Oh, my.   This one gave me chills and made me giddy with with a sense of impending doom, like the eye of hurricane, the calm before storm.  Starting off with a missive from the black cat witch (whose name I forget) to Ozma reporting on the status of Mister Dark, and moving into the meeting-up of Dark and the North Wind for a... conversation?   But I ate it up.  Buckingham is setting the stage for a big issue 100, and wow, I cannot wait now.

As much as I love the consistent style by Buckingham over the course of this title, the art by Inaki Miranda on this was lovely, with grim scenes of the Dark-transformed Manhattan filled with his zombie-like "witherlings," contrasted with bright light-filled pages of the the Wolf/Snow kids on their "wind lessons".  It's the color by Eva de la Cruz that give this issue its punch: e.g the yellow of the construction helmets and Mister Dark's eyes contrasted against a bleak gray sky.  And that fortress on page one is I think what the "Shadowland" event over at Marvel was striving towards, but never reached.