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Moon Knight By Brian Michael Bendis - Volume 2 (2012)

by Brian Michael Bendis(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785151729 (ISBN13: 9780785151722)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Marvel

review 1: A satisfying wrap-up, as Moon Knight pairs up with another low-powered Avenger to take down a burgeoning West Coast kingpin. I think Bendis does a good job with the setting and characterization; it's all fluid and fun to follow along. I never quite bought the central premise, though, that the rest of the Avengers are staying out of the way to prompt the mystery villain to reveal himself. It seems too cute, and it's also hard to believe our hero can make it out of the storyline unscathed when he's so obviously unstable--and overmatched.Still, if you can get past that, it's a decent gritty crime and capes story. Bendis has some nice lines, but even as the heroes acknowledge they're overmatched, I'm not convinced they could manage even a pyrrhic victory.Read digital ver... moresions
review 2: Moon Knight is a character that I remember along with all of the other forgotten heroes like Darkhawk. And like Darkhawk, I loved him to death. I always loved the books on the fringes, the ones that seemed like they were always a month away from being cancelled. They always seemed to be able to go where they wanted and do as they pleased because they had little to no effect on the rest of the Marvel U. It wasn't like they were tied into the Avengers or X books and had to keep up with all of the loose threads each month. Instead, they were books that just got by on their own. For a while, at least.Marvel tried revamping Moon Knight around 2006(?) or so, around Civil War. I wasn't involved with the world of comics at the time, but I've read the arcs. I liked them well enough, because it was still a fairly fringe book. Cancelled again and revamped and cancelled, it seemed like Marvel wanted to make MK work. In the end, they tried the only thing they knew would sell books- put Bendis and Maleev on it. Bendis' MK work is probably my favorite book he's worked on in the last 4 years. It makes Spector a schizophrenic, but takes away the sheer brutality of his persona. It also injected humor, real humor, and removed the camp of Charlie Huston's run. I don't know that I agreed with the choice of villain, but the story is obviously going to be leading in to a much larger crossover event sometime in the future. No one introduces an artifact like this without it being the beginning of something much bigger.All in all, the book was still cancelled after issue 12 and will most likely shelve the character altogether, unless we see him in Avengers books here and there. Like maybe Secret Avengers, Rick Remender, please please please? As far as Maleev goes, the man is just phoning it in. There's a big difference between keeping to your style and just going by rote. Like I've criticized Sean Phillips before, it seems like he is just far too comfortable pumping out the same panels, the same shaded tones and the same computerized post production finishes. If not for a great colorist, it would've been an eye-rolling ride the entire way, asking, "are we there yet?"Writing: B-Art: C less

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