The art is incredible, the paradox energy spilling out of the panels, the shifting doctors, The War Child's fate, it's all just done really really well. We also get the origins of both The Malignant and The Then and The Now, which are both brilliant and both just work. There's no way to have guessed them, but the reveals of each both just make so much sense.

And then there it is with Squire. It was alluded to earlier in the story (and in the title), and the setup has been there all along, but I didn't see it coming, and it's brilliant and horrific and so much more. The art at the end especially sells it, Squire with a broken neck, standing over the body of Daak. "your squire lives, your squire is dead, your squire sleeps"