"I'm willing to call "Stylistic choice" on the depiction of Hank and roll with it."
I'm not sure about that. Even with all the stylistic variations in how he's been drawn since assuming the cat-form this one veers wildly from a feline face. Then again I am a cat lover, so I'm probably persnickety about these things. :\
"I also like the Snake/Dragon guy. Maybe he isn't the best clairvoyant in the galaxy (he seems to be more of a department head)..."
I thought he was an empath? (But I haven't read Whedon's ASTONISHING run so I could be missing something going off the preview alone.)