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Moon Knight (2016)
Moon Knight, Vol. 3: Birth and Death
Collects Moon Knight (2016) #10-14.
The secret history of the man behind Moon Knight's mask! Marc Spector was born in Chicago - but where was his alter ego Steven Grant born? A story of birth, death and rebirth digs deep into Spector's past -and redefines the history of Moon Knight as you know it! Trapped outside of reality, his survival depends on answers -but Spector is plagued by nothing but questions! Is Moon Knight stronger alone, or more vulnerable? Where has he really been all this time? Where was a man like Marc Spector forged? And where will he face his final battle? The answers are here!
The secret history of the man behind Moon Knight's mask! Marc Spector was born in Chicago - but where was his alter ego Steven Grant born? A story of birth, death and rebirth digs deep into Spector's past -and redefines the history of Moon Knight as you know it! Trapped outside of reality, his survival depends on answers -but Spector is plagued by nothing but questions! Is Moon Knight stronger alone, or more vulnerable? Where has he really been all this time? Where was a man like Marc Spector forged? And where will he face his final battle? The answers are here!
110 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 3, 2017
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Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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April 8, 2022
2022
Excellent ending to this run that allows Marc to accept himself as he is and move forward.
If you're watching the show and want some insight into the mental aspect of Moon Knight, this is an excellent jumping-off point.
2018
In Lemire's last volume of Moon Knight, Marc makes a journey into the most frightening place he's ever been...his own mind.
This was a pretty cool final volume that did a nice job (I thought) dealing with Marc's mental illness in a positive way.
Yeah, he's crazy.
But...eh. That's not the end of the world or the end of Marc's ability to live a full life.
The story flashes back to the past, where he begins to figure out who he is and what some of the symbolism in his life has actually meant. Then it flashes forward to his present and what those revelations mean for him going forward.
Personally, I thought the ending was refreshingly optimistic for a Moon Knight comic. Especially considering the subject matter. It doesn't make light of mental illness, but it does leave you with the message that it isn't unbeatable.
Marc is never going to be normal.
But that's ok. That sort of thing is overrated anyway.
Recommended for Moon Knight junkies.
Excellent ending to this run that allows Marc to accept himself as he is and move forward.
If you're watching the show and want some insight into the mental aspect of Moon Knight, this is an excellent jumping-off point.
2018
In Lemire's last volume of Moon Knight, Marc makes a journey into the most frightening place he's ever been...his own mind.
This was a pretty cool final volume that did a nice job (I thought) dealing with Marc's mental illness in a positive way.
Yeah, he's crazy.
But...eh. That's not the end of the world or the end of Marc's ability to live a full life.
The story flashes back to the past, where he begins to figure out who he is and what some of the symbolism in his life has actually meant. Then it flashes forward to his present and what those revelations mean for him going forward.
Personally, I thought the ending was refreshingly optimistic for a Moon Knight comic. Especially considering the subject matter. It doesn't make light of mental illness, but it does leave you with the message that it isn't unbeatable.
Marc is never going to be normal.
But that's ok. That sort of thing is overrated anyway.
Recommended for Moon Knight junkies.
April 8, 2022
Lemire wraps up his run by finally dealing with Khonshu and setting up the character with a great new starting point. I liked how Lemire worked in Marc's mental illness into his origins and the Doug Moench run on Moon Knight. Greg Smallwood and Jordie Bellaire knocked it out of the park with the art. Their use of white and black is fantastic. It's the best looking Marvel book I've seen in a long while.
June 2, 2017
An excellent conclusion to Jeff Lemire's best Marvel series. It may not have been the deepest comic out there, but it was a very fun, action-packed book with gorgeous artwork and some very cool ideas. It's a shame Marvel doesn't let these great underdog series to live longer, but then again, it's always better to finish a story before the quality starts to dip. And Lemire managed to do just that with Moon Knight.
January 20, 2022
5/5 stars.
Perfection.
Perfection.
May 20, 2022
Well, this is a good-lookin’ comic thanks to Greg Smallwood and Jordie Bellaire (who also did colors on the Warren Ellis issue). It keeps getting better, and would seem to be--compared to the would crazy ride with different artists doing differently personalities--far more linear, less chaotic as identity turns from multiple to singular and back again.
Is that quite right? Well we are kinda back where we started from, where Marc Spector has multiple personalities but is not in an “insane asylum” (or, psychiatric hospital?) and is now more of an “integrated personality” or whole, and ready to fight Bad Guys as the all-white-costumed Moon Knight.
So what’s different? Marc has apparently separated himself from the Egyptian Moon god Khonsu, the god of healing, but also the god of vengeance (?!). (Yeah, I dunno, either).
All three of these volumes are about his madness/not madness/madness. Moon Knight is known as a vigilante. Separated from Khonshu (if indeed future runs embrace this), will he be less vengeance-oriented? At any rate, these volumes are not about Marc or Moon Knight doing anything else than dealing with his identity issues, and ending with a current pronoun usage moment: he’s “their” and not “his”! Okay!
Random stuff:
*A flashback moment we read about March Spector: Khonshu visited Marc as a a young boy whose mind was broken and split into different personalities, and chose him as his avatar. So Marc is revealed to have “imaginary friends” such as Stephen Grant.
*There’s one thing common to superhero comics that drives me crazy, that Lemire actually helps proliferate here: concepts/terms such as the “overvoid;” sets my teeth on edge. Oh, trust me, I know that in the comics universe Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison and others have weighed in on the Meta-Level of Comics Mythology, that there are The Presence, The Source, The Void and the Primal Monitor/Overvoid, but I am not at this point all that committed to this particular discussion. The Overvoid is also called something like the Monitor-Mind, the Primal Monitor, and so on. . . which--is it Gaiman?--equates to the blank page of a comic, what is there before anything else is created. . . . but again, this stuff isn’t all that interesting to me at this moment in my life. Have at it!
*I am not sure how The Bushman comes in here, but I guess this is a set up for future volumes by someone. I had to look this up, but Doug Moench created him in 1980 and he is apparently an enemy of Moon Knight.
*There’s some insect jousting in this volume, because you know. . . comics.
In spite of this longish meditation, I am unlikely to recall much about this run except the black-white artwork, which is great.
Is that quite right? Well we are kinda back where we started from, where Marc Spector has multiple personalities but is not in an “insane asylum” (or, psychiatric hospital?) and is now more of an “integrated personality” or whole, and ready to fight Bad Guys as the all-white-costumed Moon Knight.
So what’s different? Marc has apparently separated himself from the Egyptian Moon god Khonsu, the god of healing, but also the god of vengeance (?!). (Yeah, I dunno, either).
All three of these volumes are about his madness/not madness/madness. Moon Knight is known as a vigilante. Separated from Khonshu (if indeed future runs embrace this), will he be less vengeance-oriented? At any rate, these volumes are not about Marc or Moon Knight doing anything else than dealing with his identity issues, and ending with a current pronoun usage moment: he’s “their” and not “his”! Okay!
Random stuff:
*A flashback moment we read about March Spector: Khonshu visited Marc as a a young boy whose mind was broken and split into different personalities, and chose him as his avatar. So Marc is revealed to have “imaginary friends” such as Stephen Grant.
*There’s one thing common to superhero comics that drives me crazy, that Lemire actually helps proliferate here: concepts/terms such as the “overvoid;” sets my teeth on edge. Oh, trust me, I know that in the comics universe Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison and others have weighed in on the Meta-Level of Comics Mythology, that there are The Presence, The Source, The Void and the Primal Monitor/Overvoid, but I am not at this point all that committed to this particular discussion. The Overvoid is also called something like the Monitor-Mind, the Primal Monitor, and so on. . . which--is it Gaiman?--equates to the blank page of a comic, what is there before anything else is created. . . . but again, this stuff isn’t all that interesting to me at this moment in my life. Have at it!
*I am not sure how The Bushman comes in here, but I guess this is a set up for future volumes by someone. I had to look this up, but Doug Moench created him in 1980 and he is apparently an enemy of Moon Knight.
*There’s some insect jousting in this volume, because you know. . . comics.
In spite of this longish meditation, I am unlikely to recall much about this run except the black-white artwork, which is great.
December 6, 2017
While the story was a little unsatisfying in places, this was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful comicbooks I've ever read. Jaw-dropping artwork.
April 25, 2019
3.5 stars
"I'm a ghost. A specter of the moon. The moon's knight of vengeance . . . and I have work to do!" -- Marc "Moon Knight" Spector
This interesting and unique trilogy wraps up with Birth and Death, in which our title character actually has to exorcise his personal demons. (I'm not just trying to be clever with a turn of phrase here - it's the real deal.) After some nice biographical and background content - Spector as a pre-teen in Chicago, his dishonorable discharge from the military, and his mental health issues - the story concludes with the expected dramatic confrontation with Khonshu. This was a nice mini-series!
"I'm a ghost. A specter of the moon. The moon's knight of vengeance . . . and I have work to do!" -- Marc "Moon Knight" Spector
This interesting and unique trilogy wraps up with Birth and Death, in which our title character actually has to exorcise his personal demons. (I'm not just trying to be clever with a turn of phrase here - it's the real deal.) After some nice biographical and background content - Spector as a pre-teen in Chicago, his dishonorable discharge from the military, and his mental health issues - the story concludes with the expected dramatic confrontation with Khonshu. This was a nice mini-series!
November 4, 2017
Vote: 3,5
More a 4 stars, but being an old fan of the character I just hated the retconning of Grant/Lockley identities to Marc Spector's childhood mental issues... and the Spector "Space Warrior" was just weird/ridicolous!
Still liked this run, and artworks were very good, but I really hope that with Marvel
June 24, 2018
This Moon Knight run has been really different, but I appreciate that about it. All of the craziness that Moon Knight has been going through since his inception comes to a head here (even if some of that craziness was just writers not knowing what to do with him. Happy mistakes and weird continuity errors sometimes set up the best stories).
Style-wise, this run--and especially this volume--kind of reminded me of the movie The Fountain. Strange parallel worlds, alternate personalities, and time/space that works in wonky ways, it's all here.
Another interesting thing about this run is that there is no world-shattering plot and no real super villains. It is just Marc fighting for his own mind, and it really works.
I will also add that, while this run is fun all by itself, it really gets better the more you know about Moon Knight and his history.
Style-wise, this run--and especially this volume--kind of reminded me of the movie The Fountain. Strange parallel worlds, alternate personalities, and time/space that works in wonky ways, it's all here.
Another interesting thing about this run is that there is no world-shattering plot and no real super villains. It is just Marc fighting for his own mind, and it really works.
I will also add that, while this run is fun all by itself, it really gets better the more you know about Moon Knight and his history.
August 8, 2018
Lemire and Smallwood make the most of what Marvel's "Moon Man" has to offer, exploring complex topics such as identity and mental illness while still playing by the rules of the genre. The story ultimately isn't all that deep, but it manages to make a few valid points ("Is this real? All I know for sure is that the rain feels real as it hits our face. Real enough, anyway. And that's good enough for us.") and is generally well-conceived and -executed. Not essential Lemire, perhaps, but pretty darn good superhero fare!
May 10, 2022
Fantastic. A wonderfully complete introduction to Moon Knight through a grand ole trip through madness. History, all the pieces of his mind, and a perfectly rounded sequence, all wrapped up in one.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
April 10, 2022
Well that was a trip. Lenore redefines Moon Knight with a climactically insane reformation of MK’s relationship with his alters and his god.
I was pretty skeptical going into this series, as I’ve previously found Lemire’s stuff far too introspective and meandering. And there’s still plenty of that here in this run. But it’s also a summation and synthesis of everything that’s gone on with MK since his beginnings. And it does a damn fine job piecing him together from all his parts.
Gotta call out the art in this whole run too - gorgeous, trippy when it needed to be, but never pointlessly abstract, and always clear enough to augment the story rather than distract from it.
I was pretty skeptical going into this series, as I’ve previously found Lemire’s stuff far too introspective and meandering. And there’s still plenty of that here in this run. But it’s also a summation and synthesis of everything that’s gone on with MK since his beginnings. And it does a damn fine job piecing him together from all his parts.
Gotta call out the art in this whole run too - gorgeous, trippy when it needed to be, but never pointlessly abstract, and always clear enough to augment the story rather than distract from it.
September 30, 2017
I was genuinely worried going into this final volume that Lemire and Smallwood wouldn't be able to stick the landing on this series. I needn't have worried.
These final five issues bring Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and Moon Knight into final conflict with Khonshu, as Marc works to heal his shattered mind once and for all. There's a finality to this story that I really hope future writers don't ignore; it's a huge turning point for the character, and shuts the door on the multiple personalities angle with a slam.
Lemire feeds in a retelling of Moon Knight's origin through the main narratuve, which is a little repetituve, but makes sense given the closing of the cycle in the present day story. I'm not familiar enough with Moon Knight to say whether it's retconning things or not, but it's a clever dual perspective that reinforces the changes that Marc and co. go through.
Greg Smallwood was sorely missed in volume 2, but returns with a vengeance here. His use of light and dark andtriking panel choices, all beautifully coloured by Jordie Bellaire elevate Lemire's script to the next level.
It was always going to be difficult to follow the previous Moon Knight series, but Lemire, Smallwood, and friends are a superb continuation. I look forward to where Moon Knight gets taken next.
These final five issues bring Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and Moon Knight into final conflict with Khonshu, as Marc works to heal his shattered mind once and for all. There's a finality to this story that I really hope future writers don't ignore; it's a huge turning point for the character, and shuts the door on the multiple personalities angle with a slam.
Lemire feeds in a retelling of Moon Knight's origin through the main narratuve, which is a little repetituve, but makes sense given the closing of the cycle in the present day story. I'm not familiar enough with Moon Knight to say whether it's retconning things or not, but it's a clever dual perspective that reinforces the changes that Marc and co. go through.
Greg Smallwood was sorely missed in volume 2, but returns with a vengeance here. His use of light and dark andtriking panel choices, all beautifully coloured by Jordie Bellaire elevate Lemire's script to the next level.
It was always going to be difficult to follow the previous Moon Knight series, but Lemire, Smallwood, and friends are a superb continuation. I look forward to where Moon Knight gets taken next.
August 12, 2025
Nesse último volume do Lemire frente ao Cavaleiro da Lua, sinto que as peças se encaixaram e toda a confusão da mente do Marc se alinha, conseguindo entregar para o leitor uma trama mais coesa e sensata, com bem menos cenas em que nós não sabíamos se o que estava acontecendo era real ou não.
Eu sei que muito da ‘graça’ do Cavaleiro da Lua são suas múltiplas personalidades, e que o Jeff Lemire trabalhou muito bem essa questão, porém eu fiquei muito confuso em diversos momentos da HQ, o que me distanciou um pouco da trama, mas como mencionei anteriormente, é alinhado nesse último volume e você entende tudo que o roteirista quis trabalhar em sua run do personagem.
Vemos que desde a sua infância, Marc sofre com esse transtorno de personalidade, e que Konshu se aproveita disso e traça planos para Marc desde então. Assim, entendemos que além de sofrer com suas faculdades mentais, Marc é, de certa maneira, manipulado por Konshu, que ao meu entender, fez a doença de Marc até se agravar.
Nesse sentido, Lemire consegue dar uma boa conclusão para sua run, com uma pitada de esquizofrenia e Clube da Luta, que potencializados pelo traço do Greg Smallwood, dão um ar apoteótico para o embate entre Marc e o seu Deus.
Eu sei que muito da ‘graça’ do Cavaleiro da Lua são suas múltiplas personalidades, e que o Jeff Lemire trabalhou muito bem essa questão, porém eu fiquei muito confuso em diversos momentos da HQ, o que me distanciou um pouco da trama, mas como mencionei anteriormente, é alinhado nesse último volume e você entende tudo que o roteirista quis trabalhar em sua run do personagem.
Vemos que desde a sua infância, Marc sofre com esse transtorno de personalidade, e que Konshu se aproveita disso e traça planos para Marc desde então. Assim, entendemos que além de sofrer com suas faculdades mentais, Marc é, de certa maneira, manipulado por Konshu, que ao meu entender, fez a doença de Marc até se agravar.
Nesse sentido, Lemire consegue dar uma boa conclusão para sua run, com uma pitada de esquizofrenia e Clube da Luta, que potencializados pelo traço do Greg Smallwood, dão um ar apoteótico para o embate entre Marc e o seu Deus.
December 12, 2017
And so we come to the end of Lemire's run.
CrazySexyCool?
Sure, and just a little more linear this time, and with much more consistent (and gorgeously trippy) art.
CrazySexyCool?
Sure, and just a little more linear this time, and with much more consistent (and gorgeously trippy) art.
July 21, 2018
The two strengths of the final volume of Lemire's Moon Knight are its artwork and its flashbacks. The artwork is by Greg Smallwood, with spectacular coloring by Greg Bellaire, and is striking and beautiful. The flashbacks touch upon the familiar story of Marc Spector becoming Moon Knight, but also go all the way back to his childhood, and may offer the best look ever at who Marc really is.
The main story of "Birth and Death" is about Marc's final conflict with his patron deity, and it's a perfectly good modern-day story, but it's really the relationship with the past that makes this book spectacular.
Now that it's done, we can say that Jeff Lemire's run was one of the best ever for Moon Knight. A pity it wasn't a wee bit longer.
The main story of "Birth and Death" is about Marc's final conflict with his patron deity, and it's a perfectly good modern-day story, but it's really the relationship with the past that makes this book spectacular.
Now that it's done, we can say that Jeff Lemire's run was one of the best ever for Moon Knight. A pity it wasn't a wee bit longer.
May 27, 2018
Lemire uspokojive uzavira svuj run a ze to za to stalo. Opet sem se presvedcil, ze nejlepsi Marvel serie nejsou ty, kde superhrdinove zachranujou svet, ale ty komornejsi pribehy, kde postavy bojujou se svejma demonama (v pripade Lemirova Moon Knighta je to skoro az doslovny). Myslim, ze tahle serie snese srovnani s Visionem Toma Kinga nebo Black Boltem Saladina Ahmeda.
October 22, 2022
Ok, good enough. A solid finish to a mess of a story about a messed-up character. Considering the entire trilogy now, I can appreciate what Lemire tried to do with the story. It is, in fact, a solid story about coherency of self, coherency of purpose in spite of the odds.
There were some exciting moment, the teetering and the triumph. And yes, I’m sure, eventually I’ll watch the cinematic reincarnation of the white-clad Moon Knight because a. you can’t avoid Marvel and b. I love, love, love the lead actor.
But overall, this was something of a disappointment. Not in the Marvel Universe – that never really wowed me, but in Lemire who always does.
It kind of made me think of all the actors, talented, terrific actors who end up steamrolled into the Marvel machine and don’t always do their best, competing with CGI, the way they might in their other ventures. Lemire, it seems, is best as doing his own thing. Though this must have been an interesting, commercially viable, experiment for the author.
Ok, done. Moving on.
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There were some exciting moment, the teetering and the triumph. And yes, I’m sure, eventually I’ll watch the cinematic reincarnation of the white-clad Moon Knight because a. you can’t avoid Marvel and b. I love, love, love the lead actor.
But overall, this was something of a disappointment. Not in the Marvel Universe – that never really wowed me, but in Lemire who always does.
It kind of made me think of all the actors, talented, terrific actors who end up steamrolled into the Marvel machine and don’t always do their best, competing with CGI, the way they might in their other ventures. Lemire, it seems, is best as doing his own thing. Though this must have been an interesting, commercially viable, experiment for the author.
Ok, done. Moving on.
This and more at https://advancetheplot.weebly.com/
February 11, 2023
Moon Knight ve Lemire’ı birlikte görünce heyecanlanmıştım çünkü Jeff Lemire’ın genel olarak kitaplarını beğeniyordum ve Moon Knight daha öncesinde adını duymadığım Marvel karakterlerindendi. Açıkçası 3 cilt arasında en iyisi ilkiydi ki onun da sıkıntıları çok fazlaydı. Marc Spector zihni darmadağın bir karakter bu yüzden onun yaşadıklarını takip edip anlamlandırmaya çalışmak çok yorucu. Arada sağlıklı zihinlerden olaylar anlatılmadığı için de hep hayal mi gerçek mi ikilemine düşürüyor. Sırf bu yüzden Moon Knight’ın tamamen saçmalık olduğunu ve Marc’ın sadece akıl hastanesinde olduğunu düşünüyorum çünkü hiç Marvel karakteri gibi hissettirmedi. Olaylar karman çormandı ki aslında doğru düzgün bir şey de yaşanmadı. Gerçi bir şeyin yaşanıp yaşanmadığı bile belirsiz. Bir tek hoşuma giden Mısır mitolojisinin bol bol kullanılmasıydı ama keşke daha düzgün bir hikaye anlatımına sahip olsaymış. Belki dizisinde daha güzel anlatılan bir karakterdir. Kısacası hemen okuyup bitirdiğim üç cildi pek de sevemedim.
April 18, 2022
Moon Knight ends on a weird as hell note because, well, this whole run was weird.
Very abstract and trippy but I didn't feel the big punch. There's some cool moments here, upside down pages, and a cool ending that I did enjoy about accepting yourself. So I liked all of that. But this story felt like it could have been told in 6 issues if I'm being honest and I didn't connect to pretty much any character.
A 3 out of 5 for the art alone and good ending, rest, just okay.
Very abstract and trippy but I didn't feel the big punch. There's some cool moments here, upside down pages, and a cool ending that I did enjoy about accepting yourself. So I liked all of that. But this story felt like it could have been told in 6 issues if I'm being honest and I didn't connect to pretty much any character.
A 3 out of 5 for the art alone and good ending, rest, just okay.
June 22, 2020
The grand-finale to writer Jeff Lemire's take on Moon Knight and it is brilliant. How he recreates the character, makes the story flow in a way that nothing is ever concrete and potentially a recreation of the mind is genius.
In this story-arc, he even dares give Moon Knight an origin story that allows him to become one with who he is as an individual forever stuck with a mental illness.
The artwork also returns to its glory days from the first volume and delivers a visual treat that truly gives this comic book run its own charm.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
In this story-arc, he even dares give Moon Knight an origin story that allows him to become one with who he is as an individual forever stuck with a mental illness.
The artwork also returns to its glory days from the first volume and delivers a visual treat that truly gives this comic book run its own charm.
Yours truly,
Lashaan | Blogger and Book Reviewer
Official blog: https://bookidote.com/
September 18, 2019
Lemire's run on MK has been a treat to read.
February 16, 2022
Me sigue encantando el arte pero el guion me resulta menos atrayente. Buenos conceptos pero también unas ideas un tanto simplistas que intentan pasar por más profundas de lo que son. Sigue habiendo cosas que siento que me dan un cosquilleo en la nuca, como que no están bien, pero no podría explicar en detalle.
May 23, 2022
"I am sick. I know that. I will never be cured. This is always going to be who I am. But I can still live. I can still have a life. And I won't let you ruin that for me anymore."
"Please... you need me."
"No, Khonshu... I am Marc Spector."
"I am Steven Grant."
"I am Jake Lockley. And we are going to be okay. We are going to live with who we are."
"We are Moon Knight. And we never needed you."
That was genuinely the best and most beautiful comic run I've ever read for anything ever. I don't know, man. Marc's fight to be freed from Khonshu's hold, to come to terms with his mental health, to decide that he does not need Khonshu to live his life, that he does have a life that is worth living despite it all... it hurts so good.
Man. I love Moon Knight so much. I love Marc Spector so much.
March 17, 2022
Think I Needed More Experience with this Hero to Enjoy it More
OVERALL RATING: 2.75 stars
Art: 3.5 stars
Prose: 2.75 stars
Plot: 2.5 stars
Pacing: 3 stars
Character Development: 2.5 stars
World Building: 3 stars
OVERALL RATING: 2.75 stars
Art: 3.5 stars
Prose: 2.75 stars
Plot: 2.5 stars
Pacing: 3 stars
Character Development: 2.5 stars
World Building: 3 stars
June 4, 2023
4/5
Quality of writing: 4
Plot development: 4
Pace: 4
Characters: 4
Enjoyability: 4
Ease of reading: 4
Quality of writing: 4
Plot development: 4
Pace: 4
Characters: 4
Enjoyability: 4
Ease of reading: 4
January 29, 2018
Excellent conclusion to an excellent run yet based on none too original premises.
The it's-all-in-your-head stint has been done before. The fusion/destruction of multiple personalities too. But how many good ones for carloads of crap? All is in the execution. Lemire managed to pour new wine in old bottles and to deftly wrap up the full circle of Marc's madness. Going back to the roots of the character-his infancy even- Lemire make Marc and Konshu butt heads and settle accounts one with another.
Supposedly definitely if Marvel has the good idea to stick to Lemire's retelling/conclusion of Spector's "first" life.
I particularly appreciated Lemire's very cinemarographic approach. He made good use of the comic book medium to tell his story, perfectly seconded by Greg Smallwood- I like the guy even more with every new issue- and Jordie Bellaire. A Dream Team of a sort that outdid a plot which, in other hands, might just as well have gone down the drain.
Kudos!
The it's-all-in-your-head stint has been done before. The fusion/destruction of multiple personalities too. But how many good ones for carloads of crap? All is in the execution. Lemire managed to pour new wine in old bottles and to deftly wrap up the full circle of Marc's madness. Going back to the roots of the character-his infancy even- Lemire make Marc and Konshu butt heads and settle accounts one with another.
Supposedly definitely if Marvel has the good idea to stick to Lemire's retelling/conclusion of Spector's "first" life.
I particularly appreciated Lemire's very cinemarographic approach. He made good use of the comic book medium to tell his story, perfectly seconded by Greg Smallwood- I like the guy even more with every new issue- and Jordie Bellaire. A Dream Team of a sort that outdid a plot which, in other hands, might just as well have gone down the drain.
Kudos!
July 1, 2017
I seem to be in the minority, but I just didn't care for this series. The basis of the series was Moon Knight's fractured mind and the many personalities he assumes. I liked it best when he knew he has different identities rather than than the newer take on the character which is just that's he has mental issues. The focus of this series was combining all 3 personalities into one and maybe doing away with the split personalities all together. But what we got was three issues with weird events that could have been real or could have been imagined. Just a little existential for me and not the way I like to see Moon Knight handled. Hopefully the next series will bring him back to his roots.
January 5, 2018
The final volume in this series wraps things up beautifully. Where the second part was disjointed, part three uses the structure of the first two sections to give a satisfying conclusion. All the different aspects of Marc Spector's personalities are given a chance to shine. Plus, it brings the story back full circle.
The art is gorgeous yet again. I love the layout work that the creators use because it is different from a lot of other comics. Bellaire's color work is top notch as always. This series is a fantastic look into the psyche of Moon Knight that should appeal to fans and newcomers.
The art is gorgeous yet again. I love the layout work that the creators use because it is different from a lot of other comics. Bellaire's color work is top notch as always. This series is a fantastic look into the psyche of Moon Knight that should appeal to fans and newcomers.
September 24, 2017
This deserves at least a 7 or 8 out of 5!! Great story! Fantastic story. This tied up every other Moon Knight series with one big bow and sets the stage for a brand new series, I hope. Wow that was great!
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