You know, on second thought, the change between 16 years ago Dofla Family and 10 years ago Dofla Family is TOO drastic. It's not just the massive bellies most of them grew in the span of 6 years (so, nothing to do with spending a decade of debauchery and self-indulgence living the high life in Dressrosa's palace), but also Jora and Lao G look much older, specially Lao. Either Oda forgot we already saw the family 10 years in the past, or. . .something else happens in there.
Obviously, I don't believe for one second the current family is weaker in any way just because of their looks.
And if Dellinger is not the son/grandson of anyone in the crew, then he's got to be the most badass human being alive, being able to impress Dofla while being barely months old. I guess this excuses the 3 fallen Colosseum Gladiators at Delli's hands, seeing how he basically was a badass from birth.
Law's backstory was good enough. The last pages frantic montage of tragedies piling up could've maybe used a bit more room to breath, but the fact this flashback will at least be 2 and a half chapters long is already good enough, and Oda felt no need to keep that going. Plus, I think we got the magnitude of the tragedy just fine.
My favorite thing though has to be the Family just doing their errands while nonchalantly doing their mandatory exposition on Law's backstory.
Also, there's just an INSANE amount of nuggets/easter eggs/lil' details for those with good eyesight in here. The thing with Crocodile in the newspaper is just insane. Massive props to the guy that saw that.
Law - Baby5 hit-and-cry was pretty easy to catch, but nice nontheless. Dofla reading about Law's hometown, glasses off, links to real life stories (and maybe even places), super hidden Pandaman, guessing the pizza's ingredients (fruti di mare, nice catch once again). . . .tons of awesome stuff. I think I liked all of that (plus the family being impossibly cool, as stated above), than Law's backstory itself, even if also pretty good.
And also the thing with the ruins in the coverstory. Great find, honestly.
@King:
The mountains behind the building in the cover story.
The newspaper doesn't show those mountains.
Those ruins are totally out of place in port town. Something or someone just. . ."stuck" them in there, but it's pretty clear they're even tilted to one side.
Here's the thing, though. A sea town disappears, something's up with some ruins, then these ruins appear at these port town where, precisely, sea monsters were seen rampaging. . . .
. . .I don't know where it's exactly going, but I think we can, at least, start linking things together. My prediction is that, sooner or later, we'll find sea kitty's lost town around there.