Moon Knight has just stumbled into the latest Infinity Stone mystery, and it has another Marvel Comics icon at its center. “A Little Chaos” from the pages of Moon Knight Annual #1 finds the titular hero besieged by Ba, portions of the human soul who flutter along between life and death while their true self slumbers.

After following these bird-bodied, human-headed creatures to a local hospital, Moon Knight finds one patient of particular interest. As it turns out, Colleen Wing is the one who unwittingly called upon the Ba in her sleep. That is, assuming it wasn’t the Mind Stone embedded deep within her chest, instead.

Written by DAN WATTERS and DEREK LANDY Art by MARCO RENNA and SARA PICHELLI Colors by RACHELLE ROSENBERG Letters by VC’s CORY PETIT Main cover art by SALVADOR LARROCA & EDGAR DELGADO Variant covers by IVAN SHAVRIN and MIKE McKONE & DEAN WHITE

The first of Marvel’s Infinity Stones, the Soul Stone, made its Marvel Comics debut in the pages of 1971’s Marvel Premiere #1 by Roy Thomas, Gil Kane, and Dan Adkins. At the time, it was an artifact of no real note, and it wasn’t for more than a year that the Soul Stone was even given a proper name. Eventually, the true power of the Soul Stone emerged, and it became clear that not only did it command a vital aspect of the universe itself, but that it was itself a sentient entity.

It was the Soul Stone that opened the door for Adam Warlock to gain sentience and has since joined its fellow Infinity Stones at the heart of all manner of major storylines. The most iconic of these is by far 1991’s Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starling, Ron Lim, and George Pérez, which largely served as the inspiration for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame in 2018 and 2019. The Marvel Universe of comics has also given rise to several ancillary Infinity Stones, such as the Ego Gem that housed the consciousness of the cosmic entity known as Nemesis.

In more recent years, the Infinity Stones have all been imbued with sentience of their own, leading them to seek out individual hosts from across the Marvel Universe. For the past few years, every Infinity Stone save for the Mind Stone has been attached to a host, with the villainous Star wielding the Reality Stone, the synthezoid War wielding the Soul Stone, budding hero Hector Bautista wielding the Time Stone, the alien Prince of Power wielding the Power Stone, and the enigmatic Quantum wielding the Space Stone. All the while, key figures such as Thor and Thanos have been embroiled in their search for the next Infinity Stone, the Death Stone, which is set to unleash nothing but horror once its full power is unleashed.

Moon Knight Annual #1 is on sale September 4 from Marvel Comics.

Source: Marvel Comics