@DarkHamster:
I love Mihawk, buuuttt all the people saying Mihawk = Shanks currently has nothing to back them up. We can take a guess by using his title as the strongest swordsman to say he's pretty strong maybe the strongest of the shichibukai but we can't say he's epic unless he backs it up.
And of the people who are arguing he's weak because he couldn't kill the 3rd commander with a slash doesn't take in account that might have been a test slash and he might not have been going all out.
For Oda to make Mihawk Zoro's goal in this story and have him be super weak makes no sense story wise and for the people arguing that he's as strong as Shank present-time wise without any support makes about just as much sense.
Anywhoooo where the f*** is Luffy it doesn't take THAT long to get from the gate to Marine HQ. I mean let's say the other ships came through about the same time the Gates of Justice opened, so Luffy couldn't have been that far behind right?!
The pirates came from the New world so they didn't go through the gates of justice. And Hinscher I agree with what your saying, especially the last part bout MJ. Most of the Shicki are within the class of a single yonkou but not their whole crew as you stated.