Showing posts with label Moon knight marvel comics books essential volume 1 chris pelletier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon knight marvel comics books essential volume 1 chris pelletier. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Moon Knight Reviews Part 2

Recharged, refreshed, and ready continue. We left off with issues #1 which I said wasn't horrible but wasn't good either. The stories boarder being decent and being ass from this point on. The main problem is the writing, characters spout off stupid lines of dialogue that either state the complete obvious or make them look retarded.


# 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.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Fear the Fist of Khonshu

So I have a guilty pleasure, comic books. I've been collecting them since I was a kid but it wasn't until recently that I found myself enjoying reading them. I know that sounds odd but all I cared about was how cool they looked as a kid. As I got older I didn't collect anything except Ninja Turtles. Eventually I collected every issue and have read most of them. I needed to try something else.

I decided Batman was a great place to start. So I grabbed a few Batman trades and went to town. After several of those I thought I might switch series up a bit. I remembered I always liked Moon Knight so I got a trade of his newest series. I read through the first book and half the second one. It took place in the present and made references to stuff that happened in the previous series. So I decided to pick up this little book to clear up my questions.


As the cover states it contains Moon Knight issues #1-10 and all of his appearances before he had his own series. Some of them were in Hulk magazine and the others were randomly throughout other characters comics. It's a massive book and it took me longer to read it then any of the trades thus far. It's also all in black and white which can get to someones eyes after awhile.

I just finished the book recently and I thought I'd write a little review on it. It's been awhile since I read the earlier parts of the book but I remember it well enough. I'm gonna do a break down of each issue and my thoughts on it.



Werewolf by Night #32-33 - This is the first comic he's ever appeared in. It features him as a villain at first and then later he redeems himself. This story is okay but since I had no interest in the Werewolf or any of his friends I found myself skimming till I got to the parts about Moon Knight. I also thought The Committee were lame villains.


Marvel Spotlight #28-29 - Here Moon Knight fights a guy named Conquer Lord. He gets all his dialogue from the book "What to Say if Your Evil". He's really lame and I found this story to be pretty stupid.


Spectacular Spider-Man #22-23 - I forgot what happened in these issues. I think Spider-man acts like a twat and they fight some lame dude named Cyclone if I remember correctly.


Marvel Two-In-One #52 - Here he teams up with The Thing. They fight some dude named Crossfire. He's pretty lame, apparently someone Moon Knight knew before he was MK. Honestly in all these issues Moon Knight is pretty one dimensional. He has no depth to him he just flies around in a helicopter and acts like a rip off of Batman. We get to see his cross identities a bit which is what helped me like his character but he wasn't fully developed yet. Also may I add The Thing must be retarded. He rides in a cab driven by Moon Knight's cabbie identity Jake Loceky all the way to the warehouse the bad guy is in. Moon Knight shows up inside and they beat the bad guy. Then he goes outside and Jake just happens to be there waiting for him. Hmmm he couldn't possibly be Moon Knight no way, all cabbies like to sit outside warehouses in bad parts of town for several hours, yes hours they get knocked out at one point.


Hulk Magazine #11-15, 17-18, and 20 - Here is where Moon Knight started to get good. It took some patience on my part to get this far but I did. The first story was a mystery that wasn't to bad. My main issue is it lasted way too long. However the second arc is where it really shined. The artwork got gritty and the story was just great. It profiled a serial killer who was obsessed with murdering nurses. It got inside the killers head and the plot twist is good, even if predictable. It explains more about Moon Knight's past. That was the kind of Moon Knight story I had been looking forward to.


Marvel Preview #21 - This one was about guys who have neural emitters in their brains that causes them to go psycho and their strength to increase. It's alright but too long and boring.


#1 - The origin is explained. Not a bad story. Bushman is a wicked villain but he gets captured a little too easily. The Khonshu aspect is neat but my problem lies in that they changed his origin later. In this story he is powerful according to the phases of the moon because he got bit by the werewolf in the first issue he's in. Later they changed it to when he dies he's brought back by Khonshu and gets his moon powers from that. They tried to keep the super natural elements, besides the werewolf, out of Moon Knight. It's not until many issues into his series that they even scrap the surface of it.

Alright I'll do the rest later that's enough for now.