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This
is the latter, unfortunately. Not much happens.
Marc and Marlene talk at a coffee shop and he
learns that she's recently spoke to the villain
of the story, Carson Knowles (the Black Spectre)
and Marc acts completely stalker-wife-beater on
Marlene almost forcing her to tell him what's
going on and what they spoke of. The god,
Khonshu (still in the form of Bushman) doesn't
do hardly anything this issue, and everything
comes to a head at the end with SHIELD finding
another dead body killed by the copycat and
finally, FINALLY, Inept Man (Iron Man) decides
to show up for the party.
But
if only Tony Stark had listened to the ONE BEAT
COP who knew it was a copycat because HE JUST
KNEW Moon Knight wouldn't do that. Couple that
with strange opening page cameos from Condoleeza
Rice and Donald Rumsfeld and Larry King and you
get what this book is all about, clichés. It
would do better off with quick shot story-arcs.
One to two issue arcs, quick in and out. Or take
a page from Garth Ennis' Punisher MAX series. Go
balls to the wall. Make this Marvel's f-ed up
version of Batman and just run with it.
As
it is now, I sometimes feel ashamed of myself
for buying this book. When things happen, it's
great. But ever since Huston switched over to
co-plotter, it's just circling the drain for the
most part. He has the strong potential to be an
amazingly well plotted character, a Batman-esque
character that has multiple personality
disorder, and yet he's just an arrogant freak
with an anger problem half the time.
Take
a page out of issue 1. Make him the hardass he
should be. Get a more well-defined art team (I
love Tex and Saltares, but I like them better on
Ghost Rider or Dr. Strange). And get this book
back on track. For Khonshu's sake. |