#the man is dying and doing his best to save the city and Khonshu still manages to make it about him

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Terminal Seconds of Moon Knight,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #30.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight vol. 9 #Moon Knight 2021 #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #Khonshu #I always appreciate Mr. Cappuccio but I particularly appreciate how he was able to portray the complex emotion in that second to last panel #because gooooosh can’t believe I get to use this tag again #Khonshu encounter me in the trench #the man is dying and doing his best to save the city and Khonshu still manages to make it about him #because while we don’t get much in the way of Marc’s internal dialogue I feel like we can infer based on other issues in this run #that this time around Marc’s not doing this for Khonshu #there have been many times in Marc’s life where he’s sought Khonshu’s blessing or approval or notice or what have you #- I’m thinking (as much as I usually don’t like to) about the opening issues of the Huston run - #but this ain’t one of those times (it just happens to protect travelers of the night so Khonshu can claim it is all) #but yeah it’s the last panel for me #that dubious honor of having Khonshu be proud of him and the complex relationship that he and the whole system has with Khonshu #even though Khonshu has habitually tried to colonize his psyche and used him as a disposable pawn #there’s just something in Moon Knight comics pertaining to complex intra- and interpersonal relationships #with one’s own spirituality and sense of self and organized religion and fathers and distant gods #that I just cannot bring myself to shut up about (…unfortunately for the Moon Knight tumblr tag and as you may have figured #based on the metaphorical ink I’ve spilled on this blog)