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This
book appears to be written for 13 year old boys
high on caffeine and Super-Cool. It was written
for the part of us that like blurred-out swear
words, implied nudity, breasts, blood, and some
PG-13 gore.
It's
for the men in the crowd.
And
still, it's a paltry example of what it used to
be. Of the cool that left when Huston and Finch
left the book. And what we're left with is
something similar to Bruce Jones on Incredible
Hulk or Chuck Austen on anything.
Utter crap. Worthless writing that goes nowhere.
Characters that mean nothing to no one. And
people trying to act cooler than they are.
The
whole plot of the book finds the Black Spectre
(supposedly a great villain of Moon Knight, even
though he's had all of none) going to great
lengths for the world to see the falsehood of
Moon Knight and accept him with their love.
Somehow, he is using nannites (or mini-bugs or
some such idiot crap that the 90s introduced to
comics right around the time of Clone Sagas,
Chromium, and nude variants) to gain their trust
and is going to show them that he is a hero.
Even
though he looks like an Executioner.
Marc
Spector (Jake Lockley, Steven Grant, Moon
Knight, The Fist of Khonshu) is whining and
moaning still, after 19 issues, of his broken
bones and aching knees, and of course, injects
himself with cortisone or morphine and gets up
to fight Black Spectre.
It
ends in about 3 pages. He gets up, is in a
high-tech Moon Knight-mobile or something, and
then he's at the Initiative party where they are
putting the people behind the scenes on display,
in 60 ft tall holograms with enhanced breasts
that just about every secretary or
administrative assistant has in the Marvel
Universe. Again, whatever.
Moon
Knight enacts the vengeance of Khonshu for some
unexplained reason on Black Spectre and murders
him by throwing him off a roof. Completely in
his right mind, correct? We then catch up with
all the ancillary characters you probably don't
have time to care about (Marlene, the
Moon-copter pilot guy, the guy who sees
everything about everybody, the driver/drug
dealer guy, Count Dooku) and boom, the issue
ends with Bushmaster/Khonshu acting like he
belongs in the film version of Miami Vice next
to a boring plot and Jamie Foxx acting tough and
swearing for no reason.
And
I'm a guy who swears. And the swearing in this
book is incessant. Unnecessary. Wasteful. Just
plain dumb.
So
this will be my last tango with Moon Knight for
the time being. I don't care that Werewolf by
Night, one of my all-time favorite comic
characters is in the next issue. I don't care
that the next arc is entitled the Death of Marc
Spector. I just simply don't care.
Here
you go Marvel, here's free advice. Find a
regular team on this book that can kick ass
similar to Huston and Finch (like say, I don't
know, Chuck Dixon and Doug Mahnke) and give them
the reins to the book. Make it something
COMPLETELY different. Or just embrace the
character either as a Skrull or in the MAX-verse
alongside his angrier and cooler counterpart the
Punisher and make the book better. For now, I am
signing off this character until I see something
of interest again. And not a moment sooner.
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