Three short stories spread over three even-numbered issues revive Moondragon and Gargoyle, and even check in with Cloud. All scripted by Peter Gillis, it’s a “New Defenders” revival as Gillis and Don Perlin try to tie up some threads from their work with the characters many years ago.
If you recall, Moondragon died in New Defenders #125, but it turns out she’s been reduced to a psychic self (only her body died), and now she is speaking through the body of her human cousin.
Also Gargoyle, who also seemed to die, became a spirit again and now he’s possessing a new human body (which was how he had a corporeal form in The Defenders, too).
This story accomplishes quite a bit, bringing back these two characters—or at least letting us know they’re still alive. It’s also neat to see both of the characters speaking through different mortals and expressing that each has feelings for the other (their romance was loosely begun in the pages of Defenders).
Moondragon flies away in a spaceship in the end, and it appears that Gargoyle, in his new body, goes with her. But it’s not clear. And the story says it will “be continued” in a future Solo Avengers issue. All that in one 8-page tale.
In the next installment, Solo Avengers #18, Moondragon (still living inside Pamela Douglas) goes to Titan to get a new body. The trip takes a long time and apparently ISAAC knows a lot about movies.
There’s a bit of an argument about the Batman movie.
With her is Gargoyle (still inside a gem from Dr. Strange). Moondragon’s new body, it turns out, is a clone—so it is born as a baby.
So now Pamela has to babysit baby Moondragon, and it turns out Pamela has her own powers.
She’s now “Sundragon.”
Pamela Douglas/Sundragon will never be seen again after this story, so it’s not really worth tagging her. I did anyway, though.
Along the way in #18 there’s a fight against Dance–the lone survivor of an insect-humanoid alien race.
By the end of the story in #20, Moondragon is all growed up and in a new costume. And Sundragon gets a name and costume, too.
Also, Gargoyle is free from his gem. Oh, and Cloud, also a former member of The Defenders, is involved. I think the whole point of these stories is to revive some characters from Gillis’ old series.
Sundragon needs to be taken out of marvel limbo so she can become not just a major player in the marvel u but a card carrying member of the Avengers and when the writers retcon it the first girlfriend of Quicksilver.