I think I'm going to be lazy this weekend. It won't be easy, but if I dedicate myself fully to the task, I think I can pull it off.
While Kamala fits the Stark Sentinel and protects Typical Marvel Morons from falling rubble, Bruno tries to get a few of the kids to help him to rig Michelle's plasma generator into a sort of fusion reactor that, when placed on the unibeam spot on the Sentinel, does. . .something that blows up the Sentinel. The battle also revealed the ORCHIS lab, and Kamala and the other students save the people trapped there. Then Kamala has to run because more Sentinels are showing up.
Aftermath: Kamala gets a repaired costumed that's still more X-person than Ms. Marvel, but she got the golden wrist thing she always wore back, at least. The ORCHIS scientist with the bots is now a former ORCHIS scientist in hiding, compiling info on Ms. Marvel for some future purpose. Because, as Emma Frost tells Kamala, while her movie synergy energy powers didn't manifest, there is now the possibility they will in the future. Maybe.
Oh, and Kitty Pryde won't high-five Kamala, because it is a character trait of hers to be on unfriendly terms with all the other teen girls Logan befriended at one point or the other. Though I don't get that expression she's making in the last panel. Like she's confused watching Kamala's hand pass through her, or thinks this is really awkward. What did she think was going to happen?
I'm surprised Vellani and Pirzada didn't bust out the movie powers, but not disappointed. It felt like a classic adventure for Kamala Khan: Save some people with size-changing and stretching powers, plus some science back-up from her friend. Choose to help a downed enemy rather than destroy them, even if it'll make her life harder. Go home to dinner with her family.
Granted that G. Willow Wilson did a few stories where Kamala's powers evolved or changed, so a mutation going active wouldn't have been out of place, but saving that for later, and letting this story focus on the character finding her footing after being alive is a nice touch. It reaffirms the essential core of the character, regardless of whatever new stuff they bolt onto her.
Moon Knight fights Black Spectre and eventually beats him, revealing it to be the 2nd Black Spectre, who it can't be because he was in jail. Which is when the actual Black Spectre behind everything shoots Marc a bunch of times. Well, trusting Moon Knight to barge into a fight and stop watching his six is smart planning, at least.
Hunter's Moon found out how to stop the "use sound to kill everyone plan", and Soldier defused the mine Tigra's sitting on, and argues she's the only one who would have noticed it, so that kept Moon Knight from getting blown up. Great. Either way, none of them can reach Moon Knight because the real guy blew out the floors below.
In the most amusing development, Zodiac wearing a gold necklace with his name had a purpose beyond identifying him as a self-involved tool. It's his version of a cross, to defend himself against Reese. Because he's the only thing he has faith in. This does not, however, save him from the stupidity of going into the Midnight Mission after Reese, what with the mission being a sentient (and hungry) building. So hopefully that's the last we see of him.
The Black Spectre is revealed on the last page to be Plesko, Marc's psychiatrist friend we saw in one issue interviewing Zodiac. Then he was supposedly blown up (off-panel, which was really obviously significant) in the next issue. I figured something was up with that, which makes me 14 for 726 for accurate predictions on this blog.
I don't know what his reason would be for doing this. I could see him feeling like he needs to help Marc by destroying Moon Knight, but he acts as though he never intended for Moon Knight to be involved. That it was a mistake to pose as Black Spectre, because he knew it would bring Moon Knight after him. Which means he really wants to kill everyone in New York, which seems like an odd turn. But with Marc being shot up, I suppose Plesko will have lots of chances to monologue in the finale.
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