Fixing to be a slow month for comics, not helped by the fact the local store didn't have any copies of last week's Fantastic Four. I wonder if he got shorted or if it's selling so poorly he doesn't order any. Did get one comic, at least.
The issue is framed through Dr. Badr, Hunter's Moon, having a session with Marc's therapist Dr. Sterman. Badr's becoming more aware of how his resurrection by a constrained Khonshu was subpar. He went back underground to help the Moloids (who have painted moon emblems on their foreheads, Badr's out here being a missionary, or perhaps moonsionary) that were being used as slave labor in issue 19, because the tunneling has resumed. It's no more clear what the purpose of it was, but the force behind it is revealed as Hunter's Moon found himself up against Vibro, who gloats about working for this Black Spectre.
Gloats about it in a terrible costume, while making glowy green bullseyes with his powers to repel attacks. Isn't a visual that really screams "vibration", too static. Could have given it more of a jagged, seismograph look. That might infringe on Shocker's look too much, I suppose, but he gets treated like a loser, so why worry about that?
Badr was determined to capture Vibro and get some answers, but when the battle went south, the chorus of past "Fists" in his mind took over and put Vibro in a coma. And that's the issue. The Chorus, as he calls them, are now less a database he can pull from for help, and more a raucous bunch of wild frat boys fucking with his appliances and triggering the security system. Also, you know, it erodes his sense of self if he finds his life already blending and blurring with theirs.
So the flaw in Badr's resurrection is one that wouldn't affect Marc at all, since he's never been connected to his predecessors. It's theoretically irrelevant now, since Khonshu supposedly can't do any resurrections unless they get him out of the Asgardian Hoosegow (and really, how hard can it be to escape that bunch of mead-drinking meatheads? Loki does it all the time.)
I do wonder what the issue would have been for Marc if it had been his resurrection that was imperfect. The most likely is that now all of the guys would make it back, with one of Steven or Jake being the likely unlucky one. End result is much the same, a less-effective Fish of Khonshu, since MacKay's made some effort to show what each of the three bring to the table.
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