I agree its good -- but I don't think it always served the story.  Sometimes it gilding the lily.  I think JB does an exceptional job balancing prose with the art -- a skill often missed by comic writers (something I have always found to be the case with Claremont for example).

Edited to add:  I also think JB's prose has improved DRAMATICALLY!

Progress is a good thing, pro-gress.

Congress is a bad thing ;-)  Con-gress.

Crickets are chirping in the background.

I'm a big fan of the old-school comic-book prose narration. It is a much-missed part of the medium -- as the objective third-person narrator has lately vanished and most comics either don't have captions or employ the first-person journal-style narration Frank Miller first used in DARK KNIGHT.

That's something I loved about The Twilight Zone (Serling's narration) that was much missed in recent versions of the series that had a more straightforward, less dramatic (and less interesting) approach to the narration.

Not a hard and fast rule, of course, tho I do find, nowadays, that when I use a caption or a thought balloon it feels somehow odd.

Progress is a good thing, pro-gress.

Congress is a bad thing ;-)  Con-gress.

Crickets are chirping in the background.

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Yeah, but SOMEONE had to say it, Ted.  Thanks for taking one for the team.

I miss thought balloons sometimes.  Same for dialogue on covers.  Sometimes the best part of a comic was the writing on the cover.

Part of me was hoping that Aurora was just going to cut a small chunk of hair. At least that is what I was wanting. Going to miss her long hair. Great to see the Master and Namor again. Always enjoy seeing JB write/draw for him. Enjoyed this issue. I liked the idea of the AF gang working together in pairs.