Well things are not that bright for Jack, who couldn't get a decisive advantage on the Dukes and Ashura Douji and got smacked by Zunisha, and for Queen who got beaten by an amnesiac BM and pissed himself upon seeing BM regain her memory lol.
I can see Smoothie taking on and fighting equally one of the former admiral candidates Gion or Tokitake and her powers should deal some real damage to many marines.
Be honest I was kinda surprised when I see the fishmens and Germa66 could still put a fight after having a war against two sweet commanders and two veterans with many ministers and soldiers and also Big mom mainship.
For sake of the plot Oda nerfed again the Big mom pirates back then, be honest Smoothie and co should easily beat down the Germa66 on land and probably even the fishmens, little bother me back then.
For Jack and Queen, I didn´t only mean their battle but also panels/character development was kinda nice, Jack get enough shine during the Zou arc and Queen get his own arc with Udon though, it was little funny to see how much screentime these characters get.
For battle scenes, Jack wasn´t really ever get defeated, he either tank or attack back and Queen manage it very well against fucking Big mom(even though amnesiac she was a big threat), also we see a development of Queen character and the most important point, his weapons who are dangerous asf.
I like the character build up for both Jack and Queen, for now even better then King who probably get same screentime soon.
The only sweet commander who also get such threatment(even far better) was Katakuri.
I hope in the future Smoothie and Cracker get the same development aswell, for some reason Perospero get a very good threatment.
Good character development for both beast and big mom pirates:
Bmp: Katakuri,Perospero and Oven
Beast pirates: Jack and Queen
I like it how Perospero and Oven take more development better then both Smoothie and Cracker, compare that to the beast pirates they only hype up so far the calamity. Let see if some beast pirates veterans taking same threatment as Pero or Oven.