I spent last Monday at the property where I was doing dirtwork last month. Turns out, trying to move 16 tons of rock from a field to a big erosion cut, one 5-gallon bucket at a time, is a bad idea. My dad says I have a tendency to get locked into doing things a particular way, and just trying to brute force it to success. He's right, but I barely qualified as ambulatory the next two days. So at least I suffer for my hubris, even if I learn nothing.
Everyone is smashing away at the Mansion Ravenous, but none of it is vital damage. Clea senses something and marks the fault line in a page where Pramanik shapes each panel so they're increasingly pointed down, culminating in the panel where Marc hits the spot and breaks through to the "cornerstone" as he puts it. What Blade would call the "heart".
Pramanik and Rosenberg depict it as an immense pillar, black, shaded red around the edges. A mouth with ragged teeth barely visible and some glowing red eye in the center. We'll see what comes, but right now, it'd be a strong choice for the inevitable Splash Page entry on this series.
Despite Marc's best efforts, he's not having much success breaking it down, but Achilles Fairchild was freed by Clea's spell, and got a special glowy hammer, too. The two of them got to work like John Henry making a railroad tunnel, and the panel borders start to disintegrate. Fairchild tells Moon Knight to leave, he'll finish things. Because he knows he's dead either way, so he can kill an interdimensional predator, or get killed painfully by a pissed off Moon Knight. (Also, in the panel where he strikes the killing blow, his shadow is done up to look like Thor.)
Also, he's more concerned why he was abducted to be pumped for information about Frenchie. I had completely forgotten that was where this volume began. MacKay's been on this Mansion Ravenous thing for six months now.
The Golem, named Olivine, is roaming frozen wastes looking for D'Orc. D'Orc sent the chicken off to see if he could find anything, but ends up captured by a necromancer. Didn't put up much of a fight. In this fictional world, studying necromancy actually makes you crazy. The longer you study, the crazier you get, and this guy, Count Daverus, has been at it for two lifetimes.
He asks D'Orc if he'd like to have a team-up. Soon his army of reanimated, mosaic corpses, will be ready to destroy everyone! D'Orc declines, after insulting Daverus for not having nipples and smelling badly. We've seen D'Orc nearly drowned in a bog and swallowed by a giant 3-headed pug, and he's been wearing the same outfit the entire time. Maybe he shouldn't be accusing others of being smelly, especially considering how often he bemoans being on his own.
Anyway, the Golem was already captured, on purpose. As part of a plan with Chicken. And so, D'Orc agrees to work with her to defeat Daverus. Oh, so you'll have team-ups with the lady made out of stone? I see how it is. As the Fresh Prince put it, another brother that just couldn't control his head. The other one. No, the other, other one. The ghost chicken one.
That's pretty much it. There's a lot of jibber-jabber that doesn't accomplish much. A flashback to how Olivine and Chicken made their plan - which involved Chicken's headless body being shoved inside one of the shuffling, reanimated corpses - but not much else. I do question that a reanimated corpse could get a stomachache from eating chicken that's still sort of alive, but decomposing. I shouldn't question it, because that way lies madness, but that's never stopped my brain before.
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