I can see why people like this run so much. There’s quite a few great issues and minimal disruption from the X of swords event, a nice bookending arc too, with the forge stuff I had forgotten about after reading that huge omnibus. Near the end it suddenly does feel pretty disjointed, being at a ball and a kind of random previous issue. Unfortunate, as it was really great until the very rocky finale. Why you’d end it like that, I don’t know. I guess it’s supposed to whet your appetite for the hellfire gala but instead I just wondered what the heck was going on and why is there basically a cliffhanger something random and a setup to a completely different event…?