Moon Knight by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev Hardcover – 20 Mar. 2018

A disappointing return of the creative team that redefined Daredevil for the last two decades. A misguided attempt at making Moon Knight more accessible to the mainstream by replacing the characters notorious Multiple Personalities with imaginary versions of then Avengers; Captain America, Spider-man and Wolverine. The idea of a Moon Knight who develops split personalities of famous Avengers in order to mimic their gimmicks could have been interesting with better execution

“Moon Knight – Complete Collection (Bendis & Maleev)” collects the twelve-issue series from 2011.This is obviously a child of its time, one when I was only slowly getting back into comics, and I don’t remember reading this, though I did buy this creative team’s Daredevil run in Omnibuses shortly before then, and they had their ups and downs, but mostly ups.This felt like a Marvel Knights series, and I was a bit confused at first, as I had lost track of where Moon Knight was in his evolution from master of disguise in his original appearances (which I read at the time of first publication) to the multiple personality disorder that the most recent series’ have been showcasing from 2014 onwards.I started typing this with a 4-star rating at the top of the page, but as I think about it, I’m edging towards five.This showcases Mr Bendis’s conversational style at its most garrulous, and it sometimes slows the flow of the story down, but it is still a cut above regular superhero comics at any rate (unintentional pun there), and it is still a very entertaining story.This is a story for grown-up readers, about grown-up superheroes, and was very entertaining, and so a five-star rating it shall be, then.

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