Another great Egghead chapter.
With Kuzan officially being a Blackbeard Pirate, I do wonder if he is the Tenth, despite the fact it doesn’t make any sense for Gatz to have known about it. Just feel there’s been so much build to Kuzan and in return there’s really been no buildup at all for any other figure.
I think the biggest surprise of the chapter was that BB vs Law wasn’t immediatley offpanelled (although whether we see any more of it is up in the air). I very much like the first page, but I think after that the action gets a bit messy (Blackbeard is falling in the air for like six pages? Burgess just vanishes?)
Blackbeard did his usual overconfident charge. As a fan, it’s a big part of what makes him interesting, he’s still an imperfect, up and coming enemy who does makes make mistakes. Of course, that can also leave you with a bit of egg on your face when you were saying that Blackbeard should annihalte Law. I don‘t think Blackbeard have any trouble now that he’s down on the ground and face to face though. Law I don’t think did anything beyond what he already showed in Wano, wasn’t wildly impressed by him.
Law‘s crew… all I can think there is it’s a complete waste. We had a gigantic arc with them involved, including a sea battle. Could Oda not have found a way to actually show them off then? It just came out of nowhere and seems like a half hearted attempt to answer critics about his crew being garbage.
On Egghead, feel like Bonney’s age powers should have lasted longer. Cool that she has a lightsaber. Guessing that Kuma is part of the final race missing from WCI (giants, Lunarian’s, Kuma). I very much liked the Skypiea esque journey up the ship. Shame that Zoro’s getting put on the ship with his plot delayed, although it should mean there’s something good coming for him.
Dragon finally going to get to meet Luffy? The RA coming with Kuma?