Does this mean Lanolin and Jewel will finally just disappear? God, I hope so. And maybe even Belle, too! I don't hate the idea of Belle, but they didn't use her very well, and her story arc is done, and really she's just become one more character emblematic of what's been going wrong with this series.
Unfortunately, I'm not as hopeful that Tangle and Whisper will just disappear. They're looking for Mimic, the solicits keep talking about looking for Mimic. So Mimic has the emerald and is running Clean Sweep, probably. Great. Hopefully Flynn just kills that fucker and says that with that, Tangle and Whisper can just disappear into the sunset. Then again, maybe I'm being far too hopeful, and even Jewel and Lanolin will keep being important. If they want to say Jewel becomes the Mayor of Emerald Town and Lanolin the Police Chief or something, fine. As long as they aren't important characters anymore. But maybe I'm being too hopeful, and we'll get a whole arc about them restoring Emerald Town or something.
And they keep talking about how none of them will lead the Restoration now, but they aren't just admitting that it should go away. Fucking stupid. I wish it would just go away, but instead it will probably just go to those two birds that Stanley says she likes to imagine have buttsex with each other behind the scenes. Or the gorilla mechanic guy, who I'm sure Stanley also likes to imagine having buttsex.
I really wish this was all just wrapped up in this issue. They could have just caught Mimic here, treated the issue as an epilogue, and moved on. But nope. At least three or four more issues of looking for Mimic. At least Flynn is writing, so it might be a bit better than when Stanley writes. And if we're lucky, it will just be game characters + Tangle & Whisper. And oh yeah, Rough and Tumble... and Mimic. They suck but at least not as bad. Mimic isn't a completely stupid villain, and Rough and Tumble are a bit annoying but not as bad as Lanolin or whatever. At least they serve a role as lesser mooks to fight. But they said they'd stop being villains, so hopefully the next issue is just wrapping up that arc with them, while still doing the main arc subplot of looking for Mimic.