Was rereading Impulse #84 and I'm not one who usually pays attention to coloring (my brain just hardly focuses on it), but this time around I did catch up to something.
The fact that Bart, who usually wears more colorful, if not outright bright, outfits, for this particular issue, is wearing gray from head to toe...
Exactly for the chapter where his life, which has been taking blow after uglier blow ever since losing Carol, snaps the final thread when it's decided (against his will, at first) that he would be leaving Manchester and the only person left who actually took care of and knew him for the past year.
#84 is pretty much the in-fact final issue of Impulse. There are a couple after, but they are more him-focused parts of plots happening in other runs. So this issue is where Bart's life in Manchester, his adventures with friends, family and rogues, comes to an end.
I don't know if the artists did this on purpouse, or if I'm just hyperfixating in a detail, but it's still something that gave me a moment of pause and shook my heart a little:
The fact that Bart's usually bright weardrobe going gray can represent his in-canon state of glooming and loss, as much as it represents a sad farewell for this run and these adventures that just wouldn't happen anymore.
