Sure hope I'm having fun on this vacation. If not, it's going to be all the worse going back to work and all those e-mails. In the meantime, here's Moon Knight!
Moon Knight is busy getting his ass kicked by the two new villains from last issue. Much better intro for them, even if I'm still largely unclear on their abilities. Nemean seems very tough, kind of a brawler, while Grand Mal is either one of those pressure point focused fighters, or she has a paralytic touch thing going. Not helping Moonie's case is Marc's busy having an internal conversation with Steven Grant and Jake Lockely. Steven's sitting in a high-rise office, in a suit. Jake's in a strip club, sporting a horrible looking mustache. Is he a porno star pretending to be a cabbie?
Marc is busy insisting he can't appear crazy to everyone else, and so the other two have to stay locked away inside their head. Steven and Jake, I guess accurately, point out that all the stuff that makes people say Moon Knight is crazy is stuff Marc did.
Just as an aside, Marc says the Punisher calls him crazy. Who gives a fuck? That's like Deadpool questioning someone's mental health, or Tony Stark questioning someone's judgment. Stones, glass houses, all that shit? Besides, if Frank is calling him crazy, it's probably for the same reason he calls Spider-Man and Daredevil crazy. That their notion criminals shouldn't be executed on sight is stupid and naive. He probably think Marc should stop cutting people's faces off and just slit their throats.
Digression over. Steven and Jake keep pushing, Marc keeps making excuses,and keeps losing the fight. Finally, about the time Tigra and Hunter's Moon show up to save his butt, he admits he likes having Reese around as a friend who is normal, and that he does need people. Progress, I guess.
For the conversation, Marc's wearing the mask throughout. I thought maybe he's take it off during his confessional at the end, but I guess he's not at that point. Cappuccio arranges the pages and the players in different ways. They're always in their own panels, but sometimes the page is arranged so Marc and one of the two are facing off in consecutive panels. And it alternates, the two of them stepping in to support each other. Steven points out Marc is the one who fucks up his own life, Marc yells at him. Steven yells back, then it switches to a panel of Jake cutting in. Then the next two panels are Jake and Marc arguing. Other times, it's presented so that Steven and Jake are on top of Marc, the weight of their arguments pressing down. Also, it seems like the view closes in on Marc as the issue goes along. he's losing this distance he's trying to put up.
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