Moon Knight #1 (Spoilers.)

[Inhuman X]

I just finished reading it after staying up until the wee hours of the morning for the Comixology digital release... I have to write that it was perhaps the strangest and most interesting first issue comic I have read. My poor mind is still kind of blown so my thoughts are a little scattered. The site review doesn't convey just how surreal this issue is even in small details like how the art and coloring changes from fuzzy to clear depending. They even played with text fonts. The potential invasion of New York looked awesome from the roof top with the sands swallowing the city and the giant pyramid. For some reason this scene made me think of the Necrons from Warhammer 40K lol.

They even had a classic rogue cameo in Stained Glass Scarlet that left me wondering how she might play into this. I am not sure what to make of Marlene either.

What's real?

I don't know.

Is Marc just a nut job? Based on Khonshu's dialogue I am wondering if part of this is about Specter finally settling on one identity to answer the question of who he is once and for all for future stories. If so this is potentially really cool. Maybe he will drive other people crazy for a change.

I was really disturbed some how by the violent orderlies at the hospital. They even used the small details like the comb in one of em's hair to make it more real and gritty. Then the use of ... blow up boxes to highlight little details. Now that I think about it the art is gritty and then shifts...

It has horror. It has strangeness. It has insanity... Wierd Egyptian gods playing with minds and New York monuments... This comic is crazy. Even the bed sheet mask to channel "himself."

I really want to read the next issue like now but I have to wait. I liked it. More thoughts later.

Have you guys read this book yet? What are you thinking about it?

This book is messing with me.

[batnbreakfast]

This sounds awesome and outrageous! I'll tradewait, though

[Inhuman X]

This sounds awesome and outrageous! I'll tradewait, though

...

Don't tell me I am going to be the only guy buying hanging here all alone waiting on some one else to talk Moon Knight with...


Imma talk to those voices in my head and see if one of them is Khonshu.

[Darthkostis]

Well, I'll be getting my copy in about.... 1 month, so, yeah...

[Of Atlantis]

Soon! Work is in the way. Can't wait to pick this issue up.

[chachi]

Headed to the LCS in about an hour, will post after I read.

[Captain Craig]

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Don't tell me I am going to be the only guy buying hanging here all alone waiting on some one else to talk Moon Knight with...


Imma talk to those voices in my head and see if one of them is Khonshu.

No, you're not the only one....just the only one to stay up till midnight while at the earliest most of us will not be getting our copy till later today.
Our thoughts are coming, be patient. You're review makes it sound really trippy though!

[Kuwagaton]

I have to be honest, a part of me didn't want to like it. It's just a very blatant direction, and I haven't been into Lemire otherwise, and the layouts kind of annoy me. But it was good. Head games? Yes please. And I'm all for a retcon if that's where this is going.

[Snidlefighter]

I own every issue of Moon Knight ever published from all his short lived series. This issue was not only the trippiest issues of Moon Knight any writer has ever done but is one of the trippiest #1's I have ever read to a new series. I loved every minute I spent with it. My only hope is that not everyone was turned off by the $4.99 price tag and this series gets the chance to be fleshed out because it seems like it is going to be one hell of a ride; which I will be experiencing until the end.

[Snidlefighter]

I just finished reading it after staying up until the wee hours of the morning for the Comixology digital release... I have to write that it was perhaps the strangest and most interesting first issue comic I have read. My poor mind is still kind of blown so my thoughts are a little scattered. The site review doesn't convey just how surreal this issue is even in small details like how the art and coloring changes from fuzzy to clear depending. They even played with text fonts. The potential invasion of New York looked awesome from the roof top with the sands swallowing the city and the giant pyramid. For some reason this scene made me think of the Necrons from Warhammer 40K lol.

They even had a classic rogue cameo in Stained Glass Scarlet that left me wondering how she might play into this. I am not sure what to make of Marlene either.

What's real?

I don't know.

Is Marc just a nut job? Based on Khonshu's dialogue I am wondering if part of this is about Specter finally settling on one identity to answer the question of who he is once and for all for future stories. If so this is potentially really cool. Maybe he will drive other people crazy for a change.

I was really disturbed some how by the violent orderlies at the hospital. They even used the small details like the comb in one of em's hair to make it more real and gritty. Then the use of ... blow up boxes to highlight little details. Now that I think about it the art is gritty and then shifts...

It has horror. It has strangeness. It has insanity... Wierd Egyptian gods playing with minds and New York monuments... This comic is crazy. Even the bed sheet mask to channel "himself."

I really want to read the next issue like now but I have to wait. I liked it. More thoughts later.

Have you guys read this book yet? What are you thinking about it?

This book is messing with me.

I feel like the Stained Glass Scarlet cameo that you're speaking of was the fight Moon Knight had with her way back in his first series. This is where I am confused though, and contemplating things... Marc is supposedly in a mental hospital yet Moon Knight exists? Crawley who is usually the voice of reason and a key person that brings Marc back from his madness says to not listen to the news piece being played because it is all a lie and fabrication....then a page or so later we find out supposedly that every single issue, story, and volume of Moon Knight has been written tales created by Marc since he was 12 (this is how I took it at least). If this is the case then I guess Marlene is a crush/girl he fantasizes about in his dreams or when drugged by the orderlies? She looks vegetative or possibly lobotomized. I wonder where Frenchie is?

This book is giving me strong "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" vibes and I absolutely loved it. After reading your comment on the art I immediately picked the issue right back up and re-read it.

[Kuwagaton]

I wonder where Frenchie is?

After seeing that Crawley is just some regular old dude (or an actor designed to play Crawley as a regular old dude), I have to wonder if "Frenchie" will even be French.

[Sharkey]

I wonder if anyone else thought the whole archaic "mental asylum" trope was somewhat distasteful?

I rather enjoyed the issue otherwise, but stigmatic stereotypes of abusive orderlies and apathetic psychologists do not sit too well with me. Plastering "Schizophrenic" across the cover I got was a bit much, don't have to try and glorify a condition that shouldn't be!

Positives, the art and the rest of the writing was wonderful though (enough to justify the increased price, for whatever reason that was!) and Moon Knight as a concept is interesting enough for me to carry on. Dream sequences were quite the treat, certainly seeing the clear Egyptian mythological influences.

This issue #1 was certainly not on the same level as the superb Ellis / Shalvey issues but still pretty neat as a whole.

[Darthkostis]

I wonder if anyone else thought the whole archaic "mental asylum" trope was somewhat distasteful?

I rather enjoyed the issue otherwise, but stigmatic stereotypes of abusive orderlies and apathetic psychologists do not sit too well with me. Plastering "Schizophrenic" across the cover I got was a bit much, don't have to try and glorify a condition that shouldn't be!

Positives, the art and the rest of the writing was wonderful though (enough to justify the increased price, for whatever reason that was!) and Moon Knight as a concept is interesting enough for me to carry on. Dream sequences were quite the treat, certainly seeing the clear Egyptian mythological influences.

This issue #1 was certainly not on the same level as the superb Ellis / Shalvey issues but still pretty neat as a whole.

Lemire said that he made the asylum so cliche on purpose, to reinforce the whole real/not real thing.

[Sharkey]

Lemire said that he made the asylum so cliche on purpose, to reinforce the whole real/not real thing.

I'd like to believe so, I vaguely recall Lemire discussing how he wanted to tackle mental health stigma in his interviews. I'll carry on with the book for sure to see if this runs true.

[rellum]

I wonder if anyone else thought the whole archaic "mental asylum" trope was somewhat distasteful?

I rather enjoyed the issue otherwise, but stigmatic stereotypes of abusive orderlies and apathetic psychologists do not sit too well with me. Plastering "Schizophrenic" across the cover I got was a bit much, don't have to try and glorify a condition that shouldn't be!

Positives, the art and the rest of the writing was wonderful though (enough to justify the increased price, for whatever reason that was!) and Moon Knight as a concept is interesting enough for me to carry on. Dream sequences were quite the treat, certainly seeing the clear Egyptian mythological influences.

This issue #1 was certainly not on the same level as the superb Ellis / Shalvey issues but still pretty neat as a whole.

I agree that having 'schizophrenic' plastered on the hip-hop cover was a bit on the nose but I don't mind the mental hospital aspects at all. It's definitely cliche on purpose, but it also helps play into the mystery. The over the top abuse and neglect could be what caused his moon knight fantasies, it could be an exaggeration as part of his condition(s), or it could all be an act by the "staff" and "patients" to make Marc question everything. It could also be intentional to make readers uncomfortable. 'Normal' people that don't let the stigma motivate them will usually be greatly offended to see the mentally ill treated this way, and also this sort of treatment by the supposed "help" can be a very serious concern that may hold someone back from getting the help they need. I understand where you're coming from, but I think the meaning and thoughts behind this aspect are a lot deeper than you're giving them credit for.