Issue(s): Moon Knight #57
Cover Date: Dec 93
Title: "Black sheep"
Credits:
Terry Kavanagh - Writer
Stephen Platt - Penciler
Stephen Platt - Inker
Sarra Mossoff - Editor

Review/plot:
We left this book with Marlene Alraune falling to her death after being dropped by Seth's demon, hook. She's rescued by, uh, Marc Spector's publicist, Donna Kraft.

Meanwhile, Moon Knight has been gathered by the Goddess along with her other recruits, although she says that she doesn't think Moon Knight will prove worthy.

"The next night", we see Frenchie driving around with the Hellbent demon Agony. Frenchie transforms into Henri Remont, causing Agony to hit the eject button.

She then walks "Less than a mile away" and interrupts Seth getting a blowjob from Hook.

Agony offers her own lifeforce instead.

We then cutaway to a brief retelling of Web of Spider-Man #104-105 from Moon Knight's perspective (oooooooh! so that's what Moon Knight was referencing in those issues!).

Then a demon called Manx attacks the Cadre.

It halts its attack when Chloe Tran shows up.

But then we immediately back to jump back to Moon Knight, who is shouting stuff.

And then... oh i don't fricking know.

Well, at least the issue is over.

I'm legitimately curious if anyone picked this issue up for the tie-in and said, "Hey, this is really great. I'm going to keep following this series." I have doubts that anyone even said, "Hey, i understood this!". I had such a hard time keeping my brain working during this issue with all the Hellbent stuff and the incessant whining that it took me several reads to figure out when this was all meant to take place (and as you'll see in the comments, i still got it wrong).

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This begins soon after the Goddess recruits Moon Knight last issue / Infinity Crusade #1 (and that portion continues directly for Marlene Alraune) but then it jumps ahead to take place during Web of Spider-Man #104-105 / after Infinity Crusade #2. And then it concludes during the hero vs. hero fights in Infinity Crusade #5. Even though this concludes during Infinity Crusade #5, it's one of the few tie-ins for that issue that doesn't end with the nova explosion, so i've placed it closer to Infinity Crusade #5 than the others.

References:

• There are footnotes to Infinity Crusade #1 and Infinity Crusade #2.
  
• See Web of Spider-Man #104-105 for Spider-Man's perspective on these events. Sort of.

Crossover: Infinity Crusade

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Anyone know why this particular issue is so hard to get? It sells for $67.00 on mycomicshop.

Stephen Platt's art again. Hot!

Wow, that's a pretty blatant swipe of McFarlane's splash page from Spider-Man 1!

I've never followed Moon Knight, but I read this issue to see how it tied in to the Web of Spider-Man issues. It's legitimately one of the worst comics I've ever read.

Maybe people look at the art and think it's by MacFarlane or Liefeld? Because it might as well be.

Fnord, note that in the final scan you posted, Wonder Man and Storm are talking like Spider-Woman and Havok are on Paradise Omega. That means that the end of this issue has to take place either at the end of Infinity Crusade 4 or during Infinity Crusade 5. Sorry, fnord- I don't want to force you to look at an issue of Terry Kavanagh's Moon Knight again.

This is an incoherent wreck of an issue, but it goes in three main tie in stages: (I think)

Moon Knight is recruited and Marleen is saved.

Gratuitous crossover with Web of Spider-man which addsnothing

Big battle from Infinity Crusade #5, in which someone has beaten Moonknight senseless in a last ditch attempt to prevent the Moonknight crossover issue which is foiled as Moonknight randomly has his soul stand trial in the cathedral and swipes the last line from the same scene in the Deathlock tie-in issue but without it (or anything else) making sense here) providing enough material for this nonsense to go on sale.

So, it takes place during Infinity Crusade #5 after Moon knight gets knocked out (I think).

But hey, Spider-man's gigantic bottom is funny!

Thanks Michael and Benway. You'll hopefully remember that i did say that it took place after Infinity Crusade #5 when i wrote up the Spider-Man review. But the way he Fzzts out at the end of the Spider-Man portion and is then next seen in that weird limbo where he's shouting at the Goddess made it feel like it was a direct continuation and so took place entirely during the Spider-Man issue. But yeah, i forgot about that final panel which clearly places the end during the hero vs. hero fights in Infinity Crusade #5.

She then walks "Less than a mile away" and interrupts Seth getting a blowjob from Hook.

Sometimes this site feels like Mystery Science Theater 3000 for bad Marvel comic books. If that's the case, with much of early 1990s Moon Knight we are in serious Manos: Hands of Fate territory. Or maybe Red Zone Cuba. It's sort of a toss-up as to which one was worse.