learnedax | ... but there do be a crack

I just read the last issue of 1602. It's excellent.

I was slightly surprised that there wasn't more of a Surprise Twist at the end, and that the mysterious phenomenon was not fully explained. What the series excels at instead is bringing out the characters' inner turmoil and bringing all of them to exactly the right conclusion. Everything is wrapped up very, very nicely. I still think the best revelation is the last panel of issue seven.

I am curious about a couple of dangling threads. Neil and Marvel said this story is canon. Alright, so it's a canon alternate timeline... the origin timeline described in issue eight doesn't look like the Marvel canon one either, so is it entirely isolated from our usual world, or is there some potential effect?

And if there is the possibility of interaction, the state of the world is such that more titles could play around in Neil's new pocket universe. Are they going to let anyone do that?