There's something going on the ceiling. It smells like wet everything. It looks like it's a green fungus, but it's gotten something that looks like eyes. Actually kind of a lot of something that looks like eyes. That's not good. That can't be good. Especially in a low gravity situation where things are very tenuous. They'll be able to handle it. These are smart people, right? The thing growing on the ceiling is the least of their problems in Moon Man #7. The writing team of Scott Mescudi, Kyle Higgins and Joe Clark continue their lunar odyssey with artist Federico Bertoni and colorist Igor Monti.

It’s a four-man mission to the moon. They’ve made contact with some form of extra-terrestrial life that has given one of them flash backs to moments across his whole life. But that could have been anything, right? It’s not necessarily life. That stuff growing on the ceiling, though? The stuff that smells like hay that seems to be looking at them? That just might be life. The suggestion is that they’re going to die if they don’t go home. There’s a hell of a lot of danger that they’re being confronted with and it might be seriously fatal for them to continue.

The team is managing quite a lot. There are various dangers that are running into a rather large ensemble. It's weird. There are not really that many people involved. And yet there's so much going on with them, but really feels like it's nonstop at least twice as large as it actually is. The overall dangers that are facing, the crew seem to be amplifying of the overall tensions that the rating team is bringing to the page. It's all very well-executed on quite a few different levels. It's remarkable that it's moving as quickly as it is given how many stress is the writing team is throwing at the crew as they consider heading to the safety of the ISS.

The interior of the craft in question is actually pretty spacious for something of this nature. So I really just sort of feel like I'm building in space. That a lot of terror to come out of strange shadows that are working around the corners of everything. The team does a really good job of amplifying that however, they settle and of the emotions and attention don't quite hit the faces of the ensemble the way they should. That being said, the overall intensity of the drama is carefully brought to the page with atmospheric visuals.

Space exploration and horror have been really good to each other over the years. Both genres do a really good job of moving in and around each other. The biggest sources of horror is the unknown and there's nothing quite as unknown as cold, unforgiving space. It's nice to see comic book exploring this without being too terribly cosmic about the whole thing. This is really just people trying to manage their way through one of the most dangerous environments and imaginable. It's fun.

Grade: B