Moon Knight Omnibus

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Moon Knight teams up with Spider-Man, Daredevil, Power Man and Iron Fist to stop the Purple Man. Actually sets up the recent Devil's Reign very well. Moon Knight gets his various identities along with the rest of his supporting cast of helpers, Marlene, Gena, and Crowley. He fights a cheesy villain called Conquer-Lord who tries to frame the mayor with his own Watergate.

Infinity War: See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Infinity War. This crosses into issues #41-44. Marc appears in Infinity War #2-4 and across many tie-ins. Issue #4 contains action that continues through Moon Knight #41-44. Avengers (2018) #33-38:“The Age of Khnoshu,” a featured Moon Knight arc! You should definitely read this as part of a sequential read of the character. see Guide to Avengers Flagships (2010 – Present Day) Omnibus editions are great for two things: collecting the definitive chronology of a series or character's development (like the Uncanny X-men Omnibus editions I read a few months ago), or binding together the totality of a specific long-running story (like the Age of Apocalypse book). I love Moon Knight. His limp and languid revival for the despicable Disney Plus show (which I was never going to watch, yet I'm well aware of) typifies Marvel's ongoing inability to properly implement this character into their universe. Moon Knight is Marvel's Batman, not Daredevil. Daredevil may be the bigger name with the better runs, but Marc Spector could and should be Marvel's answer to Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne, haunted by his past and his desire to fix his city and keep everyone from experiencing the same heartache and loss as he has. Marc Spector, trying to atone for his past misdeeds and grappling with the supernatural influence's shadow he now lives in. Sure, Marc Spector will never have Batman's rogue's gallery, but in truth, he doesn't need it. Moon Knight should be the darker, dirtier, more street level Batman, but instead, we get run's like this, which do nothing to elevate the character, but instead, drag him further and further into mediocrity and obscurity.

Age of Ultron: Marc appears prominently in the early issues #2 & 4-5 (plus #10 and Avengers Assemble (2012) #14 AU), but this splinter timeline has no effect on his main story. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Age of Ultron All in all, this was a monumentally disappointing affair. We sure as hell don't need more bog standard Moon Knight stories to throw on the wasted altar that is this character's sad legacy. I'll return to Scarlet Redemption again and again, but the rest of this book may as well not exist. 2.5/5 Knight does not appear in this one-shot or series – he is merely briefly referenced. Collects this series of sequential one-shots, all from 2023: Murderworld: Avengers, Murderworld: Spider-Man, Murderworld: Wolverine, Murderworld: Moon Knight, and Murderworld: Game Over. After his participation in Shadowland and Heroes for Hire, Brian Bendis slightly reinvents Marc’s history of multiple personalities. Now, rather than intentionally flitting between his multiple cover personas, he is hallucinating that he is fighting alongside Captain America, Spider-Man, and Wolverine when really he is dishing out their blows all on his own.

Collects Moon Knight (2006) #1-30 & Annual 1, Moon Knight: Silent Knight (2008) #1, Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) #1-10, and Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) #1-3 Moon Knight officially joins the Secret Avengers in 2010’s Vengeance of the Moon Knight #10 and leaves the group in issue #21. As a member of this team, he will be part of two Marvel events: Fear Itself and Onslaught Unleashed. During that time, the character will also become a member of the Heroes of Hire during 12 issues. The Omnibus sadly ends kind of dour. I like Moon Knight being a badass superhero, and the art for the first arc of Hurwitz run is great. There's some funny moments even like Moon Knight's internal thoughts during secret avengers mission. Also in this period: Infinite Possibilities Infinity Comic (2022) #1, Death of Doctor Strange: Spider-Man (2021) #1, Fantastic Four (2018) #40 & 45, She-Hulk (2022) #4, Ghost Rider (2022) #5, Strange (2022) #5, Damage Control (2022) #1, Crypt of Shadows (2022) #1

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I will say Jeff as Midnight was a fun character. He's the son of a criminal Moon Knight took down prior and now wants to learn from Moon Knight to be a hero. But he's rash, spontaneous, and of course makes a ton of mistakes, leading to some really fun stories with him. Collects Moon Knight (1980) #21-38, Iron Man (1968) #161, Power Man and Iron Fist (1978) #87, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #144, Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (1985) #1-6, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #30; and material from Solo Avengers (1987) #3, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #38-39, and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #1 This is a review of Moench's entire Moon Knight run, not just the issues contained in this collection) Web of Spider-Man #93-94: See Spider-Man. Moon Knight is a featured co-star in this Hobgoblin arc at the end of #44. First a crossover of sorts with the same story told from two different perspectives as Moon Knight and the Hulk cross paths without realizing it. Great stuff.

Brubaker’s run on Secret Avengers is collected in Secret Avengers by Ed Brubaker: The Complete Collection. Another relaunch at Marvel with All-New, All-Different, sees Marc Spector waking up in an insane asylum with no powers and a lifetime’s worth of medical records. What’s false, and what’s real? This is Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’s surreal take on the character, taking us on a trip forcing Spector to question everything he thought he knew and mostly finding a way to kill the past, his demons, his gods.

Where to start reading Moon Knight?

Bill Sienkiewicz's first work at Marvel. Moon Knight goes on the hunt for a missing Egyption antiquity and finds a plot to blow up NYC with a nuclear bomb. Moon Knight gets his full cape. Marc Spector is a willingly schizophrenic, playboy millionaire, former military mercenary, and sometimes cab driver who avenges crime while tacitly under the command of an Egyptian god, whose powers are both a blessing and a curse that deepens Spector’s insanity.