User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass Effect Book Club -- Special Edition: Foundation/@comment-4953843-20140329034922

as a standalone issue F9 is fairly okay, might even convince a couple of people to call it good. action sequences, moral crises, that face on tuchanka, and mordin's explosive footbulletry (personally found it hilarious).

factor continuity in, however, and it can almost be deemed a qualified clusterfuck.
 * let's address the "separate drops" scenario where the broker report and the comic one aren't actually the same. same mission parameters and mordin sustains facial and horn injuries in both. if salarian horns can regenerate and repeated trauma can negate it, the comic is most certainly not the avenue to tell us that. too far out of the left field, and if people have to resort to fanwankery to justify perceived inconsistencies, well, shit. (most unexplained stuff in the ME universe DO run on fanwankery, but there's usually background canon to help guide the lines of thinking)
 * so where's kirrahe and rentola? rentola conceivably could be offscreen doing what he did in the dossiers, but lack of cloaca-calling is distinctively telling.
 * why introduce the captain chaleen character, give him a few frames (and not enough screen time or characterization to warrant an article), when we already have more familiar salarians? unless he's meant to be kirrahe or rentola ("chaleen" a last or a first name?), i can only shrug.
 * kirrahe switches skin colors from green to light brown between ME and ME3. the drop happened before or during ME. tony parker (issue artist) doesn't do too much of a job to differentiate salarians that aren't mordin and maelon. if kirrahe and rentola are indeed present, you wouldn't know it.

one of its few saving graces is that nobody familiar gets OOC (except for one panel where mordin apparently talks straight - chalking it up to salarian coloring goof), and while maelon's a ham in the stg report his muted comic portrayal can reasonably fall within his ME2 characterization.

comparing the comic and the broker dossiers i've come to the conclusion that one or both of them contains outright fabrications: either by mac, or in-universe by characters submitting the report. as to why submit a doctored document in-universe when it's shown that the broker can detect erasures from the record as evidenced by maelon's formal protest, i have no explanation.

if it turns out rasa only imagined the scenario in her head that certainly calls into question every other issue she forrestgumped into. or at least, the ones she's not directly involved with (kaidan, mirandajacob).

tl;dr, i know, but the issue does deserve extended scrutiny. the other issues are surprisingly in line with what we already know, but this one pushes it.

if you have twitters, it's probably the time to pester mac (politely) for clarifications on this issue. unlike most other foundation issues the questions here are too significant to let slide.