Based on the temperatures and humidity, summer's arrived. Great. Now when is it going away? I don't enjoy sweating when I take my mid-morning break walk at work. I'm not setting that brisk a pace.
Ben finds he's not the only one in the 'repaired multiversal-incursion point', as Ogdu ambushed and dumped some future version of Doom in there as well, in some giant ship that looks a bit like a castle. While Doom figures out how to get them clear, Ben has to fend off the worm things using what looks a lot like Orion's Astro-Chair. Which, obviously the New Gods plagiarized from DOOM!
Skroce has some fun with Ben and Doom working together as Doom keeps up a steady stream of ten-dollar word insults and feeds Ben horrible Latverian dishes to fuel his anger (but probably just to fuck with him). Ben continues to be unimpressed by Doom, making cracks about this one being older (as he received a glass of prune juice from a HERBIE with a Doom mask), and calling Doom a little thief hisself for having some Pym Particles that probably just "fell off a truck" somewhere.
That's what was missing from the previous two issues. Skroce didn't spend enough time on Ben interacting with Wolverine or Dr. Strange to show anything about their relationships. They were right into the fighting, or else too tied up in plot stuff for characterization to shine through like it did in the first issue.
Doom finds Ogdu's big ship and his captured Watcher, who got tricked and experimented on by Ogdu. He might be an "Un-Watcher" and have stolen some of Cable's armory, but he still knows how to exposit like a Watcher, telling the other two that Ogdu's been taking powerful items from across realities to create something new that will erase all this superhero jazz and start fresh. And then Ogdu shows up to do just that.
MK's trying to bring in an old foe/friend/something named Morpheus, but keeps finding himself in the dreams of his different aspects. A happy family life in the suburbs with Marlene and Diatrice for Marc. A big party for all Jake's pals. A quiet dinner in a big mansion with Marlene and some other old supporting cast members I don't know for Steven.
I feel like Sabbatini could have tried to distinguish Steven and Marc visually a little more. Granted Steven's in a tie and Marc's grilling in an apron, but shift up the hair, or give them different smiles. They're different people who share the same body, correct? They can probably smile differently.
Gaining no traction there, Morpheus shifts to a vision of a world where the Avengers welcome Moon Knight back, and finally, one where MK can just punch people forever. Marc rejects it all, claiming his happiness is earned, not given.
Would love to see the conversation with Jake and Steven about that unilateral decision later. I imagine they'd agree it wasn't real and they couldn't let Morpheus keep it up, but maybe a bit of consideration for them. No expectation of that, as MacKay has once again largely relegated them to the background. I don't think Steven's gotten an actual line of dialogue so far this year.
Pushing through all this, MK finally reaches his target. Morpheus just wanted to give people what they dreamed of, because he's dying. Because he refused to help the person messing with Moon Knight. He wanted to help people with his powers for once, instead of being selfish or hurting others. It didn't work with Moon Knight, but he can reveal the mastermind, so that's nice.
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