This one stepped up a notch and showed me the penises of the gods. 
 (Not really, but yeah, they were pretty damn big. It took one hell of a high priestess to get Squiddy to put them away.) 
 Flashbacks have their place, and I'm not going to poo on this parade. A good cthuhulu reason for it will always earn top marks for any forced backstory, but thankfully, these backstories were damn good. Every story has a good time and place to be told, and being consumed in the nightmares that feed on the inequalities between universes is always a good time to tell them. 
 Always.