Moon Knight: Legacy Vol. 1

Max Bemis

May 2018 · Marvel Entertainment

About this ebook

Collects Moon Knight (2017) #188-193. A new day is dawning — and with it comes an enemy unlike any Marc Spector has ever faced! Moon Knight has always been a protector from the shadows, but this new enemy is out to extinguish those shadows with blinding light and fire. Get ready for the introduction of Moon Knight’s greatest nemesis! But as the path of the Sun King brings him ever closer to Moon Knight, Marc has problems of his own: A man known as the Truth is driving people to suicide! Thank goodness Marc’s got his personalities under control. (He does have them under control, right?) Things get worse when Sun King and Bushman hit Marc where it hurts the most, and Jake Lockley’s dark secret is revealed! Will Moon Knight finally be eclipsed?

Ratings and reviews

Coming to this story after the Jeff Lemire run which did so much to breath a fresh breath of life to the character this story crafted by Max Bemis is a disappointment as it sucks most of that life out. While Bemis does attempt to carry on the theme's of Moon Knight's struggle to come to terms with the mental instability of four voices within one head (five I guess depending on how you interpret some of Moon Knight's supporting characters) his attempt falls flat. Much of the nuance of interpreting our hero's madness is tossed aside and instead long paragraphs of exposition overexplaining plot details take their place (hand holding cthulhu scene), which is a shame because the art is quite good. Maybe if Bemis was writing a novel this would have been better but he does not seem to know the right times to let the art do the talking. Frustratingly there is a complete lack of constancy with in the Crazy Runs in the Family story, at time Moon Knight is strong and controlling of a situation only to seemingly draw a blank and forget he's a hero a couple of pages later. The best example comes late in the run when we see our hero get captured on a ship of baddies, tied to a mast and interrogated to then break his bonds and kick a buncha butt without breaking a sweat only to see that one issue and later he has turned himself over to our villains and get kicked on the ground by a group henchmen. This is comics so each issue has to play out with highs and lows to the story, but the inconsistency is absolutely jarring. Where before we get a nuaced look into Marc Spector spectacuarly messed up head in Lemire's run we are now reduced to the Fist of Khonshu arguing with himself, at one point screaming out that he himself is a d-bag in a park. The antagonist Ra is hit or miss, at times he carries a lofty weight of a self-righteous preacher with a god complex, only to a few pages later be a chucklenuts of a character who turns from creepy demi-god speaking in way that carries a heavy weight into a more generic villain with some of the campiest dialogue since the silver age. Issues 190-191 are just, I really hate to be this harsh, but they are garbage. What starts as a generic loved on in danger story that tries to punch op the suspense and drama with a weird daddy issues sub-plot that doesn't get resolved and a truly ham-fisted love triangle (with only two people...) that tries but failed to inject some.... I don't know... soap-drama? But then that all gets tossed aside and we are right back to saving the damsel in distress (If I remember right they actually point this out in the dialogue in an attempt to be meta or something but it just doesn't work). This is the longest comic review I've ever written because I really had to get out there how much I was disappointed in this book. Also Bushman had no place being in here but to waste an issue. Just ugh.....