I respectfully disagree. The stuff with Davan and Nancy over the past week or so is absolutely blowing me away. Milholland is all about delayed gratification, about plot threading so long-term it never fails to astound me. As a writer he's patient in a way I can't even begin to identify with. And in its own tantalizingly glacial way the strip has finally started to touch explicitly on what I consider to be one of its core elements: everyone is growing except Davan.