One thing I've never been any good at is getting over a mistake I make. Until I can see it's not going to cause more problems, it just lingers in my mind, sometimes even beyond. At this point, there's a particular mistake I'm going to be thinking about for at least another six weeks. Lovely. Here's some comics that were light on plot from two weeks ago.
In this issue, Moon Knight deals with a haunted apartment building. More specifically, with one particular floor, one the building is not supposed to have. One that doesn't let people leave once they arrive. It does, however, throw Moon Knight out. Because his brain is too crazy to absorb. Marc gets some intel from Wong and goes back to make the haunted floor an offer/threat. And Moon Knight gets his Midnight Mission back, although the idea of encouraging people to step inside and ask for help seems, well. . . Like something a crazy guy would do.
It's funny (or sad) this is set after Moon Knight escapes from prison in that Devil's Reign one-shot I didn't buy, but this shipped first. Great work, Marvel. Anyway, it's a decent enough one-off story. Cappuccio mostly draws the House of Shadows as long hallways with peeling wallpaper and deep shadows. Although Cappuccio is always adding deep shadows. There's also skeletons. Lots of skeletons. Those are new. Haven't been many of those in the book up to now.
The more interesting long-term development is Dr. Sterman questioning whether Marc can actually help people at all. She mostly couches it in the old question of whether superheroes only attract more violence. Which, with Zodiac specifically trying to target Marc, has some validity. Although Marc's presence also brought in Hunter's Moon, so that's an extra person to protect the innocent. However, the part of the session we see ends with her questioning whether it's a good idea for Marc to be a superhero.
This is probably her trying to give Zodiac what he wants, to make Marc violent. Abandon this notion of helping people. But it's not unfair to question whether this is the best thing for Marc's mental state. Being Moon Knight, remaining tied to Khonshu in a sense. Throwing himself into these situations, hurting and being hurt.
Most of the issue is Jen trying to figure out what happened to Jack of Hearts and why he's there. It doesn't go well. Jack knows he was trapped in a tube somewhere after his death, his energy being siphoned off, and he eventually got away, determined to find her. Why? he doesn't know. Who had him? No clue. Why? No clue.
What Jack does figure out is, he's thirsty. For the first time in years. Hungry, too. So Jen gets him a lot of food, although Jack's apparently forgotten frozen food should be cooked first. Man's eating pizza rolls right out of the box. Also, Jen suggests they could get actual pizza, but there's a slice of it on a plate right in front of Jack. Also also, I think the turkey he ate part of was a tofurkey, because there's a hind quarter missing, but there's no bones visible.
Jack also doesn't want to contact the Avengers, because he's concerned Tony Stark will throw him back in an isolation chamber. Jen can't disagree with his assessment, so she lets him crash on her couch (he needs sleep now, too) and heads to work. Meanwhile, whoever Jack escaped from has a disturbing bulletin board full of stuff about She-Hulk.
Darn, Jack comes back from the dead to be used as a patsy before Slott kills him off in that Reckoning War thing. Come on, we all know when they say someone's gonna die, and Jack's standing there with She-Hulk and 3/4 of the FF, whose number is up. Like I said, 75% of this comic was that one conversation between Jen and Jack. Rowell's not exactly setting a blistering pace here, though that's no surprise.
I wouldn't say Antonio's doing a lot with all the space being afforded from the sparse dialogue. The body language on the characters is good, but the layouts are pretty straightforward and it's not as though the backgrounds are packed with details. It's mostly just two characters sitting on a couch talking. I can't remember whether Jack had the rat tail haircut Antonio gives him in the flashbacks or not. I mostly excised Geoff Johns' Avengers run from my collection. I mostly just remember Jack getting increasingly frustrated as his condition worsened and taking it out on Scott Lang.
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