does it invoke aforementioned bad feeling? yes. does it also do so by way of thoughtful composition, using dynamic focal points to guide the reader's eye through a series of escalatory sequences, which do get progressively worse for the hero, but in a way that rings true for the world you developed and this story's tone as a whole? absolutely. i think the amount of thought you put into each page is evident in ones like this, where the story moves forward efficiently and energetically as par for the course!

So begins the motif of Mar's mystical abilities. Literally one of my favorite through-lines in the comic is Marigold's prophetic dreams and recreational divination practices being inserted casually into the comic and never addressed. She's just........ like that.