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Whitebeard has got an underrated trash talk game. You know he got so much enrichment from insulting all the admirals while trying to save Ace

The design of Marco's devil fruit power is in general very cool, but he's also one of the few characters in the series who seems to have full control over his transformations. Here only his arms are transformed, but later on he'll be kicking people with his talons

Mythical creature zoans being rarer than logias is interesting to me given Vegapunk's speculation about their origins. If devil fruits are indeed linked to the dreams of humanity then somehow you have more people wanting to turn into swamp people than werewolves, which I find difficult to believe.

Then there's the added quirk of zoans having animal spirits of their own, separate of that of the user. Where does that come from, and what does that mean for all the zoan users we've seen thus far?

For as out of his way Oda goes sometimes to hide the eyes/face of major characters, he'll reveal what they look like at the goofiest times. In two chapters there will be a dramatic panel of Akainu removing his cap before vaporizing a deserter, but the moment's lost because he showed his face in the corner of a random splash page. Sure, he's showing off his power for the first time, but that's not event he focus of this page in particular. Just a strange choice.