Yes, prior to this update I'd always found Annie the least interesting of the characters, but she has now massively gone up in my estimation, to be on a par with Nancy, Dalia, Luna, Nova and Calypso. Penny and Alex are still narrowly my favourites - not that they are really any more awesome than the others, but I just like them a bit more.Super funny that the author addressed how useless Annie as been in the past 7 chapters and decided to have a little villain speech and NUKE everything. (it still doenst make up for the fact that in the past 7 chapters the highest level character was in fact useless, but at least it means Caribdis is self aware)
Penny was the only girl not to have much content in 0.8, so hopefully we'll see more of her in the next update.