Written by Rockne O'Bannon and Keith RA DeCandidoArt by Will Sliney
This issue explains the reason why everyone in the universe has gone nuts (without explaining how any disease can travel so far so quickly), and once again, leaves it up to Crichton to fix things. He's aided in this by a couple of familiar faces - namely Grunchlk and Sikozu, both last seen in the Peacekeeper Wars.
As it turns out, the Diagnosian who Moya was travelling to had been experimenting with size-changing, therefore somehow creating a sentient virus that affects peoples' translator microbes, making them all angry. Why do explanations like that make more sense when they were on the Farscape tv show than they do in the Farscape comic? Are there different levels of suspension of disbelief for each media? And why does it seem like comics need a higher level of burden of proof?
Regardless, this continues to be a fun comic. I especially like how the story checks in on Commandant Grazya and Emporer Staleek, to show how the virus is affecting them.
I've enjoyed this Farscape arc more than I did the first (I'm skipping the ones that happen in the past), but haven't decided if I'm going to stick around for the third. I think the art will play the biggest role in that, as these titles seem to suffer from the usual problems of licensed books.... That said, I've been enjoying Sliney's looser style of portraying these characters.
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