Posted by ed love on July 10, 2006, 21:28:03, in reply to "Re: MOON KNIGHT #3: WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (SPOILERS)" and that's where this really fails for me as well. while moon knight was more brutal for its time than other comics, it was because it was striving for a certain darker realism (and even that's not totally true to his original roots). moon knight of his time explored really what is now often seen as the venue of post-miller daredevil, steven grant punisher, and wolverine in general. whereas glancing through the comic, i just see extreme brutality for the sake of doing a very brutal comic. the artwork likewise tends to be overdone. it's all extreme. when i enjoyed moon knight, he didn't have problems with inner demons, those were all low points of the various series. the various identities and guises were not signs of troubled psyches ala post 80's batman, but harkened to the pulp roots when heroes often employed various disguises and identities in their war on crime. obviously, i got and enjoyed moon knight for very different reasons than apparently everyone else. to the point i feel that i must've been reading a different comic and character then and now, because i just don't see the appeal. the moon knight here isn't a character i particularly care to know or read about. i consider the basic tenet of the comic is deconstruction, completely tearing the character down and taking various pieces apart in efforts to put post-modern spins on them such as the suddenly outing of frenchie. as opposed to giving us a whole moon knight and telling a good and compelling story to begin with and letting anything interesting to say flow from there. instead the whole story is based on by artificially dismantling the character. frankly, it's also a very easy story to tell as it allows you to remold the character to fit your criteria instead of making your writing fit the character. it's also doing something very common in comics today that i dislike, taking the character's popularity and publishing schedule in the real world and using that to make judgments and statements on his in-continuity career. thus, a character with a couple of failed series and such must mean that the character himself is somehow incompetent or less than popular in the shared universe as well, regardless of how capable they were actually shown to be in-story. thus, the new warriors who successfully took on terrax and had successful careers are now considered enough of a joke and incompetent that they can spark the civil war. and moon knight, instead of fighting crime and being capable in dozens of untold adventures, must be a bitter broken man wanting to reclaim his glory days (yeah, that's good motivation for a hero).
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: The stories are the same and I honestly
: think you would enjoy it. It has the same
: feel as the original series. Back when he
: was brutal, hard hitting and had problems
: dealing with his inner demons.
:
see, that's not really what i got as the gist of the moon knight character, but more of where people deviated from what made moon knight interesting to me.
:
: I have not seen a deconstruction of the
: character yet (still have not been able to
: get #3 unfortunatly). It is more of the same
: rebirth feel that Moon Knight always goes
: through. He reaches a down point, needs help
: but is too proud and ends up getting it not
: only from his friends, but the one thing he
: wants out of his life so much, but at the
: sametime always relies on it so much. That
: of course is Khonshu.
:
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