That is not a bad idea on its own. You want to change the appearance of the character and give new stakes and plotline. "His armor went bust and his mechanic died so he had to scrap together whatever technology was lying around to repair his body. Now with new weapons and capabilities, Cyberfrog returns for another round!" This is not a bad idea, I presume it was a bad execution though (never read it myself so I wouldn't know).
So, the world is in a bad place because Cyberfrog's been in a coma for 20 years at the bottom of a bay in New Jersey. He wakes up, finds Heather and her child, bonds with that child, harasses stand-ins for Vox Day and the early Comicsgaters Ethan ran off.
It's issue #2.
I'm sure he had this juicy emotional story he wanted to tell about Cyberfrog suffering in the future and questioning himself, but it only amounts to about 2 pages of him sitting in a lawnchair staring into the sun wondering why everybody hates him.
Then he plays soccer with human children and a fat guy in the woods---and out of no where two villains from the 90s (who survived completely unscarred by 20 years of ruthless space wasp occupation) show up and agree to help Cyberfrog ethnically cleanse the Earth.
He wanted to be all edge with Cyberfrog, and then he wanted to be all feels with Cyberfrog. You can't do both without a fedora, katana and a trenchcoat. Those are the rules.
Changing the character's power-up isn't bad, it's how stupid it is and how pointless it is due to the pacing and the payoff.
The last time I tuned in to Ethan talking about Cyberfrog plans, he was considering having all the Syn combined entities in the universe arrive on Earth to defeat the space Renfamous invasion. I just shake my head now.
You have to know where your story is going, or else you fuck up everything you're supposedly building toward.
Also there's this weird "we're totally not fucking, but we're fucking" atmosphere between Heather Swain and Cyberfrog. It borders on the human girlfriends that Sonic the hedgehog had in various games. It's like Ethan doesn't know how men and women interact in the abscense of sexual attraction. (Heather has Cyberfrog tattooed to her back, but not the name of the dead father of her only daughter born in the end times of mankind).
If Cyberfrog came out every month instead of twice a decade, Ethan could make a fun mini-arc out of a depowered Cyberfrog.
There's not enough story to Cyberfrog for that. Ethan hasn't evolved the character beyond his initial story with the character that he was working on when he was a teenager and into his early 20's. The character is a relic from the 90s with nothing but EXTREEEEEEEME gimmicks and tropes to lean on. It just boils down to Cyberfrog and Sal stopping Rumblebee and Scor
penis from stealing 40 cakes. Cyberfrog is the manifestation of Ethan's sexual frustration and the boiling hatred he had for his father/parents/homelife. Cyberfrog does everything Ethan wishes he could, including kill nuns.
