Moon Knight Vol. 3: In The Night (Moon Knight (2014-2015))

Moon Knight is hands down the most awesome hero in the entire Marvel Universe even Taskmaster Wouldn't fight him, He just a fantastic character to read about and the stuff that happens to him is insane but i do kinda miss him changing between Spector, Grant and Lockley but i am loving the new Mr.Knight, seriously why hasn't Moon Knight been given his own TV series yet this character would play brilliantly on screen diving into his split personality disorder and seeing the grim, dark, brutal vigilante of the night cracking skulls and breaking limbs (Well it is rumoured we might get a Moon Knight series on Netflix and if we do id think Andrew Lincoln should be Marc Spector but he'd be to busy with Walking Dead)!!!

What the son wanted.

Issues #13-17 of the latest series (2014) of Moon Knight from Marvel Comics are collected as  Moon Knight Volume 3: In the Night .This volume sees yet another new creative team, but the quality continues, as we return to the stand-alone episodic format of the first volume, but with sub-plots (of a sort) that maintain an air of both mystery and worry. We still don’t know who/what Konshu is, but he’s still trying to crack the whip over Marc Spector, who in turn manages to stand up for himself and assert his independence when occasion demands. We also see other ‘powers’ who Khonshu owes favours to, and some new characters who also claim to be servants of Khonshu. A bigger picture is not quite being revealed to us here, but with the forthcoming Secret Wars, we might not get to see this developed. However, this is still an excellent collection, with Spector in various guises in each episode. I really do want to see more of this series.THE SPOILER ZONETHE SPOILER ZONEIssue #13 - “Footprints” - opens with some unhappy ghosts appearing in Marc Spector’s haunted hotel. Marc doesn’t like ghosts… but Khonshu sends him off to investigate, and he soon discovers that some bad guys are harvesting “residual mortality energy” and bottling it for sale. However, when he seeks to persuade them to take up a different line of work, they deploy some very high-tech weaponry.Issue #14 - “Old Gods’ Favours” - opens with Detective Flint calling in Mr White to examine some corpses at the morgue who have apparently been killed by wolves, for he doesn’t want to see newspaper headlines about “Werewolves by Night”. However, Moon Knight soon finds a pack of dogs attacking the clientele of an upmarket restaurant, and, after fighting them off, is able to follow them to their lair and discover what is really behind their attacks.Issue #15 - “Bogeyman” - opens with a blood-splattered Moon Knight staggering down an alley. He is taken home by some ‘healers’ sent by Khonshu, who admonishes him for going out on his own unsanctioned missions. As it turns out, the monster that Marc was hunting had a little secret that Khonshu doesn’t want Marc to know…Issue #16 - “Angels” - opens with some characters in high-tech flight-suits snatching people off the street. Fortunately, Moon Knight is on the prowl in his Batwing, and after a lot of dogfighting, he tracks one of the survivors to his base, where he finds that they are also apparently following the orders of a “goddess”…Issue #17 - “Duality” - opens with an incognito Marc Spector infiltrating a charity that is recruiting homeless people to become professional beggars. However, for nosy recruits, they also have a sideline in human sacrifice, and to a familiar figure at that…

I read a library copy of the paperback.With Warren Ellis gone from this brave new concept in Moon Knight writing and indeed his successor gone after the second volume we welcome Cullen Bunn as writer to this collection ...and he keeps the tone almost identical.The consistent artwork helps and this new spin on multiple aspects of mental illness or of the god Khonshu bears further scrutiny but still there is little depth to the book.The reader has alot of work to do themselves in interpreting the images presented and the true level of story contained but such work may be just too much of an effort with no ongoing narrative as a reward.

If you enjoyed the previous volumes than you will like this volume. The way it is structured resembles a tv series. Worth buying.