I remembered IDW #79 came out and read it. As usual, it was pretty meh. But if I had to give it any one thing, it's that Whisper didn't hesitate and wasn't given any opportunity to hesitate. Silver literally holds Tangle back to prevent her from trying to talk Whisper down, and by all accounts she was going to blow the stupid squid's head off and be done with it - her first instinct is even to cheer to her dead squadmates that she finally avenged them by murdering their killer. Mimic suicide-bombing to try and take her down with him, in this context, comes across less as a writer cop-out to prevent the hero from having blood on their hands and more like the last ditch option of someone with no other cards to play. This is the only moment since her debut that she didn't feel too much like Crying Lesbian, and I appreciate that.

Of course, like all things IDW, it still flubs its own setpieces by having Tangle's "we aren't going to KILL Mimic, we're going to STOP Mimic!" thing amount to nothing with no reaction (though maybe it's for the best considering there's enough soap drama), the battle itself made Silver look a little weak, and the attempt to use wisps as a makeshift pride flag like they haven't learned their lesson from Sega slapping them from the dyke flag incident during issue #61.