Well, I was able to get everything I still needed from October, plus one book from September I was still after. Which unfortunately only added up to three comics. Whoo. Also, I'm typing this at 4 in the morning on Sunday, so this could get loopy. Or not. Hard to tell.
In the present, Max fended off at least some of the locusts. Enough to have time to demand Ford's people tell him where the kid is. In the past, we see Ford trying to sell Max on staying with them, but mostly just revealing that he's kind of a nut. Max has no intention of staying, if for no other reason than his mom wants out, but then he hears drums in the basement, and comes across Ford leading a bunch of people dressed like it's a Klan rally.
Ford figures all the locusts were sinners, and God is telling the faithful to make sacrifice to bring an end to this. Ford is ready to sacrifice his own daughter. Who he conceived with his own sister a few years ago. That would be the child Max was trying to escape with in the flashbacks in issue 4, the one he's presumably trying to recover in the present. As for his mother, well, Max' descent into the basement didn't go unnoticed, and some devoted acolyte decided to show Max the penalty for his actions. Lovely people. Really makes you wish for an Old Testament God. One who didn't fuck around, and just unleashed some cataclysm that killed everyone quickly.
So this issue does nothing to answer my question of who the person was at the head of the convoy at the end of issue 4. Which I guess means we'll find out about that whenever this series picks back up again. There hasn't been a solicit for issue 5 through January, at least.
The whole sequence where Max is fighting the locusts in the present is colored in relatively bright reds. Not too bright, but enough it stands out against the rest of the comic. Especially the quiet parts of the flashback, before Max heads into the basement. Those parts are given a flat grey shade to everything. Dull and faded, like a distant memory maybe. The basement sequence gradually gets more and more orange to it, but it's like what I said about the coloring of light in my review of issue 4. It doesn't really seem to reach anything. Everything else just stays pretty much the same shade or color. Then the reds come back at the very end of the issue. Not surprising, given the level of violence.
The mysterious person who's been watching Moon Knight comes up with another test. He gets someone to steal Moon Knight (or Steven Grant's) money, and threaten to make it vanish if Moon Knight doesn't do as he says. The first order was to beat the hell out of Jigsaw, so Moonie went along with that. But Reese figured out what general area the guy was hiding in, and Tigra just so happened to come visit Marc, so she can take it the rest of the way. Another hurdle cleared.
The other part of the issue is everyone (meaning Tigra and his doctor, and I guess Jigsaw) ask why he's wearing the mask. The doctor, in terms of what significance it has. Tigra, in terms of why he won't take it off. Jigsaw just thinks he's funny. I guess with a face like that you need a sense of humor. Marc gives different answers. That it's a sign of who he is, a vestment of sorts. Or that it's to protect his friends. (He doesn't give Jigsaw an answer. Unless a beating counts.) He does finally give Tigra what I assume passes for the real answer, at the end. It's a good enough answer, seems like it can fit with the character.
Typically, when Moon Knight's in the caped look (as opposed to Mr. Knight with the suit) Cappuccio gives him eyes that glare. But there's one panel, during the end conversation with Tigra, where he manages to make them look sad. Which is unusual enough it stood out instantly, even though there's nothing else remarkable about the panel.
Also interesting how much of the Moon Knight outfit Rosenberg colors black, versus the Mr. Knight look. In this issue, that could be explained by the latter being worn in daytime scenes, the former at night, but I think it holds across most of the issues. He was Mr. Knight in issue 2, when he confronted the janitor with the weird sweat at night, and the outfit was pretty much always all white. I don't know the significance of that. Two sides of the Moon, light and dark, obviously, but as far as his personality, not sure.
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