Well, this issue wraps up the Down South story-line, but . . I gotta say, I thought the whole thing was a bit . . anti-climatic. Moon Knight has switched from his Marc Spector identity to that of Jake Lockely. He's been hanging out down Mexico way trying to stay out of trouble. The problem is . . I don't care if it Mooney, or Marc, or Jake . . trouble always comes looking for him. He took what he thought was a simple job, retrieve a man's daughter who was illegally incarcerated in a Mexican jail. But of course nothing is ever that simple. It turns out this Alcantara guy is actually a drug lord. He's looking to get into bed with the Russian mob. So he plans on killing his daughter for them to show them his strength. Kind of twisted. Huh? Anyways, Moonie gets her out, but before he delivers her he finds out this information. But, Alcantara thinks that something might go wrong so he hires this hit-team, whom think of themselves as professional wrestlers, and call themselves the Zapata brothers. Alcantara wants the boys to retrieve his daughter from Jake, and then kill him. They also find out the true story and decide to team-up with Jake instead. That's where we ended last issue. So the 3 of them make it to Alcantara's compound. The problem is, somebody got there before them. Everybody is slaughtered ripped apart . . basically just torn to shreds. As Moonie surveys the compound he comes upon the Punisher. He's drinking Alcantara's liquor. The problem is . . the Punisher didn't do this either. The Punisher leaves, and Moonie continues looking for Alcantara. He finally finds him and he's scared to death . . but not of him. He scared of the other guy . . the Aztec kind of looking guy wearing the mask and carrying the big ax on his back, Toltec. That's the guy who chopped up all of these people. Moonie and the guy stare each other down for a second, and then . . Moonie leaves. He knows that Toltec will take care of Alcantara, so . . why should he get involved. When he goes outside he finds that the Zapata's, working off of information from the daughter, are raiding Alcantara's cash reserves in his basement. They're pulling out duffel-bags full of money . . filling their whole pick-up truck. Later they, and the daughter, say their goodbyes to Jake and give him a couple of duffel-bags as a parting gift. And that was it. The most action Mooney had was when he was threatening Alcantara . . before he realized that Toltec was hanging overhead waiting his turn. Even the epilogue was boring. Jake is sitting in his hotel room, drinking tequila and sitting next to his pile of money when a news story comes across the TV about Norman Osborn. He's watching the news intently and is coming to a decision. He pours the tequila down the toilet and says, "I'm going home. Only this time . . alone." Ummm . . . ok . . . thanks. Really . . I don't understand why this story couldn't have wrapped up last issue. This one was a real let down. Mike Benson is still writing it, so I don't really understand why this issue was so different from all of the rest. This was basically the wrap-up issue for this story-line, but . . like I said, nothing really happened. I'm also not thrilled with Jefte Palo's art. It's . . ok. It just doesn't really do anything for me. I don't know . . I just hope the next issue is better. If there is a next issue. Nothing's listed.
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