Moon Knight #2 Review

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Moon Knight has long been a character I enjoy. I like his originality, despite being a very Batman-like character. He’s had several incarnations, and been killed at least once, but keeps coming back. I liked his last series, and had high hopes for this one. Sadly, I don’t care for what Brian Bendis has chosen to do here.

Moon Knight #2 Review

Let’s get the plot summary done: on the trail of where the Ultron came from last issue, Moon Knight talks to himself and his three new imaginary friends, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and Captain America, who are new versions of his old multiple personality disorder. After arguing with himself, he then dresses up like Spider-Man with big metal wrist bracers to attack a bunch of strippers. He loses. Seriously. He gets saved by former Daredevil associate and briefly Avenger Echo, who is undercover with the evil strippers. For those who don’t know Echo, she was an interesting pairing with Daredevil because he’s blind and she’s deaf.

Yep. A deaf stripper. Can’t hear the music. Can’t hear the DJ introduce her. Can’t see what the customers say if they have a drink in front of their face.But seemed to catch the gist of what Spider-Knight was saying with the full face mask on, which is neat when she reads lips. Anyway, she’s mad at Spider/Wolvie/Knight for ruining her cover by getting shot while wearing the Spider-Man costume but using bracers that had fake Wolverine claws in them. Really. They’re going to work together, while the chief stripper reports to some evil bad guy about what’s happened, and I’m sure there’s going to be a fight, but it’s going to be without me.

I like Moon Knight a lot. This is… silly. He’s so far gone that he dressed in the costumes of his other personalities, who aren’t who they used to be. But no one on the Secret Avengers team, largely trained intelligence agents, have noticed anything wrong with him. Why he has Spidey’s costume, but not the others, I have no idea. Same for where he got the wrist things that work kinda like Spidey’s web-shooters, but also have claws. What, no fake shield?

Part of the appeal for Moon Knight, to me at least, was his established supporting cast, his base of operations, the touch of mysticism from the god Khonshu. None of that is here, and he’s apparently crazier than ever, which perceptive people like Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter, and the Black Widow don’t notice. Ok. Whatever. Two issues is, I think, the shortest run I’ve ever given a book about a character I like, but I’m just not interested in this take on things. Not wild about the art, either- the strippers are plotting their evil in front of a background of random green and white swirly something or others, what they are? Dunno. Don’t care. I’m done.

A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConswell, it’s notionally Moon Knight. Kinda.he’s too crazy and I don’t buy deaf Echo in a club undercover Rating20%

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