Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

That is, the plot isn't quite as important as how the characters react, and what they do.   The plot, the loa, the mambo, it's all a way to get to that, to heighten what people would do to each other in a world without the loa or mambo.  

And it's the scenes between Jack and Josiah that really cinched this for me.   A father who regrets all the harm he does.   A son too angry and broken to listen to what that father has to say.  It's heartbreaking, and the conclusion to this little confrontation just gets harder and harder to bear as I watched it unfold. 

Hope and despair are played off each other beautifully.   And while the art is gorgeous, I'd keep coming back to this series if it holds true to the promise of the character study in progress that it promises in this volume.