Ok, last issue ended with Johnny kicking the crap out of Dr. Strange. Well actually, he was burning it out of him. The real problem is that he wasn't holding back at all, because he believes that Dr. Strange is just Lucifer in another of his disguises. He ends up taken so much out of him, that Numecet has to show up to try to talk some sense into him. And to try to help the Doc recover. She really doesn't want to get involved, but she ends up leaking some information to Johnny. See, his problem is really two fold. He already knows that when he escaped from Hell, he accidentally brought Lucifer with him. Well, accidentally by design. Anyways, what he didn't know is that Lucifer doesn't have a coporeal form on earth, so his essence was divided 666 times, and each of those has gone out to inhabated a recently deceased person, and wreak havoc. So on one hand, Johnny feels responsible and will most likely go out in search of all of Lucifers forms. But, on the other hand, every time he defeats one of his hosts, that energy is divided between all the remaining hosts, and therefore each one becomes a little stronger. So right now, each of his hosts possess 1/666th of his power. But, as they are defeated that fraction will increase. Until eventually, he'll get down to 2 with each of them possessing 1/2 of his power. So basically Johnny is , "damned if you do, and damned if you don't". Of course he's hot headed, literally, and thinks that he can rush out and take care of this. But, we'll have to wait until next issue to see what he can actually accomplish. Great writing by Daniel Way, and extraordinary art by Mark Texiera. I'm glad this series is back.
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