Last issue, Marc Spector returned to New York, put on his Moon Knight duds, and fought crime. He caught Norman Osborn’s attention, and Sentry showed up at the end of the issue.
He drags Moon Knight along as he saves people around the city from various life-threatening perils, all the while telling Moon Knight that Khonshu is an evil influence and MK must push him away. Eventually, Sentry leaves rather than arrests Moon Knight.
It’s very much a Batman/Superman kinda showdown, and I totally dig it.
In the very next scene Osborn hires Profile to track down Moon Knight and determine whether it is still Marc Spector behind the mask. Osborn wants to publicly make Moon Knight go crazy, to justify jailing (or killing) him.
Profile “reads” Moon Knight, confirms that he’s still Spector, and advises Osborn that to break him, he should resurrect Bushman.
Meanwhile, Moon Knight hires Tinkerer to give him some upgrades so he can go to war with Osborn, and meets with his pals Marlene, Frenchie and Crawley.
Hood uses black magic to bring Bushman back and they gather a little army to take on Moon Knight, consisting of escaped lunatics led by Scarecrow. They head to Times Square, blow up an oil rig, and wait for Moon Knight to show himself, which he does.
The ensuing battle is great.
Moon Knight fighting his way through lunatics with some air support from Frenchie.
Spider-Man guest stars as the “conscience” of the book–urging Moon Knight not to kill Bushman.
The final fight is bloody and ends with Bushman impaled on a spike, begging Moon Knight not to “take his face” again because he skinned off Bushman’s face with a crescent night the last time Moon Knight faced (pun intended) him.
Khonshu appears, gigantic, over Moon Knight and urges him to kill but Moon Knight declines.
At the end of the issue, Spector breaks down and swears he will be a better man–and Khonshu glares.
This series balances the last iteration of Moon Knight–which was extremely and graphically violent–against the original portrait of him as a crazy man who thinks God speaks to him.
I’m really digging this.
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