Disney+ has done several remarkable series with various Marvel characters. The least-known to non-comic readers so far has got to be Moon Knight, which has been a fantastic ride. They’ve taken bits of Moon Knight’s story from the comics and adapted it into something new. Sadly, these series tend to be short and this is…
This might be one of the shortest reviews I’ve ever written. Not that “Asylum,” the fifth episode of Moon Knight, wasn’t great (it really was) or that I didn’t like it (I loved it). I try very hard to not do spoilers in my reviews, and there is surprise after surprise throughout this story.
Moon Knight is arguably one of the most obscure characters to make the jump from the comics to the MCU. I’ve been a fan of the character for years, and wasn’t sure what to expect from this series. It has been fantastic
Now Moon Knight has appeared in the MCU via the Disney+ series, and it is, while still a superhero story, both a mystical fantasy and a psychological thriller.
Now we’ve met this incarnation of Steven Grant, and gotten at least a glimpse of Marc Spector, Moon Knight, and Khonshu. We’ve met Arthur Harrow, a very unusual villain, and gotten an idea of the problems facing all of them.
Now, another I’ve enjoyed for years is finally getting a higher profile. We get introduced to the MCU version of Moon Knight in “The Goldfish Problem,” episode one of six. This one of my shorter reviews, as I skip a lot of things to avoid spoilers.
With Moon Knight debuting on Disney+ on March 30th, this seemed like a good time to give an overview of the character for those who aren’t familiar with him.
Cullen Bunn has been playing up the mystic side of Moon Knight, and doing a great job of it. He’s shown several different aspects of the relationship between Khonshu and Marc Spector, the Moon’s Knight. A god can have many faces, and his worshippers, their own interpretations.
This issue continues the string of one-shot stories, a welcome change from most books padded out, few issue too long arcs. “Angels” is one of the times I can see the argument about similarities between Moon Knight and Batman. Moon Knight has a lot of high-tech gadgets in this one, as he pursues what at first seems like a band of bad guys in flight suits who are randomly kidnaping people off the streets.
The problem with being the servant of a god is that the mortal perspective and the god’s don’t necessarily match up. Khonshu has been a big part of this title, a lot more than the faint presence that could be argued away in past books. Last issue, Spector even referred to himself as a priest. Now, he sees that his understanding of Khonshu is nowhere near as complete as he hoped.
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