This is how you know Steve Gerber has taken over the writing chores: You get a villain named Mordecai Jones, The Dark Messiah…and his disciples of doom.
Not even Steve Gerber could rescue this awful Gerry Conway plot in which a circus performer gets the power of a God and calls himself Dark Messiah. You’d think a guy like Steve Gerber would make this work, but … No. Maybe because DD and Widow are just the wrong characters for a foe like this.
And look how Widow is depicted:
Ugh.
The art’s not terrible, though.