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...funny" alongside his doubts that Spider-Man is actually there, the scene is shaded with the experiences of people living with mental illness and facing delusional symptoms.
Back upstate, Rita heads home, only to find Mojo and Spiral–their dance to this dimension successful...
While Rita's efforts to soothe Longshot's by dismissing his fears of the demon hunters were sincere, they're shown to have had an unintended effect of pushing him to question whether anything is actually real.
With Spider-Man's taunts and Longshot's feeble "please... it's not...
...is particularly wicked. His narcissism seems truly boundless, and his composure fickle as he swings wildly from brooding to utterly maniacal.
I'd spend more time talking about the obvious queerness of his relationship with Major Domo, but I'm saving my character count to...
#XSpoilers
Small thing I picked up while reading PSXM again this morning:
To Isca, they are weapons.
But for Erik? They are gifts.
And if that doesn’t point toward the incredible shift in ideology Erik has made over the years…
...trapped in Longshot's orbit.
It's only appropriate that a series as obsessed with motives as this is makes the case of the road to Rome, with Longshot learning of the consequences of his actions.
More and more each issue, Longshot is awakening to not only his identity...
...who trips over a murdered guard and smashes his face and teeth.
Pup reappears and reminds Longshot to look over his shoulder sometimes before pulling Jinx from the latest brawl between Longshot and his demons.
Their desire, simply to return home, makes their morality far...
...questioning the nature of his existence, and in dismay asks Jinx how "we" were created.
His worries of being patterned after his creators are unintentionally confirmed by Jinx, who quoting scripture, informs Longshot that "we're made in his image". Longshot's developing...
...where a pair of spineless monsters saddled on legged carriers remark on the creation of this latest batch of slaves–Longshot among them.
Nocenti's series isn't just an admonishment of the entertainment industry at large but also more broadly about those with power in general.
...unpunished by the technicality governing his probability ability.
As the unlikely companions make their way into ConEd's secret lab (Seriously guys? Signed, a very annoyed one-time ConEd customer.), Longshot is again shocked back to a memory of his past pre-reality hop...
The theme of purity of intention is also revisited in Longshot #3 as Longshot and his unlucky companion Jinx prepare to break into the ConEd plant to steal their latest haul of diamonds.
(As someone who has given ConEd my money, I am furious to learn of their diamond hoard.)