#mackay moon knight

[tiptapricot]

MKcember Day 13: Tzedek and/or Persaverence

(Warning for spoilers and content for the end of Moon Knight 2021 issue #30)

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His throat is warm and tangy. It’s hard to breathe.

“Fthrrr…Khnnshhhhuu…” It is a desperate call, a stubborn one. The shadows sweep in blues and reds around him, intangible as they watch.

“I can do nothing,” Khonshu says. “But you have done this for me, you are mine.”

“I am proud.”

Red, slipping away into an open sea, its flow split from the right path. This is wrong.

Keep going. Hands on his shoulders, warm around his heart. Neon lights and desk lamps and words that urge him forward. He growls under his breath, fervent and stubborn as their pulse hammers. Waning. Slowing. But never stopping.

Their legs ache as they get to their feet. Every inch of their body stings, words soft in a mouthful of numbness that trips as he tries to speak. Sticky teeth. A cloak dripping in evening light. A sunset, perhaps. Ready to bury itself in the warm earth.

This must be done. For all. For us.

The world hums to life, crackling in maddening red. The walls buzz as shouts build from the streets below.

We did not do this for him.

“Shema Ysrael…” Marc whispers. A bubble gurgles free in their throat. “…Adonai eloheinu…” Their breath shivers. “Adonai echad…”

It is a rededication of final breath, a reclamation to hold onto what has slipped. Rest soon. A dry mouth parched to drink.

They squeeze the trigger together, never wavering, and the world around them bursts into fire.

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[age-of-moonknight]

“Systemic Approach (Part Two),” Avengers Unlimited (Vol. 1/2022), Infinity Comic, #64.

Writer: Mat Groom; Penciler and Inker: Caio Majado; Colorist: Pete Pantazis; Letterer: Joe Sabino

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu 2 (2025) by Jed MacKay & Alessandro Cappuccio

Cover: Peach Momoko (variant)

[nowritingonthewall]

You're never alone, remember? You can do this, Marc.

- Moon Knight (2021) #30 by Jed MacKay

[nickfuryagentofsword]

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu 1 (2024) by Jed MacKay & Alessandro Cappuccio

Cover: Stephen Platt (variant)

[void-of-unparalled-chaos]

They're brothers your honor

[starsarekind]

So what-- do we hug now or something?

I wanted to redraw a comic panel with Reese (I love you Reese) and Marc but have Marc in the MCU outfit, and then I realized that this was just white on white on white and MAN is that hard to colour. Still, I think I did a pretty alright job :)

Hope you like it! Reese if you see this I'm your number one fan and if Jake tries to take that crown from my head I will-- Anyway. Reese and Soldier supremacy. Also I'm tempted to make 8-Ball fanart low key??!!!

[juhbebbie]

Fucking obsessed with this

[fdelopera]

Musings on the Moon Knight System for the High Holidays

BROKE: Moon Knight System in the comics are Jewish in name only. They’re basically pagan idolaters.

WOKE: Jake is MK System’s spiritual protector in the comics (especially MacKay), and connects the most with their Jewish identity.

BESPOKE: The Moon Knight System are very Jewish, but Marc, Steven, and Jake have a lot of specific religious trauma, and they each connect to their Jewishness in different ways and at different times ... just as most Jews do. Their Jewishness is an intrinsic part of who they are.

At the Rosh Hashanah 2nd day service yesterday, the Rabbi said something that brought Moon Knight System to mind.

During the Malchuyot, Zichronot, and Shofarot prayers, she said this before the Zichronot prayer:

“Jews are all about memory. We tell and retell the stories of our ancestors to link our generations together. We tell the story of the Exodus and redemption, and these are human memories. Here in the Zichronot section, we consider G-d's memory. What we are asking in Zichronot is, "Am I remembered? Is my life in G-d's memory?" And the answer is, yes. Adonai remembers each one of us, every single creature created in G-d's image is seen and noticed.”

And yet, what about those of us who are dissociative? What about those of us whose memory is scattered, fragmented, and traumatized, just like the Jewish people have been throughout our history?

What about those of us whose memory stops at a certain point, just as our family tree goes back only a few generations to those who escaped the pogroms and the Holocaust? Yes, we can trace some of our ancestors across the ocean to the shtetls, and we can search for the deep root systems that our people have grown from, but we know that if we do, we will only find tragedy and death.

For every one of our ancestors who has a gravestone in an intact Jewish cemetery in the Old Country, there are countless others whose roots were cut, who were murdered by Romans and Inquisitors and Cossacks and Nazis, whose bodies were desecrated, and who were never buried in Jewish soil. And yet, even as the Nazis and the Russians and the Spanish and the Romans and so many others tried to erase us from living memory, still we persevered. There are still some branches left. Our cultural memory endures, even though it is fragmented.

And yet, what of us who strain to remember? What of those of us who have high walls instead of doorways, keeping us out? Perhaps we can even see trees growing on the other side, but we cannot enter, not yet. How then can we connect to our past? Must we wander for another 40 years? And on Yom Kippur, how can we atone if remembrance is scattered and hidden like the Lost Tribes of Israel?

I imagine that Marc has wondered thoughts like these from time to time, especially around the High Holidays. Marc wants to think of himself as an apostate. If he’s being particularly edgy, he might even describe himself as an idolater. But I don’t think he is. Marc has a Jewish soul. So does Jake and so does Steven.

And as much as Marc might want to think that he is beyond atonement for the things he’s done, perhaps in quiet moments, he still hopes to atone as best he can. Perhaps some nights, Marc and Jake and Steven share dreams of teshuvah, of repentance, of making amends. With Gena. With Crawley. With Frenchie. And yet, how to even begin?

Perhaps Elias Spector, the Orthodox rabbi, might once have read the following passage on Rosh Hashanah as he spoke to the congregation from the bimah. And even if Marc was dissociating into the ether when he heard these words, sitting as far away from his father as possible, halfway to hiding deep within, the duty of being the Rabbi's son weighing heavy on his shoulders ... perhaps Jake and Steven listened, and they remembered for all of them:

“When a person commits a sin and does not turn in repentance, when that person forgets the sin, Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers. When a person fulfills a commandment by doing a good deed, but forgets about it, Hakadosh Baruch Hu remembers. When a person commits a sin and later turns in repentance by remembering that sin, Hakadosh Baruch Hu grants atonement, and forgets the sin. But when a person fulfills a commandment and is constantly filled with self-praise because of it, Hakadosh Baruch Hu forgets it. What a person forgets, G-d remembers, and what a person remembers, G-d forgets.” -- The Hasidic Master Shmelke of Nikolsberg

Shana tovah and g’mar chatima tovah to the Moon Knight System. May they be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life.

[thedevilsoftruth]

You know you're crazy when you finally see your therapist for the first time in 3 weeks and one of the first things she says to you is, " the last time I saw you, you were very sad that Moon Knight died. "

[sadwetcatmk]

Mackay run sillies

Devils Reign bonus

[tiptapricot]

FINALLY doing some MKcember catch up. These have been a bit fast so not my most polished work, but I’m wanting to do the prompts the justice that I can, so I hope they still land well. Starting on the backlog with:

MKcember Day 11: Chanukah Food and/or Dreidel

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“Marc, keep your hands away from the pan, we have spatulas for a reason.”

Their arm paused over the skillet, Marc’s lips thinning into a frown. “I can just… it’s faster to just flip ‘em,” he muttered. Steven hadn’t been near front for most of the afternoon, but Marc could feel him solid now, a disapproving look echoing forward from somewhere inside.

The Mission, for once, was warm. The kitchen had been pushed a bit wider, the walls and counters accommodating for the extra space needed for pans and dough and sizzling latkes. Jake had done a good amount of the cooking earlier that day, ramped up on the excitement of having the crew all together for dinner that night. He’d whipped together several different donut flavors and a batch of cream cheese blintzes that Marc had already sampled a few of (“And no more!” Steven admonished internally) before slipping off somewhere Marc couldn’t really feel and leaving the rest to him. He was ready to continue what he was doing (the latkes were nicely browned and he wanted to get them even), but Steven was being… Steven.

“Marc, our skin doesn’t need more battery, we get enough of that with the night job. I’d prefer we didn’t recreate second degree burns at home.”

“It doesn’t even hurt, Steven, it’s nothing.”

“Nothing? Marc it’s boiling oil and—”

“Will be fine if we just—“

“Use. A. Spatula.”

Marc sighed, closing his eyes for a moment against the rising headache in their temples, before reaching pointedly over to the utensils. The oil popped and sputtered as he flipped the latkes, the crispy edges gleaming.

“You happy?” he asked.

A wave of good humor pushed forward. “Yes. Our cuticles thank you for the respite.”

Marc huffed. “Alright alright, don’t get shmaltzy with it.”

Steven laughed as he faded back again, and Marc smiled slightly to himself as he continued cooking. He was just getting ready to transfer the food out of the pan when something creaked loudly behind him. He glanced back, eyes scanning the wall until they landed on a much emptier plate of blintzes than had been there before. The wall above the counter rippled in satisfaction.

Marc blanched. “Mission!” he exclaimed.

Jake was going to kill him.

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[age-of-moonknight]

Blood Hunt (Vol. 1/2024), #4.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Pepe Larraz; Colorist: Marte Garcia; Letterer: Cory Petit

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu 1 (2024) by Jed MacKay & Alessandro Cappuccio

Cover: Stephen Platt (variant)

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #1 by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio. Cover by Davide Paratore. Variant covers by (2) Stephen Platt and (3) Aka. Out in October.

"MARC SPECTOR… BACK FROM THE BEYOND! As an avatar and agent of the Egyptian God of the Moon, Khonshu, former mercenary MARC SPECTOR has died and come back to life on more than one occasion. To the ignorant, his fate beyond death's grasp may seem idyllic, but being chosen as a Fist of Khonshu comes with a heavy cost! And, like bones in a street fight, Marc Spector, and the multitudes he contains, may be about to break!"

[vertigoartgore]

2024's Vengeance of the Moon Knight Vol.2 #3 (LGY : #233) variant cover by cover artist Dike Ruan.