Marc Spector's dead. Again. But with Khonshu locked up in Asgard jail, there's no resurrections. So make that, Marc's Spector's dead. For good. Or 5 months, whichever. So who's the new guy who showed up beating the crap out of former loser villain/current ally 8-Ball?
In this first arc, MacKay would have a different member of the cast talking with Marc's therapist Dr. Sterman in each issue, interspersed with whatever was going on. It's Tigra's turn. She was first to attack "Moon Knight," and got a face full of pepper powder to block her sense of smell, but she's already sure it's not Marc Spector in that suit. Why? We'll get to that.
As the new Moon Knight envelops her in the darkness of the new moon and sucker punches her, and takes down Hunter's Moon with some sickle-bladed axe things, Tigra tells the doc about her past loves. The first, a cop named Bill Nelson. He liked tradition, woman's place at home and all that jazz, and Greer loved him so she went along with it.
He died, she got angry, became a costumed hero called The Cat, and then a were-woman, which she describes as becoming who she wanted to be. I would say this overlooks all the stuff Englehart did about her struggling with her cat half, but all that is best stuffed in the garbage anyway.
Next up, Hank Pym. She describes him as smarter than any man she ever knew, because unlike Richards or Stark, Pym doubted himself. With good reason! But when it was the two of them, Tigra felt like they were moving forward. She could be with Hank and be herself, rather than someone he wanted her to be.
He died. Which brings us to Marc Spector, who Tigra thinks needed her in a different way from Bill or Pym. Marc needed someone who was kind of wild inside, like him. Used to things falling apart and having to put it back together. Marc's a lot more self-destructive than Tigra ever was, but maybe she's done a much better job dealing with the incredible amounts of shit writers heaped on her over the decades.
In the fight, Reese tells "Moon Knight" that if he wants the Midnight Mission, then go on in. Because the Mission belonged to Moon Knight. The Mission does not like the new guy, I think preparing to eat him before the new guy manages to escape.
But the Mission's reaction isn't what tipped Tigra off. No, she says she knew this new guy wasn't Marc because she loved Marc, and that means he wouldn't come back. Nobody she loves comes back. It's a good thing she admitted to Sterman at the start that she was not, in fact, fine, because that is a concerning view to have.
(I'm pretty sure Pym had been revealed to be alive in Al Ewing's Avengers Inc. mini-series by this point, and Marc knew it. But he didn't get around to telling Tigra before getting blown up, so she doesn't know it.)
{12th longbox, 100th comic. Vengeance of the Moon Knight #2, by Jed MacKay (writer), Alessandro Cappuccio (artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (color artist), Cory Petit (letterer)}
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