YMMV / Boomer Express

• Cargo Ship: Jared and corned beef sandwiches.
• Catharsis Factor: Jared and Vikki defeating the two Precursors seen in the comic thus far is a highly satisfying moment, considering how smug and sadistic both creatures acted.
• Harsher in Hindsight: During the first act of book one, a Gholem creature called Tim trains Vikki on how to use magic. The whole arc follows several familiar beats: Vikki struggles, has many accidents and missteps and displays moments of doubts where she feels she will never do it right, only for her mentor to find a special alternative way (in this case something known as "Backwardian magic") that helps her be a success and come out on top. It`s later revealed that Tim was a traitor who was working with the demon antagonists, and that he mistaught every magic lesson to Vikki in his made up category of magic, except for a resurrection spell that gets her captured/possessed by the monster he and the demons were trying to resurrect. This info ends up putting everything in Vikki`s first major arc in a darker tone.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: After Vikki defeats Typhonis (the Precursor creature at the end of book two who tried to destroy the main hero`s home world) it asks her why she didn`t just take the easy way out and flee from her dimension when given the chance. Vikki`s response before delivering the final blow is that Jared risked his life to save her and another world from a similar sort of danger, implying that his heroics from book one inspired her to do the same here.
• Moral Event Horizon: Prince John crosses this not long after he is introduced into the story by sentencing Jared, Vikki and Isa to a painful death, with the former for "stealing" the dragon that was meant for him (despite the fact that Isa already explained why the dragon ended up in Jared (it leaped into him to avoid being taken by Kaminovo during Jared and Vikki`s delivery)), and the latter two females for "treason" (which was really Isa voicing her shock to Jared getting an out of nowhere death sentence and Vikki being presumably dragged in through guilt by association). Had it not been for a Deus ex Machina by Angus Mc Cleod (a red fox who the kangaroos already encountered), the cruel and unusual sentence would have been carried out.
  • It`s strongly hinted that Prince John may have crossed the line earlier offscreen as well, as Angus mentions at one point that he`s grounded for burning a town down a week before the kangaroo trio arrived while King Montifort reminds him later that he can`t sentence anyone to death until he`s 18 (implying some repetitive dark Noodle Incidents).
• Tim, a Gholem who trained Vikki into using magic, is revealed to have crossed the line before the Precursor battle near the end of book one. What he did was intentionally mislead Vikki in most of her training by teaching her a form of magic that didn`t exist, except for one spell that would resurrect the aforementioned Kiaju like beast. Then, after giving a false impression that he`d come to save the hero`s from the demons amid a planned revival ritual, Vikki ends up using the real, mislabeled spell he taught her to stop the threat, much to his joy alongside his demon accomplices. The result, Vikki ends up being the soulgem of the creature and barely makes it out of the ordeal alive, with her description of the experience leaving her in a temporary state of trauma. To say that Tim got what he deserved from the demons later on proves to be nothing short of cathartic.