I think the first time you read/ see something, you do it for the emotional experience.  Do you sympathize with the characters?  Are you willing to suspend your disbelief enough to feel for them?  You read/ see it for the emotional impact. 

Reading/ seeing something the second, third, or mulitple tiimes allows you to analyze it.  How did the author construct it to have that emotional impact?  What's hidden in the writing or the art or the scene that you didn't intellectualize the first time, when you were being all emotional?

To me, that's the great joy of JB's work, and NEXT MEN in particular.  I feel for these characters, these blots of ink on a page -- I'm emotionally invested in them -- but everytime I go back and re-read the series, the levels of writing become clearer.  A detail, a word, a nuance, something catches my eye that hadn't before. 

Great work!

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About the only "bumps" I could imagine anyone finding would come from elements that did not match up to what they had GUESSED was going on. Alas, t'is often a habit among some fans to try to jump ahead of the authors, and, when they, the fans, are proven wrong, declare it is those selfsame authors who are at fault!!

The issues mesh together very well, like one grand epic.

Before JBNM #(3)1, I reread 2112, the entire series with the new issues immediately following. The flow is seamless, even with the recap. Then again, I'm from a time when almost every new issue had a recap of some sort.

I'm happy someone understands such rules, but I'm so stupid I don't get them. My only hope is to wait the last issue and try again reading the story all together.