What I Bought 3/7/2025

OK, with books from previous months dispensed with, we move on to March comics. Well, one March comic at least. This month is one of those odd distributions. 2 books the first week, 5 the second, none this week, 3 the last week.

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #6, by Jed MacKay (writer), Domenico Carbone (artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (color artist), Cory Petit (letterer) - Feel like Khonshu is warning Marc that he's not ready to handle everything Tigra's got in store for him. "Beware, my son, that backside is one moon I have no power over!"

Pretty basic set-up. Marc's more or less in a coma after getting his ass beat, and getting berated by Khonshu for acting like such a chump. Fairchild's smart enough to realize killing Moon Knight just means you've soon got a resurrected, even crazier Moon Knight on your ass, so he plans to keep M.K. under wraps like this for the foreseeable future.

Good thing Hunter's Moon can ask Khonshu - politely - where Marc is, so they can rescue him. Or Tigra can ask the same question, impolitely. Either way, Moon Knight's crew ambushes the vehicle carrying him, Fairchild's enforcer convinces him this is not the time to fight an entire team, and after some time in a good ol' Consecrated Sarcophagus, Marc's up on his feet, and ready to actually make a plan to attack Fairchild. I don't know, are plans allowed? Much better to charge in recklessly.

With Carbone's art, Marc looks kind of like some teen manga protagonist. Much younger than the other artists MacKay's worked with depict him (and much younger than Tigra, which at least sort of tracks with Marc somewhat admitting he's been acting like a dope.) I also don't remember Marc's hair poofing up that much in the front, either. Oh man, Fairchild must have beat him so badly he switched genres - and cultures - entirely.

Or maybe this is Into the Moon-Verse and we've swapped Moon Knights? Khonshu was griping about how if Marc would just die enough he was too crazy to use, Khonshu could get himself another one. Honestly, Khonshu's a real shit, always playing his kids against each other, withholding approval and affection in exchange for them jumping through his hoops. What a shitty god.