Crocodile was the epitome of villainous-ness.

this thread actually brings up a good point that i had not thought about before… shanks was on roger's crew and presumably was there when they made it to raftel... and yet he is now a yonkou, the ones who are trying to get to one piece. so why has he not gotten to raftel? he doesnt want to cheat? personally, i think one piece is the rio poneglyph, so that might have something to do about it.

i agree that the sandai kitetsu may be upgraded to the nidai or shodai. however, it looks like the shodai belongs to one of the gorousei….

ive seen some posts saying that they are suprised at how big kuma is, and dont remember him being so big, and some people saying you dont really know because of perspective. well, i looked back and found this that proves that kuma has always been huge and shows just how big he is.
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/4360/onepiece23406pc3.jpg

is the cover story finally going somewhere? the people in the wall painting have wings… can the skypiean/jayan wing issue finally be resolved?

@Greg:

I was about to condemn it for being lazy but when you consider the massive number of OP projects Oda is juggling at the moment, it makes sense.

There's the Kamakura event and then the Universal Studios Japan event which he's both involved in, then the 10th Anniversary Celebration releases culminating in 10th Treasures.

He's been a busy beaver so I think we should cut him a little slack in that respect.

457 is still a sin against humanity though no matter how busy he's been.

whats wrong with 457?

i used the raws and stephen's translations. a bit of a pain, but there just simply are no decent quality scans during alabaster - a shame, as it is my favorite arc.

i think its rather obvious at this point that cindry's body was an actress before she died, and hogback had a crush/relationship with her (the shrine)… then he met moria, who could re-animate her, but with a different personality. shes got the shadow of someone who had the plate incident.

interesting chapter.

Heres a quick scan i put together of the chart. who is this raines (sp?) guy, i dont remember him either.