Advanced Review: Moon Knight (#2) Rips Through the Competition
Writer: Charlie Huston
Artist: David Finch
Inker: Danny Miki
This is one BADASS title. Holy shit it’s a crazy ride that I am on board for until the wheels need oiling and my shirt is covered in vomit. This book is insane. I remember reading an interview with writer Charlie Huston and him saying something about the book being crazy gory and almost afraid to turn in the scripts because he didn’t know if he was going to get away with some of the stuff. Then he mentioned how enthusiastic he was to show the difference between Moon Knight and Batman and that Moon Knight is a twisted sick fuck and everyone should see that front and center, sonuvabitch does this motherfucker deliver! I read that interview and I was like, “Pssh sure, we’ll see.” I was put in my place in a millisecond.
I have to mention this one gripe though so that I can get it out of the way, the writing moves really fast, not much dialogue at all. There are maybe three pages with decent conversation going on, but this issue, as well as the last, was action heavy and I gather that Huston was very specific about all the panels because the fluidity of the book moves like a walk in the park on a fine summers day (if a nuke went off and it started to rain body parts, I mean that in a the best possible way too).
So what’s the deal? This issue throws you right in the middle of the whole damn show with Moon Knight fighting his long time nemesis Raoul Bushman. This guy is dressed in rag tag army gear and sports the latest in Death’s Mask face marks (complete with a jewel) and some shinny sharp teeth that would make even Jaws cower in fear! This is one mean mamma jamma as he does the classic blood-lick knife after slashing at old Moon Knight! So you find out that this is the fight that…Small Spoilers (What are you doing reading the review of issue two if you haven’t read issue one, fool?)…caused Moon Knight to become crippled, and caused him to do one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in mainstream comics (sorry that is reserved for the spoilers).
The artwork is perfect for this comic and you can tell that Finch and crew spent a pain stacking time doing it! Everything is detailed to the point of over-detailing but with Huston’s scripts I don’t see how that could be a bad thing, since all your doing is enhancing the feel of the book. Finch is great at these urban war zone style fights and it really shows in this issue. The blood is insane, at first I glazed over it and then I went back after saying “hold up,” because I had to remind myself that I was reading a mainstream title, not Indy, not MAX just straight up Marvel and I was almost afraid to see what happened next.
So needless to say I really enjoyed the hell out of this book. This team of Huston and Finch is great and I know that if Huston wants to stay on or come back he may not have Finch there too but this is a very promising start. I liked issue one but like I said in the Podcast all those damn previews nearly killed it for me. This was a great roller coaster ride, don’t get me wrong about the dialogue I love the noir inner monologue and would rather see more of that then dialogue anyway, Huston has really BECOME Moon Knight, this baby gets an A. Below are the spoilers, now here you have two choices and only two choices. You can either go get the issue and enjoy it for all its worth, or you can read the spoilers and say, “Holy shit are you fucking serious?” and then you’ll go get the book anyway, but a little magic is lost then, your choice, here you go.
