I feel like you can't. And I know we had Don Quixote, what's his Face, Yo's guard. But like that one, I think is more earned. I get it. Like, and he died, which is. So he suffered for what he did in the past. But, like, you can't. It's. When you humanize these people, I mean, ironically, they don't think of themselves as human, but in the other direction, it's a really dangerous place to go, I think, at times. Like, these guys in particular. Particular so. And also, Gunko just looks so anime. Once again, Sam's catchphrase that, you know, that just scares me. Like, don't get figures of. Although on the other hand, I would totally get five elders figures, but only because they're so. It sounds so lame to get about five old men as figures. That's. That's why I would do that. But I'm getting really off topic on my own podcast about. Anyway, I do also love the last panel. I. I think the stuff that he does with the drawing, the. The. The creatures that. That the kids are afraid of is really cool. The markers he's using, I'm wondering if he's doing it in color or not, because it's the same kind of thing he did with the mural. It's that same kind of art. This is not my forte, but the texture work. Yeah, texture work. Thank you. Yeah. I. So, like, I wonder if he did draw a color version of that mural or if he just used black and white markers for it, which is more likely.
