Written by Brian Witten and Robert Napton
Drawn by Calvin Irving and Richard Horie
Published by Image Comics

This issue coincides with a crossover that was running through Rob Liefeld’s Extreme Studios comics at this time called BABEWATCH where, due to some magical shenanigans that I won’t get into, all of the male superheroes were temporarily transformed into women.

The 1990s were a wild time for comics, man.

So it’s been a week since the end of the previous issue and Chapel has been crashing at Martha’s apartment in New Orleans. Both of them seem to have gotten over the death of Jeff, Chapel’s longtime friend and Martha’s father, pretty quickly, as he’s not even mentioned by either of them.

Chapel wakes up as a woman and is naturally shocked. Martha takes him outside, where they’re quickly catcalled and harassed by some annoying men. Thankfully for Chapel, being in a female body hasn’t dulled his strength or fighting skills, and he beats the crap out of all of them. Then, after he tells Martha about his visions of Lord Chapel, she takes him to a local psychic named Madame Sue. Despite his skepticism, he agrees to see her, but this ends up somehow unleashing the demonic figure of Lord Chapel, who starts causing a bunch of environmental disasters across the globe, from the sinking of an oil tanker in the ocean to the impending eruption of Mt. Saint Helens. And it ends on a cliffhanger involving SPAWN.

Well, at least the series is finally getting to the subplot that’s been teased since the first issue, although I’ve never been clear how Lord Chapel became a separate being from Chapel. The Babewatch gimmick is funny but ultimately pointless, and the art on this title feels like it’s been falling in quality as Calvin Irving is joined by Richard Horie.