Well, I hoped to have these books this time last week, but various winter storms gave the postal service some trouble, so they arrived Saturday. I miss when I looked forward to snow for the time off from school and sledding and whatnot, whereas no I dread the snow because I have to drive to work in it.
After a flashback where Val is turned away from a support group for veterans because she's a woman, which may mark the first time she experiences her weird "mind forest" thing, we return to the present. Where Leo's driving with Val unconscious in the back, while Leo listens to Fifty Shades of Grey on audiobook. Thankfully Val wakes up and nearly strangles Leo, prompting an abrupt stop and exit of the car.
Then Val has another episode, and again, Leo can see the "magic jungle" too. Which doesn't seem to bother her, but confuses Val quite a bit, until she rushes off towards a voice she hears calling for help, and nearly gets flattened by a big rig. They stop at a gas station, the bald doofus from issue 1 tries to kill Val in the bathroom (because the bad guys know she's working for the feds, though the feds are now trying to hunt her down, thinking she's gone fugitive on them.)
Val ends up shooting the bald doofus, because Leo has her own flashback to a scene with her dad when she was a teenager, I'm guessing. I'm also guessing, given the wavy voice balloons and the faded colors used for that episode that it's Teen Leo calling for help that Val has somehow been hearing. Like their minds are connected by a subconscious thread via trauma?
Either way, Leo now knows Val was originally sent by the feds to get in close to Miles, so at least there's more honest in the impromptu partnership.
Marc and Tigra's conversation about not hiding the fact her old lover is back from the dead will have to wait, because Drug Guy's henchlady just killed the Midnight Mission with her magic sword. Which means there's nothing to stop the cops from barging in and trying to arrest Moon Knight.
A Moon Knight who is very pissed off you just killed his magic home. Plus an Avenger pissed off her boyfriend's been hiding shit. Plus two vampires. Plus a reformed super-villain (8-Ball qualifies, barely), who probably still enjoys beating cops. Point is, this goes badly for the cops.
Still, they can't fight all the cops; it's not productive, so they run to the place Moon Knight fought and killed a guy in the first issue of the Ellis/Declan Shalvey run, where they're able to hook up the TV to learn the dealing of this new drug has been pinned on them. Dirty cops, you gotta love 'em! That doesn't sound right.
So they're fugitives. Seems to be a pattern with today's selections. Hopefully MacKay will spend some time on how the different members of the cast adjust to that. Feels like it would be more of a problem for Tigra or Badr (I assume this is going to cause issues for his medical practice) than some of the others. Plus, it probably enforces more close contact between some of them than is probably safe (Soldier doesn't seem to like 8-Ball, for example.) There's things to play with there, if MacKay will do it.
Carbone's artwork is less rigid than Cappuccio's. The looseness makes the characters look more rumpled, less put-together or composed than they usually are. Which is a good approach at a point when things are falling apart unexpectedly for them and they've lost the security of their home.
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