#and even in the opening issues of McKay’s run there’s textual evidence indicating that Marc -
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“An Unquiet Grave,” Moon Knight: City of the Dead (Vol. 1/2023), #4.
Writer: David Pepose; Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira; Inker: Jay Leisten; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit
#Marvel#Marvel comics#Marvel 616#Moon Knight: City of the Dead#Moon Knight comics#latest release#Moon Knight#Marc Spector#when I tell you that I am so endlessly fascinated by the largely uncharted narrative territory that is Marc’s#(potentially quite short if we’re going with Lemire’s more recent timeline) combat service#and what that could mean for the character as a whole#because according to earlier works#and even in the opening issues of McKay’s run there’s textual evidence indicating that Marc -#before any environmental factors such as combat service#and definitely not in conjunction with him developing a better understanding that he is part of a system -#viewed himself as a near inherently violent person#[Mainly I’m thinking of bits of Moon Knight (Vol. 1/1980) no. 37 + Shadowland: Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2010) no. 1#and perhaps most definitively Moon Knight (vol. 9/2021) no. 5’s ‘there was /never/ anything kind or gentle in me’]#but no individual leaves close combat experience such as this unchanged#obviously taking a man’s life had an impact but what I wouldn’t give to know more about what Marc thought this revealed about him#was the fact he could actually take a man’s life a revelation for him or#(closer to what I’m leaning towards) was it a confirmation of his worst fears about himself#that there’s no other factor to blame -neither environmental nor psychological - that he himself was always capable#of great crimes against life#plus (sorry I know I know I’m going on) but I would give a good amount of my personal resources to see Marc’s DD-214#because otherwise I will hold onto with both hands Lemire’s perhaps unintentional indication in Moon Knight (vol. 8/2016) no. 11#that Marc saw combat in Operation Phantom Fury/al-Fajr (‘the second battle of Fallujah’)#because it could just…mean so much for the character#As perhaps first indicated in Lemire’s run the implications surrounding ‘marine combat service’ are drastically different#between the present day and the 1980’s when Moon Knight’s origin was being solidified so yeah…
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