Holy shit. This is so intense, this whole storyarc with Feral. I figured she was hiding something like that, like she had figured out a way to transfer her regenerative powers somehow, but that reveal. Whoa. I feel like I’ve been punched in the gut.

And the thing is, I don’t even know if I agree with them or not? Is such a tremendous sacrifice truly pointless? Is that nihilistic to say? Is there some way it’s part of a grander hope? Friig this comic. Bro. Okay. I’m gonna keep reading now.

“It will make a difference to this one.”

And medical advances of this magnitude can indeed accomplish systemic change, see for example the profound, lasting drop in US crime rates produced by the reduction of lead poisoning (via the banning of leaded gasoline). Patrick is really putting the whammy on her.