by Charles Soule, Stefano Landini, Ron Garney, Matt Milla
No build-up, no teasing. Just a couple panels of exposition, a mayoral inauguration and Kingpin of Crime Wilson Fisk is the mayor of New York City, "like a drive-by shooting." I've believed worse things in comics, so sure, I'll buy it.
In the next twist, the Mayor appoints as his deputy Mayor, who else, Matt Murdock. What follows is something like a cat-and-mouse legal drama, with Matt trying to thwart the Kingpin's moves and the Kingpin spinning whatever story he likes out of the last night's superhero plots. Add in a subplot of the murder artist Muse escaping jail to satirize the Mayor with giant public art, and that's mostly the story.
Ultimately, there's little meaning in whatever mayoral plot there is, because the final issue has The Hand straight up murdering Mayor Fisk with arrows. Or maybe he's not, they don't say, but either way, because of obscure NYC law, the Deputy Mayor succeeds the previous mayor. So just like that, no build-up, no teasing. Welcome Mayor Matt Murdock.
There's definitely a story here, but it's hard to give it weight if you're just going to ninja ex machina your key plotline. While it's entertaining to read, it doesn't amount to more than each issue distracting you with a shiny new whatever to obscure whatever flaws were in the previous issue. The key draw for the next volume is that Daredevil is in custody, while Matt has been appointed to Mayor. Of course I'm already this far...so I'll have volume 7 up whenever I finish it!
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Moon Knight Vol. 3: In the Night
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by Cullen Bunn, Ron Ackins and German Peralta
Volume 3 is the final collection of the 2014 series and collects issues 13-17. The scripts are great and really expand on the lore of Moon Knight as a priest of Khonshu, and the religion around Khonshu as a God of overnight travellers.
The art, while a downgrade from previous collections, maintains the style and brevity of the prior artists thanks in large part to the moody colors of Dan Brown.
As for the content, there are some wonderfully unique stories in here. Moon Knight encounters: 1) a group of thieves that "capture" ghosts and sell them for whatever reason buyers buy them for...trophies, conversation pieces, etc 2) an evil dog trainer 3) the bogeyman 4) jetpack kidnapping cultists (what? huh? OK I'VE READ WORSE I GUESS) 5) murdering Khonshu worshippers that try to recruit Moon Knight. They're all separate and standalone but with the overarching theme of...what it means to wear the aspect of Khonshu. My favorite is the dogs one, because Khonshu has been asked by another God to help out with dogs that are being abused. As his agent, Moon Knight of course delivers on the favor and helps explain it to the detective:
Also doggies. Read about the previous two volumes, here:
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