# 2 - The Slasher - Sounds interesting at first, it's about a killer who murders hobos and it turns into a mystery. It's fun for awhile but the bad writing really gets to me. It's like they had these great ideas and couldn't figure out how to do them. Anyways in this issue he randomly decides to tell everyone he's Moon Knight. Know how most heroes try to avoid that? Well not Moon Knight, fuck no he tells everyone.
# 3 - Midnight Means Murder - Another cool cover with a stupid story. It's about an art collector who steals shit for cheap thrills. It also takes like 5 seconds to figure out who he really is. Then he gets shot with rubber bullets by Moon Knight's dumb girlfriend and falls into a river. Gee he's not coming back.
Speaking of his girlfriend let me touch on her for a second. Her names Marlene and guess what? Marc Spector*Moon Knight* was the reason her father was murdered. He was apart of a raid on an archeological dig for ancient Egyptian artifacts. Bushman and Marc's crew took everyone hostage and stole all their stuff. So Marlene's dad puts a gun to Bushman's head and Marc stops him. Then Bushman rips the guys jugular out with his teeth. So after seeing that you'd imagine Marlene might not like Marc very much. She acts like she's pissed off at him for like 5 minutes and then when Bushman dumps him in the desert and leaves him for dead after Marc disobeys him she feels bad for him. Then she becomes his girlfriend and always acts like she's horny for him all the time. A lot of sense that makes.
# 4 - A Committee of 5 - A bunch of assassins go after Moon Knight. He pissed off the Committee by jacking their money during the werewolf issue. They explain in this issue that Frenchie, Moon Knight's partner, is a member and he talked them into hiring Marc Spector for the job. He pretended he came up with the Moon Knight costume to trick them and that the whole thing was really just a big sting operation. Anyways the assassins suck and end up killing each other like morons. Also let me make a quick note that they love to make him look like he's in more peril then he really is on these covers.
# 5 - Ghost Story - Ghosts my ass. This is about some crazy bank robbers who end up getting double crossed by one of their mates. They chase him to his parents old house and end up getting fucked with by the guys Mom. There's no ghosts in it at all despite the cool cover. It turns out to be a skeleton in a chair with a shotgun attached to a string that fires when you open a door, original...
# 6 - White Angels - Okay let me make a simple request for a moment here. For the love of god make a cover that reflects what happens in the story, it's not fucking hard. They knew however if they did that no one would buy the issue because nothing interesting happens at all. The cover has a Skeleton hand, that's cool, Moon Knight getting his ass poked by a voodoo needle, and fire. There's none of that, not even fire. It's just a story about this asshole rich white guy who uses voodoo myths to scare a bunch of black people into helping him traffic heroine. It's funny they added these black kids into it as sidekicks so it doesn't appear racist. It also marks my final straw with characters need to announce everything they do as their doing it. I can see your reaching for your radio you don't need to say it out loud you moron.
# 7 - The Moon Kings - This was a two part story I actually liked, what a surprise. It's about these guys who poison the water supply in Chicago and the drug convinces everyone their on the moon. That's not all however, it also makes them see everyone around them as demons, called the Moon Kings I guess. Anyways the ring leader dresses up like a werewolf and convinces everyone that they're werewolves too. Then in the mean time he makes ransom demands. Moon Knight ends up getting poisoned and almost run over by a train.
# 8 - Night of the Wolves - Here's another cool cover that makes the story seem like it contains more then it really does. Anyways in the second part Frenchie has had the water and his girlfriend. Both of them go ape shit. Marlene especially who gets tried of Moon Knights four personalities and wants to kill him. Honestly it surprises me the plan worked so well, I guess no one drinks bottled water in Chicago. Anyways Moon Knight gets attacked by Marlene and after dealing with her he takes out the ring leader in like 4 seconds cause the guy was a pussy. The story hardly does the cover justice, made it look like he goes nuts or something.
# 9 - Vengeance in Reprise - I both like and dislike this story. The parts of the story that play on Moon Knight losing it after trying to keep himself going with multiple personalities is cool but the Midnight Man returning part was retarded and very Saturday morning. Bushman is in it too for like a second and he just goes "ha ha ha you'll never catch me Moon Knight" and runs off after springing a trap. But back to the part of the story I care about Moon Knight has four personalities.
Marc Spector, a mercenary for hire and who he was before Moon Knight, Steven Grant, a millionaire identity he uses to get himself into high brow places and to show why he has money, Jake Lockey, a cabbie who he dresses up as to get street info, and Moon Knight, which we can guess what he does. The issue I've always had with this is everyone calls him what they want to and he yells at them "Rawr I'm Jake Lockey now don't call me Steven". Like really does it matter you ass? And then he says all 3 live at the same address. Gee no one who knew Marc Spector before this is gonna figure out he's Steven Grant by looking at him. Also no ones gonna piece together that three guys who look a lot alike are all seen leaving the mansion separately and not together. Their also never seen together. There's actually a part in a later issue where he puts on a fake mustache and compliments himself on how much better his new disguise is, what a douche. I guess since he throws his secret identity around like it's nothing he doesn't need to worry.
Anyways back to the rest of the issue. Midnight Man steals Moon Knight's Khonshu statue and breaks it in front of him. This makes Moon Knight go nuts cause he thinks all his power lies in the statue, which makes no sense being as how he knew it was from the werewolf bite. Anyways it turns out the Midnight Man got deformed cause like a dip shit he stuck his face under a pipe leaking out toxic crap and now his face looks all saggy. So long story short it turns out Bushman hired Midnight Man to lure Moon Knight to a sewer chamber and then, here comes the plot twist, he betrays Midnight Man floods the chamber and leaves them all to die. Wow gripping.
# 10 - Too Many Midnights - This is the last issue in the book, and the last one I'm gonna do for now. It starts where the last one left off. Long story short, he escapes the chamber that's being flooded with water and goes crazy cause the statue was broken. He lives on the street for awhile, in his costume with no mask mind you, until some of his friends find him. Then he becomes mentally sane again after Marlene shows him a statue. She tells him it's the real one and the one the Midnight Man stole was made out of plaster. Which makes a lot of sense cause there's no way that asshole could have lifted that out of the mansion by himself. Then he asks her if she had the copy made after the real one was broken. That's really a stupid question cause that'd be pretty hard without any pictures of it or the real thing there as a scale reference. I might add though that he ran around with the head of the statue talking to it while he was crazy he didn't notice then it was a fake? What a retard.
Alright that's all for now, I pray they get better.
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