Well John's in the thick of it now. He's got the war-mage, Mako, hot on his tail. He tries to put a cloaking spell over himself, only to find out that somebody's already done that for him. We don't really figure out who that is this issue, but you have to ask yourself why would someone go to all that trouble, and what would they gain from it? He's also having a hard time figuring out how come the mage is so close to getting him when he doesn't even know his name or what he looks like. He hasn't accepted the Shaman's story about him being the Laughing Magician, but he knows that this Mako is real. He's started to take out some of the people that know of John and his particular profession. That's when he realizes that Mako is feeding off of the memories that he absorbed from the Shaman. And those memories include everything except what he put in the root. So that means there's a hole. And the hole is tuning in on the missing parts, which are in the root. He's been carrying the homing beacon around this whole time. So he decides to play one side against the other. He sends the root to the house of the guys that did all that body transfer stuff up in Hunger Hill. They're still mad at John for disrupting their little venture. Hours later, when they finally find the root, it's sat there long enough for Mako to tune in. And shortly after he comes pounding on their door. Andy Diggle, I feel, is the perfect person to write this series. He does a great job with this character, and this type of genre. Add to that the perfect pencils of Leonardo Manco, and this book is in the best place it's been for quite a while. I'm very glad that, after 20 years, this book is doing as well as it is.
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