Moon Knight: Second Wind (issue reread + reactions)

Got a Tumblr ask for my thoughts about Moon Knight vol 1 issue #35…and I ended up rereading the thing, and writing a whole mini-essay. Decided it was substantial enough to crosspost!

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Original ask:

thoughts on Moon Knight 35?

It’s the X-men crossover where Steven (and the others but mostly Steven) deal with being wheelchair bound and the reason he is in episode 5: Asylum. As someone who was temporarily chair bound in the psych ward both scenes mean a lot to me.

Also Storm flirts with frenchie, Nightcrawler saves Moon Knight’s life and Bora is such a classic tragic villain and Xavier can read Marc’s mind which we know is not true of most telepaths in Mckay run.

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And the reread/more-or-less-liveblog…

In the comic the guys are using a chair because of a spinal injury (a Comics Injury which comes and goes as the plot demands), and the implication I got from the show was that the asylum put them on meds so strong they couldn’t walk. So I don’t think they’re that directly connected. But it’s nice to have the visual callback.

Marlene being so present and supportive during the hospitalization and physical therapy is extra-depressing compared to how Marc will treat her hospital-grade injury in later runs =(

I don’t think it’s actually Steven fronting for the first chunk. Marlene usually calls them Steven, but that’s just like how Frenchie always calls them Marc, and the diner crew always calls them Jake – even if someone with a different name is fronting, he almost never corrects them.

(More than that, Marc specifically encourages Marlene to call him Steven! Skipping to a later scene, this is one of the issues where he spells out how much he wants to be Steven for her.)

 

( Backing up: The whole “detaching from his personal trauma by obsessing over how to catch the bad guy” thing is classic Marc... )