One looking into him possibly murdering a score of people in NYC and branding the people with his Moon-emblem. The other, trying to determine how and why he managed to get a Registration card when he's a sociopathic murderer in the first place.

Okay.

Pretty much exactly the same as last issue. Carson Knowles (Black Spectre) is still doing his best to mess with Marc's life, but this time, HE'S IN A BLOODY COSTUME.

Marc gets told by big bad Tony Stark that he can't play dress-up anymore, so he goes home and whines and gets made fun of by his demonic persona. Bushman is still in the book boys and girls. And he's still playing behind the scenes. Do you think he might have something to do with the Black Spectre being as popular and powerful as he all of a sudden is?

If you said yes, give yourself a cookie.

This book has lost all steam. Marc is a whiny little brat who swears and attempts to curse his way out of every situation. If he is supposed to be Marvel's answer to Batman (which he most certainly is not as of this last arc here), then he really is a whiny little spoiled brat. Maybe he's everything Marvel thinks Batman should be.

There is actually a touchy-feely scene between Marc and his pusher-man (around since at least the first issue of this run) who continually calls him Jake (Lockley) and berates him for being a little brat. Does all the things the reader wants to do, and yet all that it manages to do is get Marc to face his demons. He isn't being pushed along by Khonshu, he's doing it all by his widdle self.

Ugh.

Finally, the best thing about this book is the art. Mark and Javier work wonders with just about every character they draw here (so long as its grim and gritty, they got it going on), and sadly, I spoke with Javier recently at a local con, and he advised that this was his last story-arc on the book. Which just sucks nuts. If that means Tex is off it as well, then color me uninterested in this long-term. And judging from recent solicits, Mike Deodato Jr is on Ish 20. So I MIGHT be buying that (only because one of my other favorite Marvel horror characters, Werewolf by Night, is in it). But Mike has always been completely hit or miss with me. So I'm thinking it will be a miss.