I realized today that I've been looking at this series from the wrong perspective. Or from the expected perspective, and I shouldn't have been. The series is, after all, called The Last One. The propensity of a series like this, in which human characters are gathered around this kind of ethereal character, the stories tend to be about the humans, rather than about the being themself. Neil Gaiman's The Sandman was performing this par excellence at the very same time that DeMatteis and Sweetman's series was running.
The end of today's issue made me realized that we're not really supposed to be paying too, too much attention to the people around Myrwann, to to the Last One themself. It's the story of what happens when a creature like this spends too much time around humans, experiences too many of their stories, and becomes corrupted and weighted down by them. As Myrwann experiences more, they become larger and larger, taking on corporeally the spiritual weight they also take on.
I'm making it a point to see about tracking down various minis that came out of Vertigo at this point. I have a whole bunch of them that I think I may pull out and read. Pretty much everything I've read from the publisher from the early 90s is absolute gold.
"And then I heard it, from high atop the Great Hill."
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