I am currently the unfortunate dope caught in between one of the people we regulate and the guy he stupidly agreed to let operate under his permit. And they're 3+ hours away, so I spent most of today on the road. Fortunately, last weekend I found two books from earlier this month over the weekend.
Moon Knight's decided their best place to start bringing down Fairchild's operation is by developing something that will let people stop taking Glitter without dying. For that they need a bio-chemist, specifically Hank Pym, who is apparently hiding in Sub-Atomica, but also keeping an eye on his daughter. So Marc takes 8-Ball's comment about how villains do things as a suggestion, and gets his squad to dress up as villains and attack Nadia van Dyne, attack the Unstoppable Wasp.
This actually works in drawing out Pym, which means Tigra gets to have a conversation with him. Meaning she yells at him, but I'm mostly here for the flashbacks where 8-Ball is getting excited about outfitting Reese and Hunter's Moon as villains. Especially Reese, who ends up as "The Chalk."
It's that thing Krusty explained to Sideshow Bob's brother. Nobody wants to see a person get hit by a pie that's begging for it. They want it to be someone with dignity; meaning someone who hates it. And MacKay consistently writes Reese as clearly thinking she's much more worldly and mature than everyone else in the book. Even in this issue, when Pym starts making excuses, Reese's contribution is, 'She sure has a type.' This from the lady who got herself turned into a vampire by some fucking yuppies, which I think disbars you from opining on other people's bad life decisions (and to be clear, Tigra dating Pym was a terrible idea, even setting aside the part where it was a Skrull infiltrator.)
In other words, Reese's misery at this entire experience makes her perfect for it. I was dying laughing all through the fight scene.
Now that the crossover is safely concluded, the Deadpools want to find Death Grip, and they figure the guy who gave him the magic sword he killed Wade with is the one to ask. After a two-page Wolverine cameo, which establishes only that Solem had his own Muramasa Blade he gave to Death Grip (and which involves Deadpool wearing a parka and earmuffs in July for reasons that are not explained), they go confront Solem.
I was gonna call him "the Arakko guy," because I can't be driven to care about him, but it's too many words. Apparently he's a hedonist? Or something. Is that an established character trait? I thought all the Arakko folks cared about was fighting and killing, but this guy has a Pleasuredome and a Pleasuretorium, if the point wasn't being driven in quite heavily enough. He agrees to the old "beat me and I'll tell you," gambit. Because he's got Adamantium skin?
Well, whatever. Somehow, trying to kill Miles Morales got the Deadpools a different magic sword, so they cut Solem enough he gives them the info. And he writes it in his own blood, because Eleanor suggested it, which did make me chuckle. Ziglar lets her be more than a little shocked and freaked out by everything going on in the Pleasuredome, which actually seems to annoy Solem. It's a fairly decent bit of character interaction.
Next issue they face Death Grip, who has apparently started resurrecting people to learn what exists on the other side of death. Seems like there's enough people out there with that experience he could have just asked, rather than killing and reviving all his followers. Control freak.
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