Only have Pythons and not interested in Easters, so I'll try for these for a 'flashy' colorway, especially since they're $20 less than I thought they would be.
I think Oda has art that stands with the other two, especially with backgrounds (love the Spanish influence of the current island) and the variety of male character designs, but as you said, that's personal preference. The only beef I have with Oda's art is that all his attractive women look...
The following Raw and his mild push for the rest of the yearalmost made up for it, but it still rankles as a baffling, boneheaded decision. I hope Bryan finally gets his 20 minute singles match at WM30 because I'm sure it'd be fantastic.
It's definitely a hard film to get a hold on. Probably best to think of as an anthology of disparate short films connected by a bizarre framing device.
I'll stand by John Hyams's Universal Soldier films as being competent action movies. Don't even need to see the previous ones in the series; it's better if you go in blind.