Most superhero comics exist in a world where everyone is conventionally attractive, but Mitch Byrd dares to ask "What if they lived in a world where absolutely no one was attractive?"

This is really where Chamber's self-pity starts to become really tiresome, but all of the other scenes are full of good character work that continues to validate the worth of this slice-of-life stretch of the series, whatever else one might think of them doing five downtime issues in a row.