Fist of Khonshu

Vengeance of the Moon Knight #9 hits stores today – and Spider-Man is along for the ride. Preview blurbs have promised a shock ending – I haven’t read it yet, so no spoilers here!

Don’t forget to pick it up! Check out the first few pages below.

Moon Knight is back in the Avengers! Well, the Secret Avengers – which trumps his West Coast Avengers past any day.

Secret Avengers is written by Ed Brubaker with art by Mike Deodato – two of my favorite writers and artists in comics today. Overall, the first issue is a success – Brubaker wastes no time in setting up this team’s status quo in the Marvel Universe and in Avengers canon. The way he positions the characters reminds me of a damn good spy flick with each team member being given a specialist role.

So where does Moon Knight fit in? That, largely, remains to be seen. You do get to see him in action with Ant Man in a great infiltration scene. However, if the norm down the road becomes Moon Knight and Ant Man as a buddy cop duo, it may get old fast. I’m pretty confident Brubaker will pair up different team members as time goes on, but just pointing it out.

There’s also a nice albeit brief set up scene with Moon Knight where Steve Rogers asks him to join the team – and Moon Knight responds with a greatly ironic “Teams and me, we don’t work. Too many voices…”. It’s a cool scene and I hope we see more of Rogers and Moon Knight interacting directly.

In fact, on that note, I would really like to see (either in Secret Avengers or Moon Knight’s solo arc) someone address what transpired the last time Moon Knight and Steve Rogers had words in Charlie Huston’s solo Moon Knight arc during Civil War. For a recap, Rogers came to Moon Knight’s home to tell him that he didn’t like his style and to stay out of the Civil War – to which Moon Knight replied that he didn’t want to get involved with their egocentric battle of who had the biggest super power. While they didn’t see eye to eye there, Moon Knight definitely showed respect for Steve Rogers when he later ran into Tony Stark, telling Iron Man that Captain America looked like a hero and Stark just looked like a pussy. Well played Huston!

Revisiting that tension would be a nice touch to bring it all back full circle.

Also, I have to mention that Mike Deodato’s art has never looked better. I’ve always liked his attention to detail and the way he draws Moon Knight in this issue is excellent. The newer tricked out suit he wears doesn’t look as armor-clad as it has in his solo arc and strikes a nice balance between his older and newer look.

So… I dug it. And I’m looking forward to more! Moon Knight fans, go pick this up and relish in the fact that we’re now getting Moon Knight more than once a month.

I have not updated this site in many moons. To those of you who have written in to complain: Yes I am a dick. A busy dick.

But I’m back and changing up the format a bit. I’ll try and do reviews and coverage of new Moon Knight shizznazzy – but I’m looking to expand a bit beyond that while keeping it all manageable with my various other persona’s.

That said, an elephant scrotum load of changes have happened to the Moon Knight world! Primarily a totally new monthly comic with a new writer and artist – the sum of which is carving a face lift of Moon Knight’s world into high gear. I’ll get into this in the next couple of days.

First off – I know, I know, I haven’t been updating this site at all for the past 2 months. I blame a recent upsurge in work and downturn in free time. I have been keeping up with the “Down South” arc though and once it’s done I’ll take a look at the arc as a whole – which thus far has been a bit of a mixed bag for me.

I stumbled upon this on io9 though and wanted to share it. They compiled a list of the Top 10 Greatest Mentally Ill Superheroes, and Moon Knight made it at the number 2 slot. Hooray for achievements!

While they do refer to him as Marvel’s answer to Batman – a comparison I hate because it’s unfounded if you look at the character origins – at least they qualify it with a (sort of).

And for those wondering, Batman is #1 on the list. And Deadpool isn’t. Which doesn’t really compute with me.