Something he's always had. I have a feeling that, if I were Niles Caulder, given that sitting meant turning my back on someone somewhere, I'd arm anything I sat in even if I could walk.
This post made me go check out this issue, and then the three before it. This is a decent and legit take, IMO, and I like it. I especially like that they've gotten to this weird shit so quickly. I've been a DP fan since reading reprints in the 70s, though I couldn't stand the run of the later book till Morrison came on--and I still worship the Morrison run and think it's one of the most enjoyable comics ever.
I think the DP are special, and I get really annoyed when there are versions that suck, or even just mediocre. Like Byrne's run, particularly that awful part posted here a bit back with the quasi-pedophilic moment between Rita and Cliff, which would be bad enough, but also in the same story he has a chance not to have the accident and she talks him out of it for odd, and entirely selfish, reasons. I hated Byrne's Rita. Which was NOT Rita. And his strange was...the wrong kind of strange for DP.
The two things I think I like best in this is that Giffen has pursued the Chief-As-Dick angle, and Larry's rather fractured personality. Am I right in thinking Rebis is still part of what he is?