In honour of the anniversary of Moon Knight season one and in accordance to my celebration last year, i am bringing back Moon Knight Wednesday and Thursday as Moon Knight Saturday
This year, i want to focus on the neat little comic easter eggs we were given throughout the show! Starting with...
Werewolf by Night #32 (1972)
this was Moon Knights very first appearance! The issue immediately gave him his name and iconic outfit, even if he didn't like it
The story follows Jack Russel, a werewolf, who has frequent trouble with "the committee", a bunch of rich people who want to capture and see a werewolf. This time, they hired a certain Marc Spector to fight and capture Jack for them. This is where we learn the impressive and long list of what Marc has been up to in his life:
They fight, with Moon Knight eventually winning and dragging Jack, now as a werewolf, away from the scene and towards his friend and partner- no other than Frenchie himself
So Werewolf by Night gives us everything all at once:
Marc Spectors military background, painting him as extraordinary, practically invincible and one of the best fighters (i mean, look at the list. What CAN'T he do?)
the origin of both the name and costume
the introduction of Frenchie
plus, interesting and fun fight scenes
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I’ve been wanting to talk about the WebToon “My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me” and why it’s one of my absolute favorite stories just about ever, but haven’t had enough mental presence to go into it all.
(Warning: Romance comic, but amazing slow burn marriage of convenience between two traumatized individuals that is done exceptionally well, and even though you want both sides to spit stuff out you completely empathize with why they’re being respectful and/or still not in a position to recognize they’re falling in love)
But the most recent free episode!!!
🤩🤩🤩
It’s just a small thing, and I can’t even discuss it beyond broad strokes because it involves just about every single spoiler for the metaplot.
But! But!!!!
One thing I love the most about this series is that everyone in it is intelligent.
And not the “good at math smarty smart” kind.
This is not a series where the main character has to do everything because people are chained to their idiot balls.
I’ll say there is a curse involved, and the MC initially is like “Ok, time to do some research on this mystery!”
And then is introduced to the members of the afflicted family who have dedicated their lives to that single thing, becoming doctors in order to treat and research the curse, and the MC is just “Oh, right, they’d have already tried.”
There’s been a theory in the back of my head, never actually mentioned aloud in the series but pretty obvious (in the best way!) given the mechanics of the curse and a recent evolution of it.
In this episode, the female MC hesitantly goes up to her “marriage of convenience” husband and merely suggests this particular theory as he is the one in a position to ask questions…
Well, “suggests,” she brings up the relevant antagonist…
And he calmly goes over all the research he has already done into the matter, evidence for and against, pointing out the things she’s previously brought up that lead him to suspect things and it’s just…
They’re so smart!! They’re so proactive!!!!
The only thing that’s kept me from gushing earlier is a recent revelation that a major character has suffered sexual trauma in the past.
So please, if respectful depictions of “someone was drugged and put into a traumatizing situation in order to try and force them into marriage” is something you can’t deal with, please know this WebToon is respectful about it but it is a huge part of a character’s backstory and, sadly, the current plot.
If you can handle that, though???
This WebToon is a must read.
Even if you’re not into slow burn romances, even if you think all cishet romances are boring and pointless (which is wrong, btw, from my pan perspective).
The episodic formula sadly seemed to push the earliest episodes into a very rushed pace in order to lay enough plot points to get readers interested.
But once the marriage of convenience happens, this is a masterclass in writing.
On how to make empathetic, relatable characters who make decisions that make sense.
Bad decisions because of believable circumstances, good decisions based upon their own strengths.
In how to integrate clues to a metaplot through the narrative, and also have the characters react naturally to them.
The visual storytelling is also just so so good, you can tell so much about what the characters outside the mc are thinking!
If you haven’t yet and WebToon stuff is your thing, read this series!!!
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