You can if you like, but I was just pleased that Vizh's actions were consistent with that motivation, whether it was made explicit or not. That Vizh puts a huge importance on family is clear with his line about Dancer, so the idea of people purposefully putting their own children in harm's way (and more than that, wiring them with explosives) is unimaginable to him.

As a reader, I personally wasn't so sure I'd side with Dream's plan to go proactive on them before the team got down there, but once the situation was known it clearly called for it... provided they could actually pull it off.






Oh, it worked well as a plan in an impossible situation... I just wince at turning that thing on friend and foe alike for the second time. The side effects of the medications sold on TV sound horrible enough... I don't want to know what being zapped by those rays might do beyond the intended power-removal thing.

With all the weird energies the average comic book hero wades through, it's amazing they're not all hypochondriacs at the slightest symptom afterwards. Every time Spider-man gets an odd itch on his side, you'd think he'd be expecting some extra arms to grow on again.





One of the stories that commonly comes out of a stand-off with cultists, although sometimes only after the initial press frenzy and spin has died down, is hearing from people who didn't want to be there any longer but were too terrified to leave. Surely not all parents would be okay with what was done to their children, even among a group of extremists. I don't think it takes much more than the expressed gratitude of one such person to show a good reason why Dream made the decision he did. If the thing about the bodies buried there is true, then it's even more clear.





I can see where Kirk is coming from in regards to never being able to forgive anyone who would side with someone like Braun, but of course that assumes that the government didn't plan to sweep in and take him down themselves had he won. 2 birds with one stone.