Starting from a horror-based comic in WEREWOLF BY NIGHT in the 70's, he's had a series of continuing series, all with varying degrees of success. Moon Knight has been something of a conundrum over the years. That's really all I can say plot-wise, because to get into more depth would spoil what makes this collection fun from issue to issue.
He's still crazy, but tonally, the crazy isn't so overpowering that it takes away from how entertaining and interesting this collection is. And when I heard that he and artist Declan Shalvey were bringing back Moon Knight in a continuing series, with a return to the horror edges that birthed this character, I was really excited.Īnd it certainly lived up to my expectations.Įach issue is self-contained, and features a Moon Knight sometimes travelling around the New York city streets in a big white stretch limo and in a white suit and tie and a mask covering his face as he deals with threats both natural and supernatural. But then, he did an arc of SECRET AVENGERS, a series of single-issue self-contained stories that was so incredibly smart and wonderful that I couldn't help but want more.
There were other books like ULTIMATE HUMAN that left me a little cold as well. My first regular experience with him was a very negative one, but I can admit now that was more my fault than his, because he took over writing ASTONISHING X-MEN right after the Joss Whedon/John Cassaday run ended, and the tone was so radically different and so lacking in the same level of enthusiasm for the characters that Joss had displayed, I stopped reading. Bearing in mind, there's a lot of his stuff I haven't read (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, GLOBAL FREQUENCIES), but in some of the stuff I have, he's been a writer that seems to have big ideas that seem to have a very anti-climactic followthrough. Warren Ellis is a writer that I've had varying opinions of.
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