I was hoping to come away with more than one comic this week, but the store I typically used was closed Friday because the parking lot in the shopping center the store's in was being repaved. So I had to rely on the one that doesn't stock as many titles from smaller publishers. Damn asphalt crews.
This is basically a fight issue. Dr. Badr, the other Fist of Khonshu, thinks the needs to teach Spector a lesson about how to fulfill that role properly. So they fight a bit, Badr seems to win and heads off to kill Reese and Ted, two of the vampires Spector spared in the first issue. Apparently, Khonshu doesn't like vampires because they kill people at night, during Khonshu's time. I mean, a lot of people kill people at night. Does that mean Khonshu doesn't like Blade, or the Punisher? Is Deadpool OK if he shoots people in broad daylight?
Anyway, Badr loses, but Spector lets him live. There's two main takeaways from this issue. One, Badr wasn't involved in what happened last issue. Which we already knew, but assuming Spector believes him, means Spector can know there's someone else out there gunning for him. Two, apparently all the other Fists of Khonshu, including Badr, got the memories of all the past Fists placed in their minds to teach them to fight a certain way. Spector's the exception.
Badr takes this as yet another sign Spector is a broken instrument he needs to set right, and Spector jokes that it must have been too crowded in his head already, but I wonder if Khonshu took a different approach. Maybe having all his Fists operate the same way was unsatisfactory. I don't know what process Khonshu uses to select them, but Badr is a doctor, and I assume was one before this. All he knows of fighting is what was placed within him. Spector was a fighter and killer by trade already. Maybe Khonshu wanted to see what happened if he just gave someone like that his blessing and left them to the work.
The fight's not bad, although, until the bit at the end with the bat, I don't really see what Badr is saying about the difference in how the two of them fight. He compares Spector's style to an animal, lacking the beauty he should have from all those past Moon Knights, but I didn't see anything particularly graceful in how Badr fights. They both like to lunge and throw a big haymaker. Moon Knight does uses his grappel thing to hit Badr in the face, but also does a leaping kick in the chest with both feet, which seems kind of fancy. Badr's the one who decides to leap off a roof and tackle Spector while he's dangling from a fire escape, sending them both crashing to the alley. Could be more proof Badr's not as hip to Khonshu's plans as he thinks.
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