Vengeance of the Moon Knight #5 - Marvel

I liked this issue. But . . it also wasn't as dark as some of the previous ones. I know that the 'darkness' is the nature of this character, but . . it seems like with everything that Marc/Jake has been through in the last few years . . the guy has got to get a break somewhere. Right? But now . . now he finds out that it wasn't bad enough that he was hallucinating about Bushman all of the time. Now he finds out that Bushman is alive. He doesn't know what's going on yet, but we saw that the Hood had used his new powers through the Asgardian stones to bring Raoul Bushman back to life. With the sole purpose of making Moon Knight's life hell. And that begins this issue. It was nice to see Frenchie and Crawley back helping Jake out. But of course, through their involvement, he puts both their lives in danger. But by now you'd think that they'd pretty much accept that as part of the job. Anyways, Jake pulls of a neat trick this issue when Bushman fires a rocket at him. It hits the building behind him instead. In order to stop it from collapsing he gets under the one side to hold it up. Obviously the guy doesn't have super-strength, but . . he does have a mechanical suit. So he locks up the joints in it, rather than try to hold up the building through his own strength. Obviously even this isn't going to hold it forever, but he's trying to buy enough time for the people inside to get out. But it also leaves him open for attack by Bushman and his undead army . . I assume. Anyways, while they're distracted, Jake slips out of the costume, leaving it in place holding up the building, and begins fighting the bad guys in his boxers, socks and hood. I think it's the first time I've actually laughed in this book in quite a while. Spider-man shows up at the end of the fight, but he doesn't actually do anything to help him out. Luckily, for Jake, I don't think that Bushman actually wanted to kill him this time. This time I think he just wanted Jake to know that he was around and that he was going to start making his life hell. But Jake's been there . . done that. And right now he really seems to have his act a lot more together than he has recently. Which I'm glad to see. I think it makes for a much more interesting character. I mean what's more creepy? Showing a guy who's losing his mind, having delusions and his life is falling apart? Or, showing a guy who's losing his mind, having delusions, his life is falling apart, but . . he refuses to acknowledge the delusions, and he's acting like everything is normal? In fact . . he's acting as if this is the best things have been in quite a while. Which is true. But still . . he's going through some serious denial. I enjoyed the last run on this book, but . . I really like the story that Gregg Hurwitz is spinning here. I like what he's done with Jake's character so far, but . . I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. And Jerome Opena's pencils get better and better with every issue. We're only on issue #5, but this issue . . the guy looks like a pro. I thought it was a great book and a definite step in the right direction.