After rescuing his friends through apparent betrayal, the Midnight Sons now team up with all of the New Yorkers previously consumed by the Mansion Ravenous. Together, they take on the Mansion Ravenous as the new Midnight Militia.
This review is brought to you by Nerd Initiative’s Megan and Shawn!
Creative Team
Writer: Jed MacKay
Artist: Dev Pramanik
Color Artist: Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer: Cory Petit
Cover Penciller: José Luis Soares Pinto
Cover Inker: Jonas Trindade
Cover Color Artist: Rachelle Rosenberg
Writing
Megan: With everyone rightfully angry at Moon Knight for his questionable plan that put their lives in danger, the emotions are high but the stakes are still higher. In Marc Spector: Moon Knight #9, Marc got his family back but the job was far from over. Now they have to find a way to escape the haunted house and destroy it once and for all. The team goes at it, beating the house like it owes them money and holding nothing back. However, no matter how hard they hit, it’s just not enough. Of course, that’s until Clea does what she does best and uses her magic to find the vulnerable spot to hit. You’d think that would bring the house down, but it doesn’t. What it does is bring Moon Knight to come face to face with the capturer of his family. And now, the real fight is on.
Jed MacKay has done it again and given us a Moon Knight story that keeps you on the edge of your seat and by the end of it, you want more. I have loved everything he’s done with the Midnight Sons has been fantastic and I hate to see that time over with. MacKay has brought together a ragtag team of misfits together that doesn’t usually work well with others, and made them work brilliantly together. I could not be more happy with how this arc has turned out!
Shawn: Moon Knight is nothing if not dependably wild. Marc Spector: Moon Knight #9 puts the crazy front and center, with Marc having to put up the fight of his life. While the Midnight Sons and the new Midnight Militia may be free from the Mansion Ravenous control, MacKay makes it clear that Marc understands it can’t be allowed to just flee to another world. I love the pure righteous anger that MacKay gives us from Marc in this issue. We know that Marc has been through the wringer and that he gets mad, but I love seeing the fight come out of him as it does in this issue.
MacKay handled the Midnight Sons perfectly. It wasn’t just some kumbaya team-up moment where they get together and everything is okay. There were actual stakes for this team. There was betrayal, anger, and frustration. MacKay wrote this series of characters together well. They functioned as a team while keeping Blade, Clea, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, and of course, Moon Knight true to their characters. We were then rewarded with a satisfying conclusion to the arc in the best way possible.
Art
Megan: I don’t know what else can be said about the work that Dev Pramanik, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Cory Petit that hasn’t been said before. Pramanik and his incredible line work? The fact that he’s able to draw these characters in a way that makes them feel like they’re popping off the panels? That still rings true and somehow ever truer in this issue. Moon Knight and Daredevil are two standouts that easily become the automatic focal points of every page they’re not.
How about Rachelle Rosenberg? The fact that her colors bring so much life to the pages of Marc Spector: Moon Knight #9 that you forget the team is stuck inside a haunted house that’s trying to eat them. Cory Petit and his ability to capture the different personalities in the story and provide a perfect flow of dialogue throughout the issue? These artists prove how talented they are issue after issue and I’ll die on the hill of this run being the most beautiful comic run out there right now.
Shawn: I’m just running out of superlatives for this visual team at the moment. Dev Pramanik’s line work has been spectacular and the closeup face shot in this issue that makes up a panel is one of the most creative uses of panel work that we’ve seen from him yet. Despite the darkness of the setting for this issue, Pramanik makes the characters pop of the cage with crisp clean line work.
Rachelle Rosenberg just makes every single page pop. Whether it’s Clea using her magic or members of the Midnight Militia fighting back, Rosenberg’s colors add so much weight to these pages. Her work literally makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up as you’re seeing it. Cory Petit guides everyone through the story smoothly. That’s no easy task as this creative team continuously moves beyond the boundary of traditional panel shapes and organization.
Final Thoughts
Megan: 10/10 – Marc Spector: Moon Knight #9 kept me on the edge of my seat, not knowing what’ll happen next. This has been another excellent issue by the creative team and I am sat and excited for the next one!
Shawn: /10 – Marc Spector: Moon Knight #9 brings the most satisfying end possible to what may be the best story arc we’ve gotten out of a Moon Knight comic in a generation. This creative team is untouchable. From cover to cover the fire, energy, and connection from this team is palpable.
Overall Grade: 10/10
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