#steven mackay

[spilladabalia]

The Stooges - Ohio 1970 Live

TV Eye - 1970 (I Feel Alright)

[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

[nowritingonthewall]

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

- Moon Knight (2021) #30 by Jed MacKay

[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]

Sometimes a family is you, a teenage vampire, a tiger lady, another vampire, your brother-from-the-same-egyptian-moon-god-of-vengeance, the two other guys that live in your brain, and a guy who wears a giant pool ball on his head at all times

[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

[therealraewest]

[drifting-pieces-blog-blog]

Jed MacKay you are a GENIUS.

New Moon Knight out today (no major spoilers, I promise).

Moon Knight is dead. GENERALLY there are five issues in every collected trade. We're on issue three and I just figured out what he's doing. Maybe I'm a little slow and this has already been discussed somewhere, but give me this moment.

MacKay has already noted that he is going to be addressing each member of the Midnight Mission in each issue over the loss of Marc. Each issue is named after who is reflecting over their relationship and the loss of Marc. What I didn't realize?

Issue one: Reese

Issue Two: Tigra

Issue Three: Soldier (We are currently here 03/20/24)

Issue Four: Hunter's Moon

If you've been reading the issues as they come out you might have noticed each character is dealing with the loss of Marc in their own way. Reese is convinced he's going to come back. Tigra is enraged and wants revenge and violence. Soldier believes he should have been the one to die and (ITTY BITTY SPOILER) is negotiating with people to stop the pretend Moon Knight. MacKay has already noted in an interview that Badr is sad about the loss of another Fist of Khonshu and that he could be the last Fist of Khonshu without the ability to make more.

Huh. Those are some pretty strong emotions. Wait a minute. What are the five stages of grief?

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. ......But wait a minute... Who's getting the last issue? Who is getting number 5? The most important stage of grief? Who is getting Acceptance?

Here's the real kicker.

I don't think we are getting Acceptance.

You see, a big event is brewing at Marvel. A Marvel Event. This means a huge upheaval in all the comics is about to happen and all side comics are going to have to do tie in responses to the event. But this event has been sneaking into the Moon Knight main plot for some time now.

Ever heard of Blade?

Blade was a HUGE deal back in the day. And since Marvel has Been introducing and reintroducing the comics to the big screen. Blade had his run back in the day, but old fans have been begging for Blade to get rebooted for some time.

And they brought him back to the comics. Specifically... They introduced him into Moon Knight comics when he trained Reese. And then they have been having Vampire plot points for ages.

There's a new event happening called Blood Hunt and Issue 5 and 6 are a direct response to this event. And while it fits in with the plot, there is no direct title name like the other four.

So where is the Acceptance? A run isn't 7 issues long. It's rare to get 6. So either this is a break and a side step to deal with the event and we'll get back to the main plot of figuring out the new Moon Knight identity in issue 7, which would actually be the issue 5 conclusion....

Or....

Who needs Acceptance when the one we grieve isn't dead?

[2dswirl]

Big fan of Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio's Moon Knight run

[chaosherald]

In regards to the announcement of the new run - this? This sounds an awful lot like the teaser description of the "new" Moon Knight.

I don't think we're done with the guys yet. I don't think MacKay is done with them yet. I think we're going to see exactly what a botched resurrection looks like and all the folks Marc has built relationships with are going to have to try and fix it.

And if I'm wrong, this run has been excellent and I trust MacKay enough that I'll continue reading to see where he's going.

[carbon--14]

not putting this on the art blog cuz it’ll probably never get finished but re: that other post, WOE. STEVEN GRANT BE UPON YE

[neverkayzat]

I’m coping.

[traveller-of-the-knight]

Uh... So #30 happened...

Spoilers under the cut

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I NEED MORE MARC AND CO I DIDN'T REALISE THE NEXT MOON KNIGHT WON'T BE HIM!!! BUT- BUT THEY SAID THAT KHONSHU'S SERVICE DOESN'T END AT DEATH SO- SO- WE MIGHT SEE HIM AGAIN? BUT I NEED TO SEE ALL OF THEM NOT JUST MARC!

Do you think he will appear though Badr? Who is now kind of sharing his body with the first moon knight? What if he shares his body with Marc from now on and they're just a new "system" (not really a DID system but you get what I mean)

Or somehow Khonshu breaks free

I mean it's a good ending for his life but...

I NEED TO SEE HIM HAPPY I NEED MORE MARC JAKE AND STEVEN CONTENT!!!!!

Please someone tell me they'll be back 😭😭😭😭

[juhbebbie]

I give you: Steven Grant and his slutty little raised eyebrow