I...have no idea what happened here.
So, Mr. Toxic wasn't a future Marder? He was a clone? If so, I'm not really sure why the original Marder is the one decomposing. Shouldn't he be stable? After all, he seemed fine at the end of last issue, when he survived his exposure to the particle accelerator. They do mention a "calculation error" at the end of that issue, so I guess that it's this error that's causing him to decompose. But, Daniel doesn't really explain that. Continuing on that theme, why would Marder's death hurt Mr. Toxic's? The whole reason I thought that Mr. Toxic was a future version of Marder was that he mentioned that he would die if Marder died. But, if he's just a clone, why would Marder living or not living have any impact on him? Finally, I'm not sure what Professor Manhart's special "genetic cocktail" was supposed to do. Was it going to combine the two of them together? Is that why Marder had to be alive for the clone to survive? Finally, taking it back a step, why would a device built for time travel cure a genetic illness in the first place? Someone at some point mentions that it turned Mr. Toxic into a being of pure energy, but I don't understand how the accelerator did that or, more importantly, how it's connected to curing the disease. Honestly, I don't even know. Daniel just throws a lot of mumbo jumbo at us here but none of it makes a lick of sense.
But, making matters worse, this issue just ends. Batman does something with some foam and a fully healed Marder appears. However, it's unclear if it's Marder or the clone. In fact, no comment is made about how only one of them survived, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to believe that Professor Manhart was successful and combined them. Shouldn't someone noticed that they were missing one of them? I think the survivor is also in theory still dying of radiation poisoning. If so, is it just Marder? Seriously, it's just one big mess. I'm just going to end talking about it here, because it doesn't merit this level of attention.
What's not a mess? The effing amazing back-up story that makes you wonder why James Tynion is stuck writing back-up stories when Tony effing Daniel is allowed to write "Detective Comics."
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