Moon Knight #1 *Spoilers*

[SomeBodyAtCBR]

Its clearly going to be Moon Knight since his personalities know all about LA but Marc doesn't. Hes just that crazy and it would be such a twist.

Yeah I'm thinking that too.

[Hulk_Is]

Those speculations are basically what occured in Amazing Spider-Man 220. Moon Knight takes over just to take baddies down. :-/

Bendis' run is at least, an extentsion of that.

[Amy Racecar]

long time moon knight fan and usually a bendis & maleeve fan & all i can really say is "meh".

its like we finally get a relaunch with a creative team that people will buy no matter what and theyve turned moon knight into just another bendis avengers book. i dont get it.

[XPac]

Those speculations are basically what occured in Amazing Spider-Man 220. Moon Knight takes over just to take baddies down. :-/

Bendis' run is at least, an extentsion of that.

If that's what he's doing, he's kind of taking a page out of Shrouds playbook. And funnily enough, he's kind of doing it on SHrouds turf too.

[Alan2099]

I know this is all said in sarcasm cause you loathe the current direction but almost all of your points are spot on

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I have no clue who's being sarcastic and who's not, so just to be on the safe side, I'm going to disagree with everyone.

[Prince Of Orphans]

It wasn't a continuity error at all. What we were shown at the beginning of the book was the in-universe TV show version of Marc's origin. Given that he's the producer he can't well use his own name however and Steven Grant's kinda sorta already a pretty public name and so he used Jake Lockley.

Not sure why people didn't pick that up.

I'm not sure either. I think it's an honest mistake by some is all. Maybe they missed the 'Executive Producer Marc Spector' bit since it was in the backround.

Also, why bog down the story with what happened to Frenchie and Marlene?

It's a relaunch, the whole point is to grab new readers. If someone has never read MK, why introduce backstory that will probably not affect the new direction of the book?

It would be a continuity wank, but it would also confuse the new readers and possibly turn them off from the book

It takes the risk of alienating old fans imo, trading old friends for new friends and all that. The old friends will always be there for MK, but you won't be able to say the same for the new friends. It's a tad underhanded to the fans that made MK as popular as he is and although i realize it's a business, you can't run a business without a sect of dedicated clients, which are the old MK fans.

I think it could be done in a way that introduces readers to the characters rather than have the reader feel as if they are missing something. It's possible to do it in a way that doesn't distract from the story. Marlene in particular could've been introduced no problem.

Reading the stories is almost always better than a wikipedia article.

100% agreed. I don't find wiki ever giving a deserving character justice. Back issues FTW.

[AcesX1X]

if moon knight is the kingpin of LA is steve going to be forced to kick him off the avengers and throw him in a hospital? this seems like a disturbing mental illness that needs to be contained.

[earl]

I thought it was a pretty good comic overall. It hung up as a single issue and made me wonder what comes next, which is what it is all about. You got the characters background handled pretty succinctly and then it is on to what is going down now. I am sure that Frenchy and Marlene will be incorporated at some point and the expanded cast of the new Moon Knight comic laid out.

Now this is on one issue, but this issue is way more on target than the totally psychotic loony that was Moon Knight in the Huston re-start. That thing was totally over the top by comparison.

[Kaim]

Up until now the formula of Bendis + Maleev + the solo adventures of a street-level hero haven't disappointed me, so I'm going to ignore my strong urge to kind of shrug at this issue. It may be that the concept was so unabashedly plastered all over everything that the issue's ending really had absolutely no kick to it, or that I read the thing in a kind of over-tired state at 1:00 in the morning, but it hasn't really grabbed me yet. That said, I've never passed judgement on a series based solely on a first issue, and this one wasn't even a bad first issue - just not great. If the rest of the first story arc pans out, I'll be sold. If not... while, another $3.99 in my pocket.

[StoneGold]

That thing was totally over the top by comparison.

You say that like it was a bad thing.

[Maestro]

I love the inside joke on Hawkeye's death.

NOT LIKE THIS!!!

[marvelprince]

I love the inside joke on Hawkeye's death.

NOT LIKE THIS!!!

Oh yeah, I read that and wondered if anyone else picked up on that. Got a good laugh out of it.

[chalmersforthree]

Yeah that whole scene was really hard to interpret.

same here.

[Ace Grayson]

I think i just wikipedia the character for now and stick for the book for a while to see how the plot evolves.
Thanks for the input you two ^^

I'd suggest this too. I think Moon Knight, as a character, is pretty cool, but his old comics...Fist of Khonsu, the Marc Spector run...Are really boring. I didn't finish either.

[The Batman]

Fist of Khonshu and the Marc Spector: Moon Knight stuff was some of my least favourite stuff as well. Fist of Khonshu felt a bit off base and the Marc Spector book a little too 90's Marvel generic.