I liked the old Comet as well; Mystery in Space was a fun series. But Morrison gets a pass to completely re-imagining the character because it was a fresh continuity where things, by design, are meant to be different. It took me a little while to warm up to the changes Morrison made actually (I did, it just took a bit). But it was a fresh continuity, what is being done here (so far of course) does not have that luxury and is instead just writing him out of character.
Totally agreed with everything. But this part right here....you know, its really nice that the only thing we have to *complain* about is that a secondary supporting character, who had a total of three lines in the issue, seems off. Its not even a complaint so much as an observation, and none of us are whining about it so much as wondering whether there's more to it than just a writer scraping what came before.
Honestly, this is all pretty high praise for a message board community.