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Literature

Age of Fire - E. E. Knight

Adventure Lit their Star - Kenneth Allsop

Alien in a Small Town - Jim Cleaveland

Alien Chronicles (Literature) - Deborah Chester

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Animorphs - K. A. Applegate

Am an Owl - Martin Hocke

At Winters End - Robert Silverberg

Avonoa - H.R.B. Collotzi

Astrid and Cerulean: A Parrot Fantasy - Parasol Marshall-Crowley

A Wolf for a Spell - Karah Sutton

The African Painted Wolf Novels - Alexander Kendziorski

The Alchemist's Cat - Robin Jarvis

The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents - Terry Pratchet

The Amity Incident - C. M. Weller

The Ancient Solitary Reign - Martin Hocke

The Animals of Farthing Wood series - Colin Dann

The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein

The Author of Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of Therolinguistics - Ursula K. Le Guin

A Magical Cat Named Kayla: Whiskers of Enchantment -Carlos Juárez [AI Cover]*

Bambi: A life in the forest & Bambi Children - Felix Salten

Bamboo Kingdom series - Erin Hunter

Bazil Broketail - Christopher Rowley

Beak of the Moon & Dark of the Moon - Philip Temple

Bears of the Ice series - Kathryn Lasky

Beasts of New York - Jon Evans

Beautiful Joe - Margaret Marshall Saunders

Beyond Acacia Ridge - Amy Clare Fontaine

Birddom - Clive Woodall

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Blitzcat - Robert Westall

Blizzard Winds - Paul Koch

Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells

Bravelands series- Erin Hunter

Broken Fang - Rutherford Montgomery

Bunnicula series - Deborah Howe & James Howe

Burning Stars - Rurik Redwolf

A Black Fox Running - Brian Carter

A Blue So Loud - Tuesday

The Ballard of The Belstone Fox - David Rook

The Bear - James Curwood

The Bees - Laline Paull

The Biography of a Silver Fox - Ernest Thompson Seton

The Blue Cat of Castle Town - Catherine Cate Coblentz

The Book Of Chameleons - José Eduardo Agualusa

The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin Jr.

The Book of Night with Moon - Diane Duane

The Books of the Named series - Clare Bell

The Bug Wars - Robert Asprin

Call of the wild - Jack London

Callanish - William Horwood

Catwings - Ursula K. Le Guin

Cat Diaries: Secret Writings of the MEOW Society - Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey & Laurie Myers

Cat House - Michael Peak

Cat Pack - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Cats in the city of Plague - A.L Marlow

Celestial Heir series - Chester Young

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

Chet and Bernie mysteries - Spencer Quinn

Chia The Wildcat - Joyce stranger

Child of the Wolves - Elizabeth Hall

Clarice the Brave - Lisa McMann

Coyote's Wild Home - Barbara Kingsolver; Lily Kingsolver & Paul Mirocha

Crocuta - Katelyn Rushe

Cujo - Steven King

The Calatians Series - Tim Susman

The Cats of Roxville station - Jean Craighead Georde

The Chanur Novels - C. J. Cherryh

The Cold Moons - Aeron Clement

The Color of Distance || Through Alien Eyes - Amy Thomson

The Conquerors - Timothy Zahn

The Council of Cats - R. J. F.

The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden

The Crimson Torch - Angela Holder

The Crossbreed - Allan Eckert

The Crucible of Time - John Brunner

Darkeye series - Lydia West

Deadlands: The Hunted - Skye Melki-Wegner

Demon of Undoing - Andrea I. Alton

Desert Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Dinotopia - James Gurney, Alan Dean Foster

Doglands - Tim Willocks

Dimwood Forest series - Avi

A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray - Ann M. Martin

Dogs of the Drowned City - Dayna Lorentz

A Dog's Purpose series - W. Bruce Cameron

Dolphin Way: Rise of the Guardians - Mark Caney

Domino - Kia Heavey

DragonFire series - Lewis Jones Davies

Dragon Fires Rising - Marc Secchia

Dragon Hoard and Other Tales of Faerie - Cathleen Townsend

Dragons and Skylines series - Rowan Silver

Dragon Prayers - M.J. McPike

Dragons of Mother Stone series - Melissa McShane

The Deptford Mice series - Robin Jarvis

The Dogs of the Spires series - Ethan Summers

The Dragons of Solunas series - H. Leighton Dickson

The Duncton Chronicles - William Horwood

The Destiny of Dragons - J.F.R. Coates

The Diary Of A House Cat - Ileana Dorobantu

Die Wilden Hunde Von Pompeii - Helmut Krausser (DE)

Dogtown - Katherine Applegate & Gennifer Choldenko

The Eyes and the Impossible - Dave Eggers

Eclosión - Arturo Balseiro (ES)

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl

Faithful Ruslan - Georgi Vladimov

Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles - Clem Martini

Feathers & Flames series - John Bailey

Felidae series (1) - Akif Pirinçci

Fifteen Rabbits - Felix Salten

Fire, Bed & Bone - Henrietta Branford

Fire of the Phoenix - Azariah Jade

Fluke - James Herbert

Firefall series - Peter Watts

Firebringer - David Clement-Davies

Flush: A Biography Book - Virginia Woolf

Fox - Glyn Frewer

Foxcraft series - Inbali Iserles

Frightful’s Mountain - Jeanie Craighead George

Frost dancers: A story of hares - Garry Kilworth

The Familiars series - Adam Jay Epstein

The Fifth - Saylor Ferguson

The Firebringer series - Meredith Ann Pierce

The Fox and The Hound - Daniel P. Mannix

(1) Felidae's Author - Akif Pirinçci - is known to be a Xenophobic, Anti-muslim, Anti-Lgbt and Extreme Right-Wing guy (A N4zi by his on words). Won't be going onto details just know he has a non-fiction work called "Germany Gone Mad: The Crazy Cult around Women, Homosexuals and Immigrants." His works has been out of print ever since.

Guardian Cats and the lost books of Alexandria - Rahma Krambo

Guardians of Ga'Hoole series - Kathryn Lasky

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Griffin Quest - Sophie Torro

Gryphon Insurrection series - K. Vale Nagle

The Ghost and It's Shadow - Shaun Hick

The Golden Eagle - Robert Murphy

The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker

The Good Dog - Newbery Medalist

The Guardian Herd series - Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

The Goodbye Cat - Hiro Arikawa

Haunt Fox - Jim Kjelgaard

Haven: A Small Cat's Big Adventure - Megan Wagner Lloyd

Heavenly Horse series - Mary Stanton

Hive - Ischade Bradean

Horses of Dawn series - Kathryn Lasky

House of Tribes - Garry Kilworth

Hunter's Moon/Foxes of First dark - Garry Kilworth

Hunters Universe series - Abigail Hilton

A Hare at Dark Hollow - Joyce Stranger

The Hundred and One Dalmatians & The Starlight Barking - Dodie Smith

The Hunt for Elsewhere - Beatrice Vine

Hollow Kingdom Duology - Kira Jane Buxton

I am a Cat - Natsume Sōseki

I, Scheherezade: Memoirs of a Siamese Cat - Douglass Parhirst

In the Long Dark - Brian Carter

The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford

Joe Grey series - Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach & Russell Munson

Julie of the Wolves - Jeanie Craighead George

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en

Kävik the Wolf Dog - Walt Morey

Kazan duology - James Curwood

Kine - Alan Lloyd

Kona's Song - Louise Searl

The Killers - Daniel P. Mannix

Kindred of the Wild - Charles G.D Roberts

Lassie Come-Home - Eric Knight

Last of the Curlews - Fred Bodsworth

Lazy Scales - D.M. Gilmore

Legends of Blood series - Ethan Summers

A Legend of Wolf Song - George Stone

Luna the Lone Wolf - Forest Wells

Lupus Rex - John Carter Cash

Lutapolii: White Dragon of the South - Deryn Pittar

The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

The Labrador Pact & The Last Family in England - Matt Haig

The Last Dogs - Christopher Holt

The Last Eagle - Daniel P. Mannix

The Last Great Auk - Allan Eckert

The Last Monster on Earth - L.J. Davies

The Life Story of a Fox - J. C. Tregarthen

The Lost Rainforest series - Eliot Schrefer & Emilia Dziubak

The Lost Domain - Martin Hocke

The Last Whales: A Novel - Lloyd Abbey

Mammoth Trilogy - Stephen Baxter

Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear - Paul Gallico

Marney the Fox - Scott Goodall & John Stokes

Mattie: The story of a hedgehog - Norman Adams, & G.D. Griffiths

Matriarch: Elephant vs. T-Rex - Roz Gibson

Migon - P.C. Keeler

Monkey Wars - Richard Kurti

The Mistmantle chronicles - M.I. McAllister

The Mountain Lion - Robert Murphy

The Mouse Butcher - Dick King-Smith

The Mouse Protectors Series - Olly Barrett

New Springtime series - Robert Silverberg

Nightshade Chronicles - Hilary Wagner

Old One-Toe - Michel-Aimé Baudouy

Of Birds and Branches - Frances Pauli

Outlaw Red - Jim Kjelgaard

The Old Stag - Henry Williamson

The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate

Painted Flowers - Caitlin Grizzle

Pax & Pax: Journey Home - Sara Pennypacker

Petrichor - C.E. Wright

The Plague Dogs - Richard Adams

The Pit - Elaine Ramsay

Pride Wars - Matt Laney

A Pup Called Trouble - Bobbie Pyron

The Peregryne Falcon - Robert Murphy

Pork and Others - Cris Freddi

Queen in the Mud - Maari

Quill and Claw series - Kathryn Brown

Rak: The story of an Urban Fox - Jonathon Guy

Rats of Nimh series - Robert C. O'Brien

Raven Quest - Sharon Stewart

Raptor Red - Robert T. Bakker

Red Fox - Charles G. D. Roberts

Redwall series - Brian Jacques

Rose in a Storm - Jon Katz

Rufus - Rutherford Montgomery

Run With the Wind series - Tom McCaughren

Runt - Marion Dane Baeur

Rustle in the Grass - Robin Hawdon

Rusty - Joyce Stranger

The Remembered War series - Robert Vane

The Rescuers series - Margery Sharp

The Red Stranger - David Stephen

The River Singers & The Rising - Tom Moorhouse

The Road Not Taken - Harry Turtledove,

The Running Foxes - Joyce Stranger

Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson

Scaleshifter series - Shelby Hailstone Law

Scream of the White Bears - David Clement-Davies

Seekers saga - Erin Hunter

Serpentia Series - Frances Pauli

Shadows in the Sky - Pete Cross

Shark Wars Series - EJ Altbacker

Silverwing series - Kenneth Oppel

Silver Brumby series - Elyne Mitchell

Sirius - Olaf Stapledon

Solo's Journey - Joy Aiken Smith

Sky Hawk - Gill Lewis

Snow Dog - Jim Kjelgaard

Song of the River - Soinbhe Lally

Spirit of the West series - Kathleen Duey

Survivors series - Erin Hunter

Stray - A.N Wilson

String Lug the Fox - David Stephen

Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas - Rhonda Parrish & Co.

Swordbird series - Nancy Yi Fan

The Sheep-Pig - Dick King-Smith

The Sight & Fell - David Clement-Davies

The Silent Sky - Allan Eckert

The Silver Claw - Garry Kilworth

The Stoner Eagles - William Horwood

The Stink Files - Jennifer L. Holm & Jonathan Hamel

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

The Story Of A Seagull And The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a dog called Leal - Luis Sepúlveda

The Story of a Red Deer - John Fortescue

The Summer King Chronicles - Jess E. Owen

Schogul, Rächer der Tiere - Birgit Laqua (DE)

Tailchaser's Song - Tad Williams

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Three Bags Full - Leonnie Swann

Thy Servant a Dog - Rudyard Kipling

Tomorrow's Sphinx - Clare Bell

Torn Ear - Geoffrey Malone

Thor - Wayne Smith

Trickster - Tom Moorhouse

Two Dogs and a Horse - Jim Kjelgaard

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa

The Trilogy of the Ants - Bernard Werber

The Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White

The Tusk That Did the Damage - Tania James

The Tygrine cat - Inbali Iserles

Ultimate Dragon Saga - Graham Edwards

Under the Skin - Michel Faber

Varjak Paw duology - S.F Said

Vainqueur the Dragon series - Maxime J. Durand

War Bunny series - Christopher St. Jhon

War Horse - Michael Morpurgo

War Queen - Illthylian

Warrior Cats series - Erin Hunter

Watership Down/Tales of Watership Down - Richard Adams

Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long

Welkin Weasels series - Garry Kilworth

West of Eden - Harry Harrison

Whalesong Trilogy - Robert Siegel

Whale - Jeremy Lucas

Whispers in the Forest - Barbara Coultry

White Wolf - Henrietta Branford

White Fang - Jack London

Wild Lone - Denys Watkins-Pitchford

Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton

Wings of Fire series - Tui T. Sutherland

Winterset Hollow - Jonathan Edward Durham

Wolf: The Journey Home | Hungry for Home: A Wolf Odyssey - Asta Bowen

Wolf Brother series - Michelle Paver

Wolf Chronicles - Dorothy Hearst

Wolves of the Beyond series - Kathryn Lasky

Woodstock Saga - Michael Tod

A Whale of the Wild - Rosanne Parry

A Wolf Called Wander - Rosanne Parry

The Waters of Nyra - Kelly Michelle Baker

The Wolves of Elementa series - Sophie Torro

The Wolves of Time - William Horwood

The Wolf Chronicles Series - Teng Rong

The Way of Kings - Louise Searl

The White Bone - Barbara Gowdy

The White Fox/Singing Tree - Brian Parvin

The White Puma - Ronald Lawrence

The Wild Road & The Golden Cat - Gabriel King

The Wildings & The Thousand names of darkness - Nilanjana Roy

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

The Wind Protect You - Pat Murphy

The Wolves of Paris - Daniel P. Mannix

Yellow eyes - Rutherford Montgomery

The Year Of The Dinosaur - Edwin H. Colbert

Zones of Thought series - Vernor Vinge

Z-Verse series by R.H

Comic Books/Graphic Novels

Animosity - Marguerite Bennett

Age of Reptiles - Ricardo Delgado

Legend - Samuel Sattin Koehler

Mouse Guard - David Petersen

Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan & Niko Henrichon

Rover Red Charlie - Garth Ennis & Michael Dipascale

Stray Dogs - Tony Fleecs & Trish Forstner

We3 - Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

Beasts of Burden - Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson

LOBO: Canine Crusader of the Metal Wasteland - Macs-World-Ent

The Sandman: Dream of a Thousand Cats - Neil Gaiman

Animal Castle - Xavier Dorison & Felix Delep

Blacksad Series - Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Scurry - Mac Smith

The Snowcat Prince - Dina Norlund

Rankless - Maggie Lightheart

Picture Books

Steve the Dung Beetle: On a Roll - Susan R. Stoltz & Melissa Bailey

Hot Dog - Doug Salati

The Rock from the Sky - Jon Klassen

Whoever Heard of a Flying Bird? - David Cunliffe & Ivan Barrera

A Cat Named Whiskers - Shana Gorian

Ocean Tales Children's Books Series - Sarah Cullen & Zuzana Sbodová

Jake the Growling Dog - Samantha Shannon

Webcomics

Africa - Arven92

After Honour - genstaelens

Awka - Nothofagus-obliqua

Arax - Azany

Amarith - Eredhys

The Apple's Echo - Helianthanas

Alone - Magpeyes

The Blackblood Alliance - KayFedewa

The Betrothed - Kibisca

Black Tyrant - Zapp-BEAST

Blue - HunterBeingHunted

Beast Tags - TheRoomPet

Spy - Utahraptor93

Be Reflected in my Eyes - Aquene-lupetta

Carry your voice - TacoBella

Caelum Sky - ALRadeck

Crescent Wing - Mikaley

Crescent Moonlight - AnimalCrispy

City of Trees - SanjanaIndica

Corpse - doeprince/ratt

Darbi - Sherard Jackson

The Devils Demons - Therbis

Doe of Deadwood - Songdogx

Dyten - Therbis

Desperation - PracticelImagination

Equus Siderae - Dalgeor

Empyrean - Leonine-Skies

Enchantment - FeralWolf1234

Fox Fires - Pipilia

Forget me Not - Nitteh

Fjeld - Dachiia

Felinia - Rainy-bleu

Golden Shrike - doeprince/ratt

Ghost of the Gulag - David Derrick Jr.

Horse Age - BUGHS-22

Hiraeth - AFlameThatNeverDies

Half-Blood - majkaria

Horns of Light - ThatMoonySky

I Hope So - Detective Calico

The Ivory Walk - TacoBella

I'm not Ready - Wolfkingdom372

Jet and Harley - doeprince

Kestrel Island - Silverphoenix

Kin - Fienduredraws

KuroMonody - IrisBdz

Krystal - Nitteh

The King of Eyes - CloverTailedFox09

Legend of Murk - Azany

LouptaOmbra - Loupta Ombra (OngakuK, MlleNugget & joeypony)

Leopards bring rain - Kyriuar

Mazes of Filth - petitecanine

Minimal All You Are - mike-princeofstars

Nine Riders - SpiriMuse

No Man's Land - TacoBella

Never seen the Day - R3dk3y

Norra - shadowmirku

Obsidian Fire - SolinaBright

Oren's Forge - teagangavet

Off-White - Akreon

Out Of Time - IndiWolf

Rabbit on the Moon - Songdogx & Nitteh

The Rabbit Hole - Detrah

RunningWolf Mirari - Mirella Menciassi

Raptor - ElenPanter

Redriver - FireTheWolf777

Repeat - Songdogx

Scurry - Mac Smith

Simbol - Zoba22

Spirit Lock - Animal Crispy

The Sylcoe - Denece-the-sylcoe

Sunder - Aurosoul

Tainted Hearts - Therbis

Taxicat - owlburrow

That's Freedom Guyra - Nothofagus-obliqua

Three Corners: A Kitten's Story - Lara Frizzell

Tofauti Sawa - TheCynicalHound

Two of a Kind - ProjectNao

To Catch a Star - SleepySundae

Under the Ash Tree - ChevreLune

Uninvited - Nothofagus-obliqua

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

What Lurks Beneath - ArualMeow

Water Wolves - LuckyStarhun

Wild Wolves - Lombarsi

White Tail - SleepySundae

What's your damage? - FrostedCanid

The Wolves of Chena - Yamis-Art

Waves Always Crash - Hellhunde

The Whale's Heart - Possumteeeth [Warriors Fancomic]

Manga

A Centaur's Life - Murayama Kei

Beastars - Paru Itagaki

Chi's Sweet Home - Kanata Konami

Ginga Series [Silverfang] - Yoshihiro Takahashi

Gon - Masashi Tanaka

Houseki no Kuni | Land of the Lustrous - Haruko Ichikawa

Inugami-Kai - Masaya Hokazono

The Jungle Emperor - Osamu Tezuka

My roommate is a cat - Minatsuki & Asu Futatsuya

Crimsons – The Scarlet Navigators of the Ocean - Kanno Takanori

Rooster Fighter - Shū Sakuratani

Simoun - Shō Aikawa

The Fox & Little Tanuki - Mi Tagawa

Yuria 100 Shiki - Nobuto Hagio

Massugu ni Ikou - Kira

Cat Soup

The Amazing 3

Cat + Gamer - Wataru Nadatani

Animated Series

101 Dalmatians: The series & 101 Dalmatian Street

A Polar Bear in Love

Baja no Studio

Bagi: Monster of Mighty Nature

Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel

Bluey

Centaurworld (2021)

Chirin's Bell

Chironup no Kitsune

Dokkun Dokkun

Gamba no Bouken

Hazbin Hotel

Invader ZIM

Inu to Neko Docchi mo Katteru to Mainichi Tanoshii

King Fang

Koisuru Shirokuma

Kemushi no Boro

Kewang Lantian

Konglong Baobei: Shiluo De Wenming

Little Polar Bear

Manxmouse's Great Activity

Mitsubachi Maya no Bouken

Mikan Enikki

Massugu ni Ikou -

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Mikan Enikki

Ore, Tsushima

Okashi na Sabaku no Suna to Manu

Primal

Polar Bear Cafe

Robotboy (2005)

Seton Doubutsuki: Risu no Banner

Simoun

The Amazing 3

Tottoko Hamtarou

The Adventure of Qiqi and Keke

Tama & Friends: Third Street Story

Watership Down (2018) & Watership Down (1999)

What's Michael?

Wolf's Rain

Wonder Pets

Live-Action/Hybrid show

Fantasy High

A Crown of Candy

Burrow's End

Good Omens

Webseries

Dinosauria - Dead Sound

My Pride - tribbleofdoom

Whitefall - Chylk

The Stolen Hope - Galemtido

Dragon's Blood - FluffyGinger

Helluva Boss -

Murder Drones -

Short Films

Alone a wolf's winter

Baja's Studio

Beautiful Name

Burrow

Cat Piano

Cat Soup

Chicken Little

Far From the Tree

Ferdinand the Bull

Frypan Jiisan

Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji

Gaitou to Neko

Hao Mao Mimi

Houzi Dian Bianpao

Je T'aime

Kitbull

Lava

Lambert the sheepish lion

Laoshu Jia Nu

Mahoutsukai no Melody

Monmon the Water Spider

Mushroom - Nakagawa Sawako

Of Mice and Clockworks

Osaru no Tairyou

Piper

Robin Robin

Rusuban

Sauria - Dead Sound

Smash and Grab

Street of Crocodiles

She and Her Cat

Space Neko Theater

Shiroi Zou | White Elephant

Shi | Food

Sugar, With a Story

Straw-saurus NEO

The Chair

The Blue Umbrella

The Shell Shocked Egg

The Dog Door

The Dog In The Alley

That's Why They Were Made

Ushigaeru

With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun

Zhui Shu

Animated Films

101 Dalmatians duology

A Monkey's Tale (1999)

All Dogs go to Heaven

The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin

Alpha and Omega saga

An American Tail

The Aristocats

Antz

Animals United

Annabelle's Wish (1997)

Alakazam the great (1960)

Back Outback

Balto

Bambi / Bambi II

Bolt

Brother Bear / Brother Bear II

A Bug's Life

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

Bee Movie

The Brave Little Toaster

Birds of a Feather

Back to the Forest

Cars

Chance

Chicken Run

Dinosaur

Speckles: The Tarbosaurus || Dino King: Journey to Fire Mountain

Dumbo

DC League of Super-Pets

Elemental

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Fantastic Planet

Felidae

The Fox and the Hound

Finding Nemo/Finding Dory

Free Birds

The Fearless Four

The Good Dinosaur

Ghost in the Shell

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Happy Feet/Happy Feet Two

Help! I'm a Fish

Home on the Range

Hoero! Bun Bun Movie

Hokkyoku no Muushika Miishika

Ice Age Franchise

Isle of Dogs

I Am T-Rex

Jungledyret Hugo

Koati

The King of Tibetan Antelope

Kuma no Gakkou trilogy

Lady and the Tramp

The Land Before time Franchise

The Last Unicorn

Leafy, A Hen in the wild

Little Big Panda

The Lion King Franchise

Lucky and Zorba

Lilo & Stitch

Luca

Last Day of the Dinosaurs

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marona's Fantastic Tale

Millionaire Dogs

My Friend Tyranno

Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants || Minuscule - Mandibles from Far Away

Mouse and His Child

Nezumi Monogatari: George to Gerald no Bouken

Oliver & Company

One Stormy Night

Over the Edge

Padak

The Plague Dogs

Pompoko

Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro

Pipi Tobenai Hotaru

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure

Rango

Ratatouille

Raven the Little Rascal

Reynard the Fox (1989)

Rio

Robots

Rock a Doodle

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998)

The Rabbi’s Cat

Samson and Sally

Sahara

The Secret of Nihm

The Secret Life of Pets/The Secret Life of Pets II

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Sheep & Wolves

The Seventh Brother

A Stork's Journey

Stowaways on the Ark

A Turtle's Tale

The One and Only Ivan

Toy Story

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987)

The Trumpet of the Swan

The Enchanted Journey

Unico

Underdog

Vuk the Little Fox

WALL·E

Watership Down (1978)

White Fang

Wizards

The Wild

Wolf Children

Wolfwalkers

You Are Umasou

Zootopia

Live Action/CGI Assisted Movies

Au Hasard Balthazar

Beverly Hills Chihuahua franchise

Cats & Dogs franchise

Charlotte's Web

Fluke (1995) - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Homeward Bound duology (1963 & 1996) - Disney

The Legend of Lobo (1962) - Disney

Strays (2023) - Universal Pictures

Pride (2024) - BBC

101 Dalmatians duology (1996 & 2000)

Documentary

March of the Penguins

Meerkat Manor

Lemur Street

Gangs of Lemur Island

Orangutan Island

Prairie Dog Dynasty

Chimp Empire

Monkey Thieves

Monkey Kingdom

Theather

Cats

Videogames

Animalia Survival - High Brazil Studio

Cattails - Falcon Development

Endling: Extinction is Forever

Gibbon: Beyond the trees - Broken Rules

The Lonesome Fog - Might and Delight

Meadow - Might and Delight

Niche - Stray Fawn Studio

Shelter / Shelter 2/ Shelter 3 - Might and Delight

Paws - Might and Delight

Stray - BlueTwelve Studio

The WILDS - Gluten Free Games

Wolf Quest - eduweb

Golden Treasure: The Great Green - Dreaming Door Studios

Spirit of the North - Infuse Studio

Ōkami - Clover Studio

Rain World - Videocult

Feather - Samurai Punk

Eagle Flight - Ubisoft Montreal Studio

Copoka - Inaccurate Interactive

Untitled Goose Game - House House

PaRappa - NanaOn-Sha

Night in the Woods - Infinite Fall & Secret Lab

Monster Prom - Beautiful Glitch

Them's Fightin' Herds - Mane6

Toontown

E.V.O.: Search for Eden - Givro Corporation

(Pretty much most of Might and Delight games)

Online Browser Games

Lioden

Wolvden

Flight Rising

Lorwolf

Table Top Games

Bunnies & Burrows

Chronicles of Darkness

Wanderhome

Mage: The Awakening

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

Pugmire

Three Raccoons in a Trench Coat

World Tree (RPG)

Pawpocalypse

Heckin' Good Doggos

Humblewood

Dungeons & Dragons

Music

In My Eyes You're a Giant - Sonata Arctica

It Won't Fade - Unia

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WITCH SUNDERS THE WORLD

WITCH SUNDERS THE WORLD is the Book 2 of PRINCESS MURDERS THE HERO, a Southeast Asian epic fantasy web serial which follows a princess and her royal knight in surviving the wheel of violence and finding glory by wracking it and killing mythochauvinism.

The first chapter introduces a new character completely that is poised to be pretty important in the overall narrative, and is intricately tied to Masuna's arc

As I said before I'm going to be a bit more experimental with this Book, inspired by all the Wuxia and manga i've read. Smaller arcs, less three-act-structure, more character-focused stuff, things I wouldn't get away with if I was writing just a normal novel series lmao

Of course it's all in Gubat Banwa's setting! SO: Bakong is full on Heavenspear rn Sampong Baha is Mangangayaw Masuna is a Witch style Discipline Kawilankayu is still Bladeweaver And two new characters who'll be a Warspeaker and a Kawal (Virbanwan) respectively!

All art by the seminal @multocat!

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Oh okay, its full batshit MCU speculation time.

-In every universe Gwen Stacy falls for Spider-Man (Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse)

-Venom Symbiote licks the TV screen showing MCU Peter Parker (Venom Let There Be Carnage)

-Venom goop left in Earth 1999999 (Spider-Man No Way Home)

-Marvel trying to be faithful to comics, but also trying to do new interesting things with their characters that fit them (Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, Loki)

-Marvel, Sony, and Fox hate bringing in new people to play fan favorite roles (WandaVision, Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness, Deadpool 3)

What if Spider-Gwen is brought into the MCU not as the traditional Spider-Gwen, who is famous from the Spider-Verse films, but instead Venom (and a character will quip and call her Gwenom like in the comics-). Sony probably wont want a new Eddie Brock Venom in the MCU when they have their ongoing Venom series, nor would they want a Gwen Stacy to retread Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Spiderverse. This would explain an easy way for her to get her powers and famously white and black suit, by having the Venom symbiote attach to her. Have her start out as Gwenom, but as the film progresses, she falls for Spider-Man, and slowly learns to control her powers, and then using the symbiote as a biological web-shooter to mimic Peter's, becoming Spider-Gwen.

It's even a good way to have Gwen still be transgender like in Spiderverse, make it so that she may not start out as Gwen exactly, but the symbiote lets her attain a form she is fully attached to and what she truly wants. The symbiote does amplify our emotions and desires, as shown in like, every Spider-Man thing with Venom.

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Breaking down the comics: A New Past (Vol 3, Issue 1-3)

Marc Spector: Moon Knight Vol 3

So this follows right after the OG run. We left behind Moench and Zelenetz.

Now we run into a new group of writers and artists.

Writers:

Chuck Dixon, Mike Baron, Howard Mackie, J.M. DeMatteis, Al Milgrom, and Bruce Jones

Artists:

Sal Velluto, Bill Reinhold, Russ Heath, Mark Bagley, Ron Garney, J.J. Birch, and Denys Cowan.

A whole group of names that aren't that common place. Which is a pity because they did an alright job!

When you look at the Omnibus, you also get a content warning!

"This content contains Depictions of racism, sexual assault and suicide. Reader discretion is advised. If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide, or are worried about a friend or loved one, please reach out to a counselor or someone you trust or Dial 988 for the suicide and crisis lifeline."

A bit of history: The crisis line was created in January 2005.

Since the first Marc Spector story came out in June 1989, it's safe to say this is a late Marvel addition. Hidden in moderate font on the credits page. This Omnibus book was published in 2023. A lot of new books that contain old content contain these new warnings.

I highly respect the Marvel publishers for the singular reason that when they re-released older content, they recognized the problems in them and rather than correct, censor, or hide them, they kept it as a piece of history and slapped a content warning on there.

ANOTHER interesting fact, when looking at the Omnibus, you get to see the dates. This series of Moon Knight ran from June 1989 through 1994.

It was ongoing and takes place after the West Coast Avengers, which technically took place directly after Zelenetz left, but I'm going to skip over that for now.

I doubt very much I will really cover West Coast Avengers (1987-1989, starting with issue #21 and ending with Issue #41). I might touch on it a bit later, but I was never really a fan. Plus he mostly just kinda pops in silently in the background with most of them.

Now, this was an interesting time in the comics. The early 90s saw things take a drastic turn towards EXTREME. The 90s were a new target audience, a new decade, and the world was changing.

The cold war came to an end at the end of 1991, but the Gulf War started in 1990.

Comics were suddenly competing with and trying to get a foot in on Television, which was suddenly a household thing and latch-key kids wanted something to hold their attention.

Now, the Marc Spector series has recently been released in Omnibus volumes. Vol 1 holds issues 1-34 with excerpts from Amazing Spider-Man #353-358 and specials including 'Divided We Fall'

Terry Kavanagh kicks off with Omnibus Vol 2 and that name should start to look more familiar. He worked on Spider-Man for a long time and X-men along with Avengers, Iron Man, and a lot of big crossovers.

Vol 2 holds Issues 25-60, a Moon Knight special, more Spider-Man crossover "Web of Spider-Man #93-94, and some Moon Knight from 1998-1999! (The Omnibus comes out this March 5th, 2024 if you're a collector!) Since it's not out yet, I'm going to be starting with Vol 1 for now.

What's interesting is that the series 'Marc Spector' ends with Marc's 'death'.

So what happens to Moon Knight after that? The king himself, Moench returns to resurrect Marc Spector for a second time in a 4 issue special.

In fact, Moench returns for the whole Moon Knight Vol 4 and 5 (1998-1999) mini series, each one 4 issues long.

Things had to be fixed after how it all ended, after all.

I'll cover the Moench specials later.

I’ll be honest. I’ve been putting off the 90s runs. The 90s were not exactly my cup of tea when it came to Marvel comics. I was more of a Batman fan (with a few notable exceptions). But as I’ve mentioned many times… My memory is pretty shit so maybe I’ll get into it and be happily surprised and enjoy myself more than I think I will.

So let’s get into it!

Let's start with Issue #1!

Marc Spector: Moon Knight. Issue #1: New Moon.

Written by Charles Dixon

Art by Sal Velluto

We open on Long Island. We see someone doing a 3am diaper run and stopping at an ATM first.

Two thugs sit in a car on the corner waiting. They spot the poor sleepy dad and decide he'd make a nice cash grab.

They hold him up at gun point and demand he take out the max.

Well... One holds him at gun point. The other rips the door off the man's car for some reason.

Hey look, It's our man!

Now, remember, Moon Knight has been out of New York for a while with the West Coast Avengers. We're picking up here right after he left them.

Moon Knight casts his shadow on the villains.

"You boys forget your bank cards?"

"It's a ghost!"

"I've been away too long. You guys don't even recognize me."

"It ain't no ghost, Rocket scientist. But he's gonna be one."

Title card: NEW MOON. Beginning a new series chronicling the adventures of Marc Spector.

You know, the art here really brings to mind early Sienkiewicz Moon Knight. The dramatic leap that leaves his ass out. The awkward stances, the action kicks, the clenched fists... Maybe the poses are a LITTLE more awkward than Bill gave Marc credit for, but I'm loving the clean lines and shading.

Plus, Do I spy a crescent dart upgrade!?

Marc quips “After all of the high-powered weirdos I fought with the West Coast Avengers… It's good to be back on home turf kicking the rear ends of a few AVERAGE lowlifes!"

Marc has always loved beating on common thugs. He so often fights supernatural brutal muscle bound villains. When he gets a casual robbery, he’s almost giddy.

Notice I’m saying Marc here a lot.

When Moon Knight joined the Avengers on the West Coast, we did not see any sign of Jake or Steven. We know from the OG run that Jake doesn’t leave New York. And I suspect that Steven has never played well with the Avengers or team ups of that sort.

Perhaps we had Moon Knight as himself, but it’s clear from the title of this series that we’re going to be getting Marc Spector himself and the writers that will be working on this are most likely not comfortable working with Friendly and Loving Jake and Generous and glitzy Steven. Of course the wild and extreme early 90s is going to focus on Marc. And thus we start down the LONG and drawn out Moon Knight tradition of forgetting that he has DID with other Alters and not just Schizophrenia with a ‘pretend’ identity crisis.

But I’m going to take this down a different path and we’re going to look at this as Marc falling into the trap of his usual denial and trying to get his life together by holding front so hard that you’d have to literally pry it out of his cold dead fingers (ha ha, we’ll get to that later).

Anyways, back to the comic. The thugs are subdued and the poor sleepy dad man thanks him "You're Moonbeam, aren't you?"

"Moon KNIGHT, pal. I have been out of New York too long."

Marc ties up the thugs and tells the guy to wait there for the cups. He radioed ahead to them before he dropped in.

The chopper arrives and Marc gets on the ladder and takes off with the most awkward:

"There they are now. Take it easy, Citizen." and he salutes.

Yeah.... It's Marc. Without a doubt... No one could be that awkward but Marc...

On the chopper, Frenchie has also taken note of the moment.

"'Take it easy, Citizen?'"

"Aw, lighten up, Frenchie."

Marc takes off the mask and relaxes back next to Frenchie in a really weirdly designed chopper that looks more like a hover car than anything... But sure. Upgrades!

"Y'know, Frenchie... I think the guy I saved down there was more afraid of me than those hoods."

"Is that not the reason for the costume?"

"Sure. But I don't want the innocent to fear me."

"The innocent will fear you most of all."

"I should have shaved. This mask chafes my face something awful."

Marc...

It is very nice to see them actually talking, though. You never got to see Marc and Frenchie actually be the friends they were supposed to be. And Marc is never more relaxed than when he's with Frenchie and they can talk about the past without worry.

"Crime fighting doesn't seem to suit you these days, frenchie."

"It is a waste of our talents, Marc. We could have easily strafed those dogs out of existence."

"We're not mercenaries anymore. We can't just make things up as we go along. We've got rules in this country, m'man."

"Then I do not like the rules."

"Live it or live with it, Frenchie."

Now this is interesting because this is the first time that we really get a feel for what Frenchie thinks of all of this superhero business.

We know Frenchie was a Legionnaire, we know he was a very GOOD mercenary that helped recruit Marc in the first place, and that his talents are with vehicles.

We also know that Frenchie had strong opinions on the work he took (as seen in the very first issue when he came to Marc to complain about Bushman's sketchy business).

But Frenchie ALSO was very attached to Marc and followed him without question.

So here we have Frenchie noting that picking on thugs is far below what they are both capable of.

Just an interesting tidbit.

Another interesting tidbit is that we see the Mooncopter landing back at Grand Mansion and Marc notes that he was able to buy it back after returning from West Coast Avengers.

"At TWICE the amount you sold it for, Marc."

"You're on my case tonight, Frenchie."

We get a little map of where the mansion is on Long Island and that the current Market Value is $5,890,000. Which.... In today's currency is: $14,649,807.50 today!!!!!!

Here’s a pretty cool design of the mansion with fun facts!

Now what's interesting is that we see Marc returning to an empty mansion. Just him and Frenchie. No Marlene. No Samules the Butler or Nedda the cook.

The phone rings from an unlisted number and when he answers, no one says anything.

Angrily, he hangs up and we get a view of a woman on the other line saying "He's home. We got the right number."

This explains why we are getting blueprints of the moonchopper and the mansion and map of Long Island. Someone's looking for Marc.

Marc does Marc things and wanders the mansion a bit and starts talking to the Khonshu statue.

It's time for the Marc Spector Recap of how he became Moon Knight! (remember, this is issue #1 so it's a good place for new readers to pick up a new comic. You'll often find recaps and deep character introductions in 1st issues.)

"Past four in the morning and all the sane people are in bed. It's all YOUR fault, Khonshu. You got me into this. God of the moon, taker of vengeance.

Actually I got me into this when I hooked up with that crazy Bushman back in my mercenary days. Now THERE was a prime psycho.

Killing is a part of any war, but Bushman got off on it. I tagged along until he killed Dr. Peter Alraune, an American archaeologist, and it looked like his daughter was next.

I helped Marlene escape and then challenged Bushman in hand to hand combat. Not one of my brighter ideas.

He left me for dead and he was just about right! Somehow I managed to make it to the digs that the doctor was trying to protect... The Shrine of Khonshu.

Marlene tells me I 'Died' there and was revived by the spirit of Khonshu.

I wrapped myself in Khonshu's shroud and, from that night on, I took on the mantle of Moon Knight."

Oh Marc... You would tell it like that.

Marc heads up stairs to bed (tossing his cape on the stairs as he goes) and when he enters his room someone jumps at him.

Marc fends them off, elbowing them and then flipping them onto the bed.

Oh hey! It's Marlene!

And she's already half undressed. Welcome to the 90s!

"You play a little rough, cowboy. I think you broke one of my nails."

"What did you expect sneaking in here like that?"

"Well, there was no one home. I thought I'd surprise you."

"Mission accomplished, Baby."

"Not so easy the way you have this place wired. But my sneaking skills needed a workout anyway, so...I thought I'd come see you. It's been so long, and I thought I'd take a chance..."

And the two goof off a bit then we have implied hanky-panky as the scene cuts away.

I have well known mixed feelings about Marlene. And with Marc now running the show, it's interesting that she'd come back, considering her feelings on Marc vs. Steven. More interesting that he left her behind.

We cut to Manhattan and find two guys in Hawaiian shirts at a large computer terminal (gotta love those 1980s thick monitors). They're celebrating because:

"We got this Moon Knight guy blued, stewed and tattooed! We know more about him than he knows about himself, Tector!

Yuh done good, little brother. You worked some real magic with that keyboard. Our bossman is gonna be so proud."

And the boss steps in, asking if they have found him yet.

"Tector's digging up more data on his home security system. So far it looks like a hummer! Bet the Kremlin in Russia ain't got so fine a wire job, boss."

And we pan out to find the boss:

Alright, he’s upped his style and given himself a new title. I appreciate the new look. They kept it authentic to the original Bushman and also added in their own artistic style and I dig it. Not sure about the new outfit, but who am I to tell our delusional bad guy how to dress?

"I want projections on the best way to approach Moon Knight. I want his weaknesses exposed to me. This information is vital to my nation's security, Lyle. You will have it by morning."

Good to see he's still absolutely obsessed with Marc.

And that since we are starting Marc Spector Issue 1, we are going back to the original with Marc's own personal villain, Bushman.

I have a lot to say about Bushman, and I'll save it for the end. So stick around!

Back at Spector Mansion...

It actually says "Spector Mansion."

Another interesting detail because the OG ALWAYS called it Grant Mansion.

Marlene wakes up to find Marc working out in his gym.

"You know, Marc, I'm kind of surprised you're still doing the Moon Knight thing."

"You have a problem with that, Marlene?"

"Why do you do it?"

"I want to do like that dog says on TV. 'Take a bite out of crime'."

(Scruff McGruff. You were a weird part of my childhood).

They argue about letting the police do the work and Marc argues that the police can't be everywhere and do everything.

(That style though.)

"You used to fight a more noble battle."

"I was a Mercenary, for cryin' out loud."

"Don't play the cynic with me. You weren't in it for the cash. If you were you wouldn't have pitched in on the losing side so often."

"I LIKE long odds."

"You're impossible!"

"And YOU are getting more like Frenchie. I get the feeling I'm outnumbered around here."

This is an interesting conversation we keep getting here from both Marlene and Frenchie. That they think he was better as a Mercenary but he argues that his Mercenary work was not good for him.

Marc says he's starving but that he gave the cook the week off.

Marlene asks how Nedda is.

"Oh, I retired her to my condo in Boca Raton. I never go there anyway. Chloe's the new cook."

"What's she like?"

"Not terribly attractive. She's older than Moses and has a mustache that Frenchie's jealous of."

"Marc, you're terrible."

And then Chloe walks in unexpectedly.

(Alright. It’s going to be like that. Welcome to the 90s.)

Yep.

Down in the chopper area, we find Marc now working on the chopper for once.

Come to think of it, in the OG, it was ALWAYS Frenchie up working on the chopper. But then again, it was always Steven at the mansion. Now that Marc is out and about, he's the one tinkering about.

"YOu're working down here late, Marc. Didn't I see Marlene earlier?"

"Sure did, Frenchie. We have resumed our stormy relationship. She got an eyeful of Chloe and I sent her packing off to the mall with my goldcard to smooth things over."

"Americans... You fight with your women because you don't know how to love them."

Ah, Frenchie...

They are interrupted by a frantic call on the radio from Marlene. She's driving on the highway and she's "Under attack"!

I am pleased that the writers remembered that Marlene knows how to handle herself. She was trained by Marc, after all. She can shoot, fight, and drive. She’s no damsel in distress.

Marc shows up and finds the car empty. He attacks the remaining gun-men and demands to know where Marlene is.

"Spector, are you STILL parading about in that ridiculous costume?"

"You're one to talk about taste in clothes, Bushman."

"Amusing, Spector, you always were a glub one."

Bushman holds Marlene at knife point (Speaking of damsel in distress) and demands that Marc meet up with him later tonight to find out what his demands are.

He then shoots one of his own men just to prove the point that he's still a vicious cold blooded killer, then he drives off in a classy car with Marlene.

Marc is...less than happy about this.

"You're a dead man, Bushman. You just don't know it yet."

TO BE CONTINUED.

I’m not going to make you wait. Here you go!

Marc Spector, Moon Knight: Issue #2: Hunter’s Moon.

Written by: Charles Dixon

Art by: Sal Velluto

Alright, Apparently Spider-Man is going to be in this one. This is going to be interesting.

We open back up in Manhattan.

We got three nerdy looking guys on a roof across from the Excelsior (Fancy hotel) with a telescope spying on the guests.

While fighting over the 'scope, they happen to catch a glimpse of 'a ghost'.

Yeah, he's being real sneaky there.

So there he is... at the Embassy of the Republic of Burunda. This is Bushman's new country that he has made himself 'President' of.

Marc notes the place looks pretty well armored and guarded. He has Frenchie up in the sky as usual.

"I'm WAY behind on my current events. I didn't know that Bushman had set himself up as the strongman in Burunda."

"I saw it on sixty minutes. Forgot to tell you."

Frenchie suggests waiting for Bushman to call and tell him what he wants, since they aren't even sure if Bushman has Marlene in the embassy.

Marc says Bushman enjoys always having the edge, including diplomatic immunity. There's no way he's going to wait.

Hey look, the tech brothers from before are back!

They have caught sight of Moon Knight on their CCTV cams.

Bushman decides to send Marc a message.

"Spector must be discouraged from coming near the embassy again. He must meet my demands without question. Is that CLear, Mister Glitch?"

While Marc tries to track someone leaving the Embassy, Bushman sends his personal bodyguards after him.

HEY. Remember the warning at the top of this collected run? The one about racism and other things?

He puts up a fight, telling Frenchie to stay on the guy leaving the embassy.

Marc puts up a fight and jumps around building to building until he gets ahead.

Spider-man happens to be swinging by and notices Marc's group.

"Now there's something you don't see everyday... A bunch of guys dressed like Tarzan extras running into central park after midnight."

Spider-man follows and good ol' Peter Parker takes out the camera to catch some shots of Moon Knight in action.

"They seem to be after the one in the cape. Might as well take some pictures to sell to the paper. This guy sure doesn't need MY help. Say "Cheese" everybody."

Marc takes out the last of the group and continues his chase.

"Moon Knight, huh? I thought he was in California. Well, off to the darkroom. And thanks for the help with the rent, Moonie!"

And Spider-man heads out.

(I've talked about 'special guest appearances' in comics before. It's a big show to get people to buy and read the comic and try to convince new fans to come in. You're lucky if they are in the comic for half a page.)

Marc is back on the tail of the guy and he meets up with him.

He tells the guy they need to talk and then...He knocks him out with knockout gas. Wh...Why?

Maybe the guy wanted to talk? Why are you knocking out and kidnapping a guy before you even find out if he has the info you need?!

....Back at the Embassy, we find Marlene is inside and not happy.

People forget that while Marc has a grudge and hate of Bushman, Marlene is the one whose father was killed by him.

He tells Marlene that he's a man of the people, HIS people, and unfortunately his people are very poor. It seems he expects Marc to fix that situation.

Back to Marc and his poor decision making skills...

We find the man he's kidnapped waking up... and dangling upside down from the moon chopper.

Not going to lie, his little wave in that first panel is sending me.

So it seems Bushman wants ten million dollars. Lemme just get the conversion calculator out: $25,456,099.59.

Yeah. I'd want that much too.

"He wants it in one week or he'll chop the girl to pieces."

"And where am I supposed to get Ten Mill?"

"Find a way! The General knows you've got the money!"

"I don't like what you had to say, Buddy. Have a nice fall."

And Marc pushes him out of the chopper.

Lucky for the man, Frenchie had bought the chopper down and the man only falls a couple feet.

He tells the man to tell Bushman that he'll be in touch.

Next up? Marc goes to see his accountant!

"You don't have ten million bucks lying around in 'sacks' somewhere."

LOL Marc...

"Your money's tied up in real estate and business interests and your art collection."

"So SELL some of the paintings. Sell some of my business interests."

"What wuld you like me to do? Hang a garage sale sign on the mailbox? 'Picasso for sale, CHEAP'? And as far as your business interests go, they're just that: INTERESTS. You have partners in these ventures that you would HURT by liquidating in a big hurry--Not to mention the employees."

Steven is in there having a FIT right now.

I'm dying right now because I was JUST talking to someone about how clever Steven was with their money and how Marc has no idea what he's doing with money and probably took two days to lose it all in the current run. I’d like to amend my statement to say he’d lose it in two hours.

"I don't know what you need the money for, it can't be anything Kosher, Marc. But we just can't swing it."

Marc apologizes for losing his temper. The accountant leaves and he tells Frenchie the bad news. "I'm what they call cash poor."

Oh Marc... Is... Is that a Khonshu bust on his desk? Wh...

"That's the bad news. The good news is that we get to do this MY way."

Marc...

"And this time I go alone."

Back at the Embassy, we see a "Empire Cable commercial repair" truck pull up. A guy gets out and goes up to the gate.

Oh no. Is he doing what I think he's doing?

MARC.

The guard says he can't let anyone in without varifying first. The General is busy and doesn't want to be disturbed so "I will call your company."

So he calls the number on the truck, which would not verify anything if this was a guy trying to sneak in. But what's logic for you?

And GUESS WHAT. The number goes to Frenchie putting on an accent.

He verifies the job and sends the cable repair guy in with another guard.

Once inside, Marc knocks out the guard with chloroform (Why does he had so much chloroform?) and rushes off, leaving the body in the middle of the floor.

And the tech brothers sure as heck notice a strange guy running around on the CCTV cameras.

They call the front gate and have a thing or two to say about a 'cable repair guy'.

Marc starts just opening random doors looking for Marlene.

A couple of guards spot him and Marc knocks them out. So much for his disguise.

Back in Moon Knight attire, he runs down the hall. The tech guys decide to take off. They know a bad fight when they see one coming.

Marc continues his quest of opening EVERY door he finds while yelling "MARLENE!"

SIGH. Marc… This is why you need Steven and Jake. Just putting that out there.

So Marc beats up all the big buff gym boys.

I appreciate that they at one point get the upper hand and pin him down while beating him and Marc just goes "You'll have to do better than that" after taking a few hard hits.

Marc really does not treat the body well.

He asks the last guy where Marlene is before knocking him out.

He busts in so hard that I’m tempted to count it on my “jumps through window” tally.

(Look at this dramatic idiot. This is the biggest wet cat yowling energy I’ve ever seen.)

SO he busts in and is met with a SAW-esque situation with Bushman on TV.

Bushman tells him he had to fly back to his homeland on urgent business and he's taken Marlene with him.

TO BE CONTINUED.

At the end of the issue we have a "Let's meet the team" afterward and we get to learn a little about the new group working on Moon Knight.

It's very brief. Mostly it's just how old they are, if they are married or have kids, and a few previous comic names they have worked on.

I'm going to be frank with you here. If you've been reading my other reviews, you have an idea on what's been going on in Marvel during this time and WHY Moench isn't writing Moon Knight at this time.

Marvel comics had just had a huge upheaval of all their major writers and artists due to disagreements with the editor in chief. So these are a lot of young guys that are coming in off of low name comics.

ALSO none of them talk about why or how they got placed into the Moon Knight run.

So my big question is why don't you think of these guys when you think of Moon Knight? I can name SO MANY writers and artists from may different runs that were amazing or terrible. Or even just mid. But these guys? Not even a blip on my chart.

Clearly Chuck Dixon had Moon Knight for more than just a guest writer or special.

Doing a little background look into him, he was best known for Punisher and DC comics like Batman, Nightwing, and Robin in the 1990s and 2000s.

He got his start in the big leagues with Conan and worked his way up to Marc Spector: Moon Knight. After that, he started on Punisher and Punisher war Journal. DC got their mits on him and he became "DC's most prolific Batman writer in the 1990s".

So yeah... Despite working on Moon Knight 1989-1992 for 25 issues... He just isn't a big name for the comic.

And honestly, the Marc Spector Moon Knight run was often considered very MID. Not outright terrible, but very directionless. It existed and left very little impact on the series.

I'll give it credit that it DID at least keep the series going and allow it to reboot again later instead of just disappearing forever. So thank you for that!

But… I remember that Zelenetz had an interview where he talked about where he had wanted to take Moon Knight after Vol 2 ended, but he was no longer on the project. Now I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he had been allowed to keep going.

ANYWAYS… What issue are we on?

Marc Spector, Moon Knight: Issue #3: Butcher’s Moon

Written by: Charles Dixon

Art by: Sal Velluto

Oh boy. Where’s that Content Warning able? I have a feeling this is about to get dicey.

WOW. Right out the gate!

Alright so... We see an airport and someone is going through customs.

We are now in Burunda.

And a very uh... characture... fellow... asks to see this guy's passport.

It's CLEARLY Marc in a disguise. He has a European UK Passport and is claiming to be Ian Waller, a photo journalist from Manchester sent to take pictures of how the country is doing under the new General leader Bushman.

The customs officer keeps his passport, telling him that he will get it back when he leaves. (Not a good sign.)

The town is "Freedomtown" and ....

I'm going to make you squint at this picture.

You got a clearly poor country depicted under the rule of a tyrant that rules through fear and violence.

You got a car with the word "TAXI" spray painted on the side. He claims to be the only taxi in the country.

Then you have several children running after the 'photojournalist' yelling "White man rich? White man have dollar?"

Then on the corner you have what's clearly supposed to be a hooker and her pimp not too far away, though it's cleverly disguised as a bus stop and can be argued otherwise. Then you got homeless guys and bags of trash... There's a lot going on here. It's like a Where's Waldo of stereotypical poor African country depiction.

He gets in the taxi and the driver takes off.

"Driver? I didn't give you a destination."

"Only ONE destination, Sah. Only ONE Hotel."

(I am grinning at the idea of Marc putting on a fake Manchester Accent. Thank you Steven Grant MCU. He actually says "I guess it is, innit?" and I'm so happy).

The 'photojournalist' goes to take a picture of some military group and the Taxi driver smacks his camera down.

"No! NO picture without permission, Sah."

How very North Korea of you.

The Journalist gets to the hotel and starts to unpack.

Would you look at that? It's Marc Spector in disguise! (Another mustache) He vows that once it gets dark he's going to go looking for Marlene and also take care of Bushman.

We head over to the Presidential Palace.

Out front we see a truck arrive full of people and a bunch of guards with guns offloading them.

And in the back of the palace there is a large pool. So of course we see Marlene out for a swim in a tiny bikini. Getting back to the basics.

She gets out of the pool and Bushman offers her a robe. They exchange a few quips.

"What's your game, Bushman? What made you want to settle down and rule your own personal dungheap?"

"I Feel compassion for my people. This WAS my homeland. The Tribe my family belonged to once ruled this land frm end to end until the Europeans deposed them. Now I rule. I am like a warming sun shining on my people. I am like the rain that nourishes the soil."

"I can think of another thing that nourishes the soil, General. And you're full of it."

While they talk, they are interrupted by gunfire.

"You do amuse me. You find my ways harsh. I see them as direct. As sole ruler of Burunda, I face no opposition, no Bureaucracy. I am free to deal with my nation's problems efficiently."

We cut to another panel where we see soldiers with smoking guns and a pile of dead bodies of men young and old.

"Problems such as aids. I have found a cure for aids."

HISTORY TIME:

Alright. There is a LOT going on in that last panel. A LOT of history. A LOT of politics. a LOT of terrible things.

This comic came out in 1989. We are at the height of the Aids pandemic. I'm not going to get deeply into it, but if you have questions please feel free to ask. In America, it was seen strictly as a Homosexual disease and the people afflicted were written off, forgotten, and left to die alone and scared. In Africa, many places saw Aids as a sin-ful or taboo disease and they were cast out of their villages or outright killed.

It was a disease that wiped out a generation of homosexual men and is the reason why there are so few older gays for younger people to learn from. It's... It's a whole thing and there are papers and books and documentaries on it.

What I find interesting in relation to THIS comic in particular...

We are in 1989, it's still killing gay men and a lot of people saw this as a good thing. The way this panel is done is to show how terrible this is. It brings humanity to the aids victims and shows that killing them is NOT a solution and is a terrible thing. ALSO considering the Marvel editor in chief that caused a lot of writers to leave was intensely homophobic, this may have been a sneaky jab.

Take my word for it, there is a LOT going on.

It's a beautifully sad panel. I'm not going to show it because it has dead bodies and depicts extreme violence and is just too depressing.

Back to the comic!

Marlene yells at Bushman, demanding to be let go.

Bushman says that "Spector will come for you. He loves you more than he will ever admit to you, I know him. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants."

Back at the hotel we see a bunch of guards knocking on the 'photo journalist's' door.

They go inside only to find him gone!

Up on the roof, we have Moon Knight holding a bow and arrow set.

"Nobody in sight. Bushman probably has a curfew around here. Boy, is he strict. Hope nobody asks for my hall pass."

I must say that the colorist really did a fantastic job on the night time shading and moon light glow. It's just very pretty.

He climbs a bell tower to get a good view of the area and finds a military compound with a large fuel truck.

Marc, of course, gets a bright idea for a diversion.

One of the guards near the truck pulls out a cigaret and asks for a light. A note says "Translated from Domi, a local tribal dialect"

"I got your light, Pal." Marc says just before he lets loose an arrow.

What I love about this is that Marc understands him. Implying that Marc understands the dialect. This is why he's such a good mercinary. He isn't just good at killing and fighting. He was amazing at learning everything about the places he went, including the language.

The arrow hits the truck and BLAAAAAAAAAAM.

Oh look at that. An Ammunition storehouse.

Yeah, he blows that one up too. He's having a good time.

"That should keep their eyes off the rooflines and their minds off ME for a while."

We find Bushman in his private office wathing a women's fighting match.

Someone interrupts him to tell him that the supply depot has exploded and injured many men, but somehow not killed anyone.

"He is here." Bushman smiles.

If you will think back to issue 1 of Moon Knight, Marc did the exact same thing when he came back from the dead and was sneaking back into the dig site. He blew up a truck to cause a distraction.

I'm starting to think Marc might be a bit of a pyro.

"We now head Several Hundred Miles South" where a bunch of men are sitting around a camp fire near a helicopter.

And here we see Frenchie walking up. He starts in French, saying hello and asking if they speak French. Then English.

"I want to buy your helicopter."

"You are saying WHAT?"

"The Huey. I want to buy your Huey."

They laugh a little, thinking he is joking until Frenchie pulls out a suitcase full of money.

....Now... I'd like to point out that Frenchie did just as much work as Marc, possibly more, and got paid a lot. He never really did much with it... He probably has a lot saved up. He ALSO probably had Steven invest for him. I would not be surprised if Frenchie is richer than Marc.

So he takes off with the chopper and tosses behind the money.

Back in town, we see the soldiers running around looking for Moon Knight.

Up high, we see Moon Knight walking across the power lines towards the palace.

He sneaks inside and takes out a guard.

Elsewhere, we see two soldiers moving to retrieve Marlene for Bushman.

They hear the shower running and go to get her (and take a peek). She opens the curtain and reveals she's in her bathing suit and ready to fight. She sprays one guy with hot water in the face then kicks the other guard.

She manages to steal a fifle and takes off. "This is what Bushman calls an army? I might not even need this rifle."

Marc is having a similar thought.

Bullets fly all over as he runs down a hall.

"These guys can't be this bad at marksmanship by accident. It's more like they're just chasing me somewhere. If it's closer to Bushman, then I'm happy to oblige."

WINDOW! WINDOW! WE HAVE A WINDOW!

Now, let me just say, I do love the Bushman design in this. This is how he SHOULD be. Not whatever that was that Bemis gave us.

"Do you see this sword? It is the traditional weapon of my people."

"Thanks for showing me the family silverware, Bushman. But I'm here for the woman."

"Some things never change. You always did use snappy banter when you were most nervous, Spector. Defeat me and the woman's yours."

Marc asks why Bushman became obsessed with him.

"You represent everything I hate. A mercenary making his fortune from the miseries of the third world."

"Cut the bull! You made millions and never cared where the money came from as long as you could spend it. I may have been a mercenary, but you were a butcher! I never shot anyone who wasn't pointing a gun at me."

"It was just such softness that always got you in trouble!"

They start the battle. Marc with his nun-chucks snaps takes their swings. Bushman draws first blood when he slices through Marc's mask.

"It's not who bleeds first. It's who's left standing!"

Another slice cuts into Marc's side, but he's had worse.

Marc kicks him in the chest then smashes his face with the palm of his hand.

Marc goes full ...Marc... on Bushman, fists and blows. It's his fighting style to take hits and keep going.

Marc gets the upper hand and demands to know where Marlene is.

Bushman calls out to his men to shoot Marc.

"They shoot me, they hit you too!" Marc reminds him.

But then bullets rain down around them, snapping Bushman's sword in two.

And Frenchie comes in with the chopper.

"Through playing the hero yet, Marc?"

"Good to hear your voice, Frenchie. Put her down as close as you can. This place is HOT."

Marlene wants to know why she can't just shoot Bushman and end it.

Marc tells her not to. He fails to give her any good reason other than that they need to get out of there quickly.

I have theories about this that I'll discuss in a moment.

Marc releases Bushman as soon as they start to take off.

"You walk away this time, General. THIS time!"

Frenchie opens fire, scattering the men to prevent them from trying to shoot them down.

What I love about this is that Marc is still the chaotic, bad decision making, single man army, and utter goof he has always been and will continue to be when written well. He has a strange but endearing sense of humor and he does not take it well when those close to him are at risk.

So this story done, let’s address a few things!

In this introduction to the new series, you’ll notice a lot of people are missing.

Where’s Gena, Crawley, Samules, Nedda, Jake, and Steven? Why is this Marc Spector in title and the Spector Mansion? Why is Marlene suddenly addressing him as Marc and okay with dating Marc when she’s previously hated Marc and only wanted to be with Steven?

No one addressed their DID better than Moench. With Moench out of the picture, who was very forward thinking in terms of this mental illness and its depictions for its time, we are now at the mercy of people who have not done their research and who have not kept up with the evolution of mental illness. We are now at the mercy of writers that follow Hollywood depictions. Sure, Moench based it off of Hollywood at first, but somehow, this man was in touch with modern issues, accurate depictions of DID, PTSD, depression, dissociation… He had a gift.

With the upheaval at Marvel, they were more reliant on the reader and what the statistics told them readers wanted. Readers of the early 90s apparently wanted ACTION and HOT BABES and MANLY MEN. So guess what? Marc’s in charge and the others? They are going to be lucky to get any screen time. We’re going to start seeing more references to Marc ‘pretending to be other people’ and more references to Marc as being closer to Schizophrenia or ‘crazy’ than DID (or Multiple Personality Disorder, as it was known by at the time).

And all those side characters? We’ve already seen that Nedda has been retired. Samules? Also probably retired and replaced by Chloe up there in her bikini.

Gena? In the last run, Gena was talking a lot about leaving. She’d been through a lot and she, perhaps, was the first victim of being too close to them. She was beloved by Jake and she acted as a kind and nurturing voice with him. She brought out the best in him and he loved her boys like a doting uncle. And she was the first to get hurt.

So will we see Gena in this run? We’ll have to wait and see.

What about Crawley? An eccentric and useful man to Jake and Moon Knight. Here’s the deal on Crawley. Moench wrote him with such a unique way of speaking that other writers found it difficult to keep it going with him. Even his personality was pretty unique. So we aren’t going to see a whole lot of Crawley either, and he may change in how we see him.

Now for Jake and Steven? In Moench’s run, Marc took the back seat. From this point on in Moon Knight history, Marc is going to sit front and center and the other two are going to be passing fancies. Perhaps I’ll make a different analysis on this later. What DOES happen is that we are going to start seeing more of WHO Marc Spector really is, and not just what Steven and Jake see. (He's kind of a goofy idiot with severe self loathing).

Bushman: I think I talked about this before, but in case I didn’t or you haven’t read it yet, here we go again (for the first time?).

Bushman was never meant to be the BIG BAD. He was the catalyst. When Marlene asks Bushman why he’s obsessed with Marc, Bushman notes that he created Marc’s need to become Moon Knight.

In reality, he is the one that ‘killed’ Marc, which did take him to Khonshu’s temple and this made him take the shroud and become Moon Knight. He’s also the one that made Marc realize he had a conflicted code of ethics and morals.

But when it comes to Bushman, Marc does not see him as ‘the big bad’. He sees a frustrating man that has an unhealthy obsession with him and often causes him stress.

And we’ve seen time and time again that Bushman does not stand up to Marc’s fighting abilities. It’s why Bushman obsesses with him. He feels like Marc was just some random guy he found and somehow Marc is better than him. And while Bushman has set out to be the best, Marc doesn’t care. Marc just IS good at what he does.

So why do fans and writers see Bushman appear and go “OHHH” and get excited?

Because Bushman represents who Marc could have been. Bushman is a representation of Marc’s past. The violence, the killing, the coldbloodedness. He’s everything Marc was becoming but still fought against. Bushman is Marc’s inner struggle. He is what Marc rebels against but still turns to time and time again.

When Marc spirals, he spirals with the image of Bushman. He was never that bad. He was never seen as being as ‘good’ as Bushman because he would not let himself become that far gone. But as Moon Knight, they have proven to be better.

Of course then you have the writers that just have a thing for Bushman because he’s ‘badass’ (Looking at you Bemis) and don’t know how to utilize him properly.

Anyways! This was the start of “Marc Spector: Moon Knight”. What do you think so far?

I’m going to be taking these in batches and not one at a time. So expect longer posts when I get to them! (Unless you have a special single issue that deserves more time).

…this was a long post.

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight comics #Analyzing the comics #Marc Spector #Jake Lockley #Steven Grant #Marlene Alraune #Bushman #I'm back!#That was a longer break than I intended but things happened

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baby scarab || 22

@castielslittledove - i have an idea for the amazing baby scarab miniseries <3

how about some of Harrow’s men found out about y/n after spying on her for a while and then kidnap her as revenge to get to Marc for what he did to Harrow and when they find her they’re really mad and since Jake is the most violent of them all he takes control and kills everyone ti make sure y/n wouldn’t be in harms way ever again? it could be a angsty at the beginning and fluffy at the end (sorry if this was too long!)

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A/N : i tried my best, kinda rushed and short

masterlist - marvel masterlist - series masterlist

A/N : pls read the tw

please enjoy, and don't be shy if you want to be in the taglist, just ask <3, sorry for the long wait

pairings : steven grant x (platonic)reader, marc spector x (platonic) reader, khonshu x (platonic)reader, jake lockley x (platonic)reader

TW : medicine (pills), language, spidey stuff, violence, child abandonment, weapons, abduction, needles. let me know if i missed anything

~~~

last night while steven was making dinner, you hadn’t expected evie to call you, the only reason she did was because she was complaining that you weren’t working yesterday.

and to say that she wants to watch ducks with you at the cafe.

a simple conversation, really.

and now it was the next day, you were off work again and the guys were our moon knighting or whatever they do.

and now you were back at your place.

you were bored, as in hanging your head off the couch to feel the blood rush to your head bored.

khonshu couldn’t entertain you, not that you wanted him to since you still wanted to beat his ass for turning you into a cat yesterday.

you were now watching your favorite show, when you heard the lock click and your ears ring.

‘something’s wrong’

you, marc, jake, and steven all had a special knock, to let each other know that it’s them coming in, but there wasn’t any sort of knock this time.

your eyes widen as the lock clicks again, and the doorknob turns.

you quickly get off the couch and hide behind the door, so that when whoever opens it won’t see you.

you hold your breath as the door slowly creaks open, and you stay planted behind it.

you sense four people, and you’re guessing that they are all men much bigger than you.

you can smell the cigarette smoke and axe body spray.

curse your heightened senses right about now.

you hear heavy footsteps come into your apartment, and see three of the four men start looking around inside.

you bite your lip to keep yourself from making any noise, and you take deep shallow breaths.

you’re lucky you got shoes on, because if you have to make a run for it, it’ll be easier and more efficient.

the man still at the door moves, and you panic when you see him looking right at you from the crack in the door.

he slams it behind him, making you completely open for a hit, but you duck before he can grab you.

the other three men make their way back in the room, and you take a fighting stance ready to defend yourself.

“careful, he wouldn’t want her injured” one of them says, making you confused.

you see one of the guys start coming towards you so you attach a web to the ceiling and swing yourself to kick him back, falling into the counter and hitting his head.

the other three were shocked, but still all came at you at once.

the one closest to you throws a punch, and you catch his fist in your hand and push him back, then you proceed to shoot a web at one of the other men who was about to hit you.

you were busy with these two, failing to notice the guy behind you and by the time you did it was too late.

he grabbed you from behind, holding you in a choke hold, and you feel a sharp prick in your neck.

“you put up quite a fight” the man holding you says cockily as you feel your breathing slow down, and you feel your knees buckle from beneath you.

you try to say something back, but all that comes out is a wheeze and a cough from being choked.

“don’t fight it, we’ll be there soon”

so many thoughts were running through your head, where were these guys taking you? what did they want?

you feel lightheaded and try to fight the urge to close your eyes the best you can, but you ultimately fail.

the last thing you saw was the man from your dream standing in front of you.

and then, nothing.

~~~

marc was the one fronting when they all got home, only half expecting you to be at their place.

you weren’t, and they didn’t think anything of it since it was pretty late, it being almost 9.

marc sighed as the suit faded off of him, as he cleaned off his dirtied hands in the kitchen sink.

“hey, khonshu do you mind going and checking on y/n?” marc asks, and a nod comes from khonshu.

he just wanted to make sure you were okay, and sleeping well.

khonshu suddenly rushed back, and marc turns to him confused while drying his hands.

“what is it? is she okay?” marc asks tensely.

“she’s not there” khonshu uncharacteristically stammers over his words. “you.. you have to see for yourself” he fazes through the walls again.

marc unintentionally ignores steven and jakes worried murmurs, rushing out the door and slamming it shut before running down the hallway and unlocking your door as quick as he can.

he stops once he sees the scene.

your couch was pushed a couple feet away from where it usually was, the pillows scattered on the floor.

the small plants you had lined up on the windowsill, under half of them knocked down with the soil all over the floor.

marc takes a shaky breath, walking in slowly and almost feels like fainting when he sees blood on the ground under your counter, silently praying it wasn’t yours.

“i don’t know how long she’s been gone, but i have a feeling i know where she may be” khonshu cuts in softly.

marc looks at him in hope. “well it’s better than nothing” the suit once again envelopes his body, the glowing white eyes glaring out the window.

“lead the way, khonshu”

~~~

you woke up slowly, and it took all you could to open your eyes.

it was pitch black, but you could sense people near you.

you try to move your arms, but they don’t move considering that they are tied down to the arms of the chair you’re sat in.

you feel something covering your wrists too, so that even if you wanted to you couldn’t shoot webs out of them.

your breathing quickens out of panic as you struggle in the chair you’re in, now feeling that your ankles are also tied to the legs of it.

you then hold your breath as you hear the door click open, and a light switch turn on, making you squint up at the bright light.

a different man comes in, a more calm presence compared to the huge men that took you.

you tense you’re jaw and feel your eyes tear up, but you fight the urge to actually cry.

the man pulls up a chair and sits down in front of you.

“hello, y/n” he starts, not expecting to receive an answer.

you don’t answer, but he keeps talking. “i’m guessing that you don’t know why you’re here”

you nod slowly, refusing to talk.

the man purses his lips and nods, pushing up his sleeves, and you notice a tattoo on his forearm.

it was a scale, it was what marc was looking for when he first met you.

he told you all he could, and they were the bad guys, basically.

“well, your father has passed away and-“ he gets cut off by you chuckling quietly.

“if you think i care that my dad is dead then you’re mistaken” you start, gaining confidence.

“i don’t know why i’m here, but if it has anything to do with my father then you’ve wasted your time” you grit out at him, but all he does is smile at you.

“oh, we don’t care about that.” he shakes his head. “we just need you to continue your fathers work” he continues to smile at you.

“no”

“i’m sorry, y/f/n harrow, but you don’t really have much of a choice” he keeps smiling while you sit there confused.

“harrow..” you mutter to yourself, remembering what marc and steven told you about the man.

arthur harrow, the man that released ammit.

you scoff. “my last name is y/l/n” you inform the man, and to that he chuckles.

“ah, victoria y/l/n” the man sighs, looking up at the ceiling and then back to you.

“you don’t know the whole story do you?” he asks rhetorically.

“i know that my parents left me in the street the day i was born” you glare at him.

still smiling at you, he shakes his head. “no” he starts.

“victoria, your mother, she grew tired of your fathers need to release ammit” he clears his throat.

“and once he told her he wanted to drag you- her firstborn- into it she tried to leave him”

“but of course he didn’t let her, not without you anyways.” he waves his hand around.

“when she gave birth to you, she left. without a trace.” you take deep breaths, refusing to believe this man.

“she tried her hardest to get away, but arthur was faster. it was either her or you, and i bet you can tell who she chose”

your eyes teared up to the point that you couldn’t stop the one tear that fell.

“she gave her life for you, and she didn’t even know if you’d be found in time to live longer than a few hours”

“and thank god you did” he finishes, getting up and grabbing something off a table behind you.

“you’re lying” you grit out, shaking your head slowly but jittery.

“oh i can assure you that i’m not, besides don’t you see him trying to reach out to you?” you turn your head back to see a whole tray willed with all types of needles, knives, anything sharp really and you feel your heart drop to the pit of your stomach.

“what are you doing?” you ask quickly, your voice shaking.

“oh don’t worry, i’m just taking some blood since you clearly don’t believe anything i just said” he scoffs, bringing the needle towards you.

“i’ll bring back the dna test when joey is done with you” he chuckles, rubbing the needle up and down your arm.

you struggle again against the ropes holding you down, but freeze again when the man lifts up your sleeve so that your forearm is showing.

“no- please don’t- stop!” you jerk away from his every time the needle gets close to your skin.

“stay still or i’ll slit your throat” he snarls into your ear, and he holds your arm down, jamming the needle into it, making you cry out.

you couldn’t watch as the blood was suctioned out of you into the syringe, but you had to once he yanked it out.

“now, i’ll be back” he smiles at you one last time before another guy walks in, coming up beside the guy that just took your blood.

“do what you want, just don’t kill her, he said he wanted her alive” he looks back to you. “a few cuts and scrapes will be no big deal” he waves his hand, pocketing the syringe and leaving.

you stare at the floor, praying that this guy isn’t actually going to do anything to you, and like always you’re proved wrong.

the guy walks behind you to the tray of sharp objects and you let another tear drop into your lap.

you’re breathing quickens as you hear footsteps coming back to you.

“hey, man you don’t have to do this” you nervously smile at him. “i- i have money- i’ll give you anything just please don’t-“ you get cut off by the sudden knife to your throat.

“you’re going to listen to me very carefully” he says quietly.

“every sound you make, is a letter i carve into your skin, for it?” you don’t move or say anything in fear of him actually pressing the knife deeper into your neck.

“i said, got it?” he yanks on your hair as hard as he can which makes you nod.

he lets go of your hair, knife off of your throat but still in hand, and you squeeze your eyes shut once you see his hand ball up into a fist.

it took a second to register the pain in your cheek, and it took everything you had not to make any sort of noise.

“hm. surprising, but don’t get your hopes up, you won’t last long” he chuckles, punching you hard in the stomach, and of course you cried out unintentionally.

your head shot up to the man, who had a grin on his face, and he turned to the arm that hadn’t been touched yet, turning it over so that your palm was face up.

“no no no no- please” you let another tear fall, but all you get is the man laughing in return.

“don’t scream too loud, you might wake the dead” he continues chuckling, pressing the knife into your skin while you let out a wail of pain.

“NO STOP- DON’T DO THIS PLEASE” you could get any more words out after that, all that was heard was your screams and sobs.

the first letter was an ‘h’. and you could only imagine what he was going to carve into you next.

you hoped it wouldn’t get to that point, but not everything goes your way, now does it?

~~~

it took longer than expected for moon knight and khonshu to find you, but as long as they did they would try their absolute hardest to get you back home safe.

jake was in control at the moment, since marc and steven were too out of mind to function properly.

jake knew how to ignore that feeling and get through what he needed to.

he landed on the roof of a dirty old warehouse, peeking over the side and seeing two men outside the main doors.

cursing to himself, he gets back up and is alarmed to see another guy on the roof, facing right at him.

he had a dark red suit on, the helmet having little horns on it.

jake pulled the crescent blades off his chest, preparing for a sudden attack, but the guy put his hands up in surrender.

“you’re here for y/n, aren’t you?” the man in red asks.

“what’s it to you?” jake shoots back, making the man in red scoff.

“listen, i’m here to help you.” he tells the moon knight. “i made a promise, and i’d like to keep it” he says and jake sighs.

“fine” he starts. “but if you turn out to be lying i’ll kill you”

“fair”

“now where’s the fastest way into this place?”

~~~

only a half an hour had passed and there were already five letters carved into your arm.

‘h’

‘a’

‘r’

‘o’

we’re the letters.

the taste and smell of blood made you feel like throwing up, but another sound and another round of screaming would rip up your throat even more.

it wasn’t just the carvings in your skin that were your injuries, it was also the hits you’ve taken.

your nose was purple, bleeding from both of your nostrils, bruises littered all over cheeks and a bleeding cut on your forehead.

the blood coming from your nose dripped down your chin, falling with the million tears you’ve shed.

the salty liquid stung the bruises on your cheeks, but it also washed away the blood.

“one more” the man spits onto the ground. “one more and then we are going to to the same to the other arm”

you don’t say anything, knowing he’d finish what he started.

“what? no more snarky insults?” the man hold the bloodied knife to your face, right under your eye.

you take a few shaky breaths, shaking your head.

the man huffs and pokes your bottom lip with the sharp tool.

“i wonder how loud you’d scream if i cut out your tongue” he says casually, and you regret the gasp you let out.

“there it is” he chuckles, digging the sharp edge of the knife into your arm once again, and this time you only let out raspy sobs.

‘w’ the word was finished

he looks you dead in the eye. “to remind you what you are” he spat, throwing the knife aside.

the guy who took your blood then came in with a few papers in his hands.

“yoo-hoo! i have the results” he says chirpily. you glare at him as he waves off the man who just beat you senseless.

“aw, i’m sorry dear i didn’t know he’d actually leave you on the brink of death” he winces.

“anywho, these are further proof that what i told you is correct” he shoves the paper in your face, revealing that you are in fact, blood related to arthur harrow.

“no..” you choke out, shaking your head, your eyes darting around the room.

“yes” he takes the papers back, crumpling them up and tossing them aside.

“now, he’d like to meet you, so wait here” he begins to leave.

“but he’s dead” you rasp out, the man stopping and turning to you.

“he is.” he starts. “we had a human sacrifice and now he’s possessing the body” he turns to leave again and you feel sick to your stomach.

‘human sacrifice..?’

harrows followers would gladly sacrifice themselves to bring him back, even if its possession of a dead body.

the door opens again, and a sickly looking guy walks in and gasps.

“it’s really her” a voice says, not possibly the same one this dead guy could’ve had.

“i told her i’d find you” he sits down in the chair in front of you and you tense and look away.

he sighs. “look at me, y/n” he says, and you only do it in fear of getting cut again if you don’t.

he smiles at you. “don’t be scared, i just want to talk with you” you still don’t say anything.

he sighs again. “you know, i really loved your mother” he suddenly says and you look at him in shock.

“it was so hard for me to watch the life flash out of her eyes” he shakes his head solemnly and you begin to get angry.

“go to hell” to grit out and harrow laughs.

“oh, y/n. i’m already there” the smile faded from his face as a clatter is heard from outside the room.

you hear a man yell and hope that steven, marc, and jake had found you.

“MARC! STEVEN!” you yell as loud as you can, harrow shooting his eyes to you in a panic.

“no, you don’t need them” he shakes his head and you struggle against the ropes again.

“JAKE!” was the last thing you could get out before you were hit in the face by the guy from before.

“stay quiet, or i’ll send you home in a body bag” he points at you and everyone in the room rushes out, but not before harrow gives one last nod to you before the body drops in front of you.

you stayed quiet out of fear, hoping it was in fact moon knight out there.

you hear the door open once again, and you shoot your eyes to it in terror.

a man in a dark red suit starts coming towards you slowly.

you struggle again, but don’t say anything.

“shh, it’s okay i’m getting you out of here” he holds his arms out towards you and feels for your arms.

“moon knight is out there getting rid off them” he assures you and you nod.

he takes a dagger out of one of the holsters on his thigh and quickly cuts through all the ropes.

he slips the dagger back in the holster and helps you up carefully, leading you out of the room and around the edges of the building to the exit.

it was all a blur. you knew it was jake fighting all those guys, you’d recognize that rage anywhere.

right before you two make it out, you unwrap the things around your wrists and slowly line up your hand with a light above where all the bad guys are.

you use all the energy left in you to shoot that web at it, and once it sticks you yank it down, all the bad guys getting squished under it while jake got out of the way in time.

the man in red had an arm around your shoulder, while jake rushed over to you.

“oh my god, are you okay?” he takes your face in his hands and you stare at the glowing eyes in shock.

you notice how the suit changed, steven fronting out of panic, the mask coming off.

“oh lord, what did they do to you” he pulls you into a gentle hug, stroking the back of your head while you just stare straight ahead.

“let’s get out of here, i-“

“if you need a place to lay low, i’d be more than happy to let you guys stay in my hotel room” the man in red offers.

steven nods at him. “if you don’t mind”

“only if you don’t mind company” the man says, and you just stand there with your eyes closed.

“let’s get going then” steven nods at the man, and the rest of the trip was another blur.

~~~

you ended up back at the hotel room the red guy was talking about, steven still carrying you since you didn’t respond to anything.

you snapped out of it, and saw two familiar faces.

“lawyers” is all you say, pointing at the two sitting next to each other on the couch opposite to you and steven.

“that’s right” steven says quietly. “will you let me clean you up now?” he asks and you give him a confused face.

“you didn’t let me earlier” he answers for you.

“how long have we been here?” you ask him.

steven sighs and looks down. “almost an hour. you were just staring into space, you wouldn’t answer to anything” he says quickly.

“oh.. m’ sorry” you shake your head.

“don’t apologize, come on” steven gets up and you do too, following him to the bathroom.

you audibly gasp when you see yourself in the mirror. “i didn’t know it was this bad” you shake your head, turning away from the mirror.

steven sighs shakily and nods for you to hop up on the counter. “woah, you actually want me to sit on a counter?” you chuckle to yourself, using humor to distract from the pain.

steven looks at you worriedly as you push yourself up on the counter. “are you feeling alright?” he asks quietly.

“yep” you sigh. “can you do me a favor?” you ask and steven nods.

“just forget about that.. for now at least.. or forever i- i mean that’d be nice” you chuckle again.

steven smiles sadly at you. “i can do that.. just…. if you need us we’re here” you nod at him.

“marc’s going to take the body now, is that okay?” steven asks you carefully while you nod with a tight lipped smile.

the first thing marc does when he fronts is take your face into his hands, pressing his forehead to yours.

“i’m so glad you’re okay” he says, and you put your hands over his.

he doesn’t say anything else, he just yanks the hand towel off the hook and runs cold water over it.

he could barely look at you. it broke his heart seeing you like this, and he felt it was kind of his fault.

he should’ve checked in with you, he should’ve been there.

but he wasn’t.

and nothing could change that.

“how was your day?” you ask out of nowhere as marc brings the towel up to your face.

“you know, before the whole..” you wave your arm around.

“it’s was fine” he says stiffly and you give him a look as he wipes the blood away from your nose.

“just forget about it” you snap at him unintentionally. “just.. please don’t treat me like some.. some little kid, i’m fine i’m just a little banged up” you shrug, marc still wiping the blood away.

“this is a little more than ‘banged up’, kid” he offers a shaky smile.

“just say the first thing that comes to mind when you think of me” you say and marc responds immediately.

“pop tart thief”

you snort, and that makes marc let out a chuckle as well.

“see, this isn’t so bad” you shrug.

marc rolls his eyes and loves the towel down to your arm, to where he looks right back up at you.

“..apparently it’s to remind me of who i really am” you say dramatically.

“i’m lucky it only takes up a tiny part of my arm, so the scars shouldn’t be too visible” you tell marc.

“what are you, some kind of scar expert?”

“yeah, it’s an elective”

“you’re not even in school right now”

“…”

you and marc share a short laugh before he starts cleaning it off.

“you’re sure you don’t want to talk about it?” he asks.

you nod in confidence. “i’m sure”

marc nods and continues cleaning you up, and by the time he’s done, you’re tired.

and by tired i mean exhausted. why wouldn’t you be?

you were leaning against marc, legs wrapped around his waist as you were still sat on the counter.

“come on, let’s get you to bed” marc lifts you up effortlessly, taking you back to the living area where only matt remains.

“can i stay with you?” you murmur, hanging onto marc as if your life depends on it.

“of course” he responds, carefully sitting down back where he was before, looking to matt.

“thank you for letting us stay” marc thanks him, and gets a smile from the blind man.

“anytime”

marc then thinks for a second. “why are you here?” he asks matt.

he points to you, who was already fast asleep while still hanging onto marc.

“why?”

matt sighs. “i made a promise to someone” he starts. “i needed to find her to make sure i kept it” he says.

marc nods in understanding, pressing a light kiss to the side of your head.

“you don’t have to stay up” marc says tiredly.

“you sure?” matt says, moving to get up with the stick he was holding.

marc nods.

“goodnight then, glad you’re both okay” matt starts waking slowly towards one of the rooms.

“you too” marc mutters.

matt left the room completely, leaving marc to stuff his face into your hair and breath in shakily.

he couldn’t sleep that night. none of them could. well, they assumed jake wasn’t but they didn’t know because he wouldn’t respond to them.

steven and marc agreed to try and keep everything normal, like this never happened because you were okay.

you were okay. you were fine.

you would be perfect as long as you had your dads.

marc, jake, and steven.

~~~

A/N : omfg sorry i made it so dark it just kinda happened. also sorry it’s late, i was out boating today.

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wistfulweaverwoman · 10 months

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My URL is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Anne Shirley, specifically when she play acts as the Lilymaid, Elaine, from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem, The Lady of Shalott.

Her annoyance that Gilbert Blythe of all people should find her clinging to the pylons and rescue her, and worse that her friends should find it so romantic, endears this scene to me. It’s one of my most favorites from the entire series, right up there with “Rilla MY Rilla?”.

Wistfulweaverwoman specifically comes from the line “there she weaves by night and day, a magic web with colors gay”, while my AO3 is Lilymaid.

Here is the poem in its entirety:

The Lady of Shalott (1842)

BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

Part I

On either side the river lie

Long fields of barley and of rye,

That clothe the wold and meet the sky;

And thro' the field the road runs by

To many-tower'd Camelot;

And up and down the people go,

Gazing where the lilies blow

Round an island there below,

The island of Shalott.

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,

Little breezes dusk and shiver

Thro' the wave that runs for ever

By the island in the river

Flowing down to Camelot.

Four gray walls, and four gray towers,

Overlook a space of flowers,

And the silent isle imbowers

The Lady of Shalott.

By the margin, willow veil'd,

Slide the heavy barges trail'd

By slow horses; and unhail'd

The shallop flitteth silken-sail'd

Skimming down to Camelot:

But who hath seen her wave her hand?

Or at the casement seen her stand?

Or is she known in all the land,

The Lady of Shalott?

Only reapers, reaping early

In among the bearded barley,

Hear a song that echoes cheerly

From the river winding clearly,

Down to tower'd Camelot:

And by the moon the reaper weary,

Piling sheaves in uplands airy,

Listening, whispers " 'Tis the fairy

Lady of Shalott."

Part II

There she weaves by night and day

A magic web with colours gay.

She has heard a whisper say,

A curse is on her if she stay

To look down to Camelot.

She knows not what the curse may be,

And so she weaveth steadily,

And little other care hath she,

The Lady of Shalott.

And moving thro' a mirror clear

That hangs before her all the year,

Shadows of the world appear.

There she sees the highway near

Winding down to Camelot:

There the river eddy whirls,

And there the surly village-churls,

And the red cloaks of market girls,

Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,

An abbot on an ambling pad,

Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,

Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad,

Goes by to tower'd Camelot;

And sometimes thro' the mirror blue

The knights come riding two and two:

She hath no loyal knight and true,

The Lady of Shalott.

But in her web she still delights

To weave the mirror's magic sights,

For often thro' the silent nights

A funeral, with plumes and lights

And music, went to Camelot:

Or when the moon was overhead,

Came two young lovers lately wed:

"I am half sick of shadows," said

The Lady of Shalott.

Part III

A bow-shot from her bower-eaves,

He rode between the barley-sheaves,

The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves,

And flamed upon the brazen greaves

Of bold Sir Lancelot.

A red-cross knight for ever kneel'd

To a lady in his shield,

That sparkled on the yellow field,

Beside remote Shalott.

The gemmy bridle glitter'd free,

Like to some branch of stars we see

Hung in the golden Galaxy.

The bridle bells rang merrily

As he rode down to Camelot:

And from his blazon'd baldric slung

A mighty silver bugle hung,

And as he rode his armour rung,

Beside remote Shalott.

All in the blue unclouded weather

Thick-jewell'd shone the saddle-leather,

The helmet and the helmet-feather

Burn'd like one burning flame together,

As he rode down to Camelot.

As often thro' the purple night,

Below the starry clusters bright,

Some bearded meteor, trailing light,

Moves over still Shalott.

His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd;

On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode;

From underneath his helmet flow'd

His coal-black curls as on he rode,

As he rode down to Camelot.

From the bank and from the river

He flash'd into the crystal mirror,

"Tirra lirra," by the river

Sang Sir Lancelot.

She left the web, she left the loom,

She made three paces thro' the room,

She saw the water-lily bloom,

She saw the helmet and the plume,

She look'd down to Camelot.

Out flew the web and floated wide;

The mirror crack'd from side to side;

"The curse is come upon me," cried

The Lady of Shalott.

Part IV

In the stormy east-wind straining,

The pale yellow woods were waning,

The broad stream in his banks complaining,

Heavily the low sky raining

Over tower'd Camelot;

Down she came and found a boat

Beneath a willow left afloat,

And round about the prow she wrote

The Lady of Shalott.

And down the river's dim expanse

Like some bold seër in a trance,

Seeing all his own mischance—

With a glassy countenance

Did she look to Camelot.

And at the closing of the day

She loosed the chain, and down she lay;

The broad stream bore her far away,

The Lady of Shalott.

Lying, robed in snowy white

That loosely flew to left and right—

The leaves upon her falling light—

Thro' the noises of the night

She floated down to Camelot:

And as the boat-head wound along

The willowy hills and fields among,

They heard her singing her last song,

The Lady of Shalott.

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,

Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,

Till her blood was frozen slowly,

And her eyes were darken'd wholly,

Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.

For ere she reach'd upon the tide

The first house by the water-side,

Singing in her song she died,

The Lady of Shalott.

Under tower and balcony,

By garden-wall and gallery,

A gleaming shape she floated by,

Dead-pale between the houses high,

Silent into Camelot.

Out upon the wharfs they came,

Knight and burgher, lord and dame,

And round the prow they read her name,

The Lady of Shalott.

Who is this? and what is here?

And in the lighted palace near

Died the sound of royal cheer;

And they cross'd themselves for fear,

All the knights at Camelot:

But Lancelot mused a little space;

He said, "She has a lovely face;

God in his mercy lend her grace,

The Lady of Shalott."

#also wistfulweaverwoman is a nod to my love of writing #to weave magical stories #also reminds me of the moirai weaving the threads of life #wistfulweaverwoman #lilymaid #anne of green gables #anne shirley

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age-of-moonknight · 1 year

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History of the Vestments (Part II)

Long post incoming! :D Here are the rest of my random thoughts on 616!Moon Knight's costumes up through modern comics. As I was going through the material for this post, it normatively felt like there were a lot more artists drawing Moon Knight around the same period of time but with slightly different styles, so unfortunately this definitely isn't an exhaustive collection; it kind of ended up being a little less ontological and a bit more of a tour of some of my favorite points along the timeline (RIP my academic credibility).

1. The Skinny Peaked Hood Era

Although it was probably more indicative of artist David Finch's style than perhaps how Moon Knight's hood was actually supposed to be perceived, I do find it interesting that the markedly longer and thinner peak in the hood distinctive of Mr. Finch's work started to bleed into other artists' interpretation of Moon Knight around this time.

Moon Knight (Vol. 5/2006), #5

For example, there is this comic with art by Arthur Adams and Walden Wong.

Hulk (vol. 2/2008), #8

Another interesting characteristic that was especially emphasized during this period was the cloak's volume, which was expanded to create such wonderfully dramatic panels as this one by artist Jefte Palo:

Moon Knight (vol. 5/2006), #29

Other artists around this same time period, such as Mark Texeira and Javier Saltares respectively, chose to emphasize other elements, instead adding more prominent crescent details on the bracers, boots, and belt. (This definitely confirmed for me that the correct answer to the question "how many crescents are on Moon Knight's suit at any given time?" is "yes")

Moon Knight (vol. 5/2006), #17

Moon Knight (vol. 5/2006), #24

2. Armored, High-Tech Jake Lockley

With a new series and artist, Vengeance of the Moon Knight and Jerome Opeña respectively, the Moon Knight suit once again got a new look, featuring a new crescent logo design on the chest plate and what looks to be, in my opinion, more "futuristic" armor. The designs of the spaulders, bracers, and boots have been altered to include more elongated crescents and the armor overall appears to be more extensive and intensive to put on (necessitating the very post-Iron Man (2008) suiting up scene hahaha). Furthermore, there's also the addition of the firearm holsters, which is a marked development from the Moon Knight of the 1980's who largely tried to avoid firearms.

Cover for Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2009), #1

Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2009), #7

Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2009), #4

One other interesting detail that I noticed becoming more prevalent around this time is the inclusion of more noticeable seams, especially along the sides of the mask (which frankly reminds me of Fantomex hahaha), as seen in this panel with art by Juan Jose Ryp.

Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2009), #9.

But to be honest, this period was a bit of a free-for-all when it came to design, with some people like artist Bong Dazo really focusing on the details....

Shadowland: Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2010), #2

....others like Mike Deodato Jr. and Will Conrad going with a more "classic" look...

Secret Avengers (Vol. 1/2010), #10

...and others still sort of splitting the difference, as seen with Graham Nolan’s work...

Captain America: Hail Hydra (Vol. 1/2011), #5

3. Meleev’s Take

Moon Knight (Vol. 6/2011), #8

Maleev’s work on volume 6 leaned more towards the “understated” end of the spectrum, with no decoration on the bracers and boots and a belt that frankly reminds me of the sort of the thing Spider-Man would keep under his suit to carry his web cartridges (and of course, there’s all the other costume weapons/accessories that came with this volume hahaha).

Moon Knight (Vol. 6/2011), #9

4. Precursor to Mr. Knight????

Now this was an interesting (re)discovery: apparently in Secret Avengers #19 (a personal favorite issue of mine) with art by Michael Lark, Moon Knight's undercover stint as a civilian ends with him wearing a combo that is very similar to what Mr. Knight would wear in his debut in an issue published three years later. Just a fun little bit of trivia.

Secret Avengers (Vol. 1/2010), #19.

5. Ladies and Gentlemen, THE Mr. Knight

Moon Knight (Vol. 7/2014), #1

Perhaps one of THE most iconic looks for Moon Knight, Declan Shalvey’s Mr. Knight was described as a respectable public persona who could interact with official authorities, unlike the vigilante Moon Knight, and with such a smart looking three-piece suit, he definitely looks the part. In this particular panel, I especially like the crescent details on the buttons and cuffs.

5. That One Black Suit

Moon Knight (Vol. 7/2014), #2

I uuuuuh actually already wrote a whole post breaking this suit down, so you can find that here, if you like hahaha

6. Ghost Ripper Armor

Moon Knight (Vol. 7/2014), #3

If Mr. Knight is for respectable, above-board business and the Moon Knight armor is for beating up crooks in alley ways, this here armor is for the more mystical elements Moon Knight might need to deal with. While most prominently featured in Shalvey’s work and throughout volume 7, it has popped up in two issues of Moon Knight: Black, White & Blood, first in a story drawn by Akande Adedotun and then in a story with art by Leonardo Romero.

7. Lockley????

Moon Knight (Vol. 7/2014), #8

This one isn’t revolutionary so much as it just haunts me personally. This appearance by an alter only referred to as “Lockley” (Jake Lockley??? although some argue that this may be another alter???) is only found in this issue with art by Greg Smallwood. It features the volume 7 black suit sans the cowl and with the addition of a white mask and honestly, the whole lack of information surrounding this incident just insures that at least I will forever lie awake thinking about it hahaha

8. Bemis Era

Cover for Moon Knight (Vol. 8/2016), #189

The initial artist for the Bemis run, Jacen Burrows, continued the trend of keeping the Moon Knight suit fairly simple in design and monochromatic in color. Some elements I do appreciate, however, are the subtle change in shape of the bracers while the straps across the inner arm still mimic the banding of earlier designs. Furthermore, I just find the use of white lenses surrounded by black, as opposed to the typical glowing blue or slightly less common red, to be an interestingly distinctive artist’s choice.

Moon Knight (Vol. 8/2016), #197

9. MacKay Era

Simply put, I owe artist Alessandro Cappuccio and colorist Rachelle Rosenberg my soul. On my last post about Moon Knight’s suits, there’s a comment about how the body of Marc’s suit was originally supposed to be black while the white was only intended to act as highlights. The classic all-white suit wasn’t adopted until around the West Coast Avengers era due to changes in printing and some readers coming to the conclusion that the suit was white (sort of a Spider-Man 2099 situation where his suit is described in the text as being predominantly black despite looking blue). Mr. Cappuccio seems to be harkening back to that effect and I personally find it very exciting. Depending upon the lighting in a panel, the suit in volume 9 can look almost like the one introduced in volume 7 or it could look almost entirely black…

Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #1

…OR it could look as pure white as people have thought it has been for decades hahaha

Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #8

Add on to that the faint glow effect that’s present even with Mr. Knight's suit and you get a truly otherworldly look perfect for a guy who’s been brought back from the dead a couple times by an Egyptian deity and who will not hesitate to punch a ghost or kill a faery. Or live in a haunted house for that matter.