Yeah, this sort of thing would've been paced much much slower in Adv. 1. We've just been left with a few too many questions and generally not enough time for all this? At least the cameras are back on the crew, though.
One thing is I'm really wondering why no one on the team thought it prudent to wear a mask through the fire, but I'm not sure why that bugs me a lot. In a particularly fiery place, or even in a mildly smoky place, my eyes will start to burn even if I cover them and breathe through cloth. Plus, explosion fire in an industrial kitchen definitely isn't the good type of fire.
Side note: Minna did say that she'd like to end SSSS on a place where she could pick it up again if she ever felt like it. Not that her decisions with the comic now are great, or that that justifies whatever the ending will be.
I do think some of these questions about the folklore/spiritual elements can be left to personal interpretation, but the storytelling's too feeble right now to keep readers from picking up these inconsistencies.
She usually takes a break over Christmas / New Year's, so it's possible we may have only on the order of a dozen pages left in the story proper.
Oops, I totally forgot about that. If she does decide to just push through so she can get SSSS done with, that wouldn't be surprising. But I feel like I'll be able to breathe a huge sigh of relief once it's done anyway, so I'm vaguely looking forward to it.