Wow, really? Disappointing chapter. I really like Giriko, but at this point I think it would have been a cooler death if he had just stayed in his old body and died that way. That was the dumbest death.
And it doesn't seem like we got anywhere in the Black Star/Kidd fight, EXCEPT confirmation that Excalibur is the unnamed "Old One" (YESSSSS). The black blob is starting to really remind me of Cthulhu, especially since it rose out of the bottom of the sea this time.