...I purely enjoyed this series and all of what it had to say.

Nocenti is often the unsung hero of Claremont's Run–her time as line editor and Claremont's confidant underplayed in favor of putting attention toward Chris's work–but the Longshot series really highlights her...

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...creator. Arize's ideology functions as a great counterpoint to Mojo's–whereas the former has made the world beautiful around him, Mojo sees beauty only in himself.

My takeaway, as Longshot finds himself overwhelmed with the beauty around him, is that Nocenti is suggesting...

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...he's managed to bury under the "purity of his intentions"; not unlike how the Spineless Ones are convinced of their righteousness, Longshot was also able to convince himself he was right.

Each time Longshot faced the demons, he failed to acknowledge that their presence...

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...pulling back the covers more with each issue to recontextualize the series' thesis altogether.

Longshot revisits the concept of intention, finally making the point to fully separate it from the idea of impact.

Gog's hatred of Longshot is built on this theme, his anger...

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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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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.

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...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...

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The theme of purity of intention is also revisited in Longshot 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.)

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...same sense of purpose in the series third installment. It's not that the book doesn't have a lot to say; it just doesn't do it with the same grace & deliberate intention shown throughout its first issues.

Longshot opens with a grim title–"Just Let Me Die"–and introduces...

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...Hitch's stunt poses to his life and the man falls from the sky. The director's first concern, naturally, is to continue filming–surely there's cinematic use for the man's injury–as Longshot crashes into the ground just outside the dangerous set pieces.

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If fame is corrupting, then it would certainly undermine the purity of Longshot's intention, which another inserted flashback reveals as an implanted mandate for his abilities.

Without luck on his side (or honed skill like Rita's), Longshot is bested by the actual threat that...

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...supercharges him doesn't go unnoticed.

The first issue of Longshot introduced the limitations of Longshot's probability altering capacity, which again come into play as Longshot begins to feel his luck slip away ahead of Hitch's "million dollar stunt".

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...to the efforts leading lady Kimberly Price forces herself through for the sake of continued relevance–she's no further options but to exploit herself.

It quite the literalization of this theme, Longshot's recall of a forgotten memory sees him fighting for his life, losing...

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...of the ferocious band's leader.

Longshot's purity–and maybe even the faith Hester has in him–helps the man accomplish his mission, saving the baby from Gog and the sorceress Spiral.

The joy of success leaves Hester almost euphoric, declaring her love for the world and its...

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...true identity, but before Longshot can learn more, the creature disappears.

Eliot's paranoid is probably not the foundation anyone might want their identity built on top of, but their meeting introduces Longshot to the newspaper where he learns of the "petty crime" of a...

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...which is worse, remembering the identity you've lost, or not being sure you even had one to begin with?

As Longshot heads to meet Eliot in his reinforced bunker, he runs into an arguably adorable Gremline-esque creature whose thoughts imply greater knowledge of Longshot's...

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My longshot, I-know-I'm-wrong guess is Ephraim Bridger.

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