Moon Knight #1 Review

Writer: Jeff Lemire/ Artist: Greg Smallwood /Marvel Comics Listen, man. Maaaan… *Gets up from seat and walks away from computer. Stares at self in the mirror sayin’, “you get back in there and tell them folks the glory of this book. You tell them the truth! TALK TO ‘EM!” Sits back down in chair, deep breath, goes into Avatar state* I said, Booooi, I’ll tell you what! We got that new Moon Knight with a new writer but that same Greg Smallwood piff. This is the other side of Moon Knight we’ve been waiting for. This is the psychologically unbalanced Marc Spector we’ve been waiting to read. We open with Marc Spector in a mental institution. Shit is rough here, and he’s got orderlies beating his ass Nurse Ratchet-style (let’s see how many young readers get that reference) and he’s being fed drugs to keep him doped up. At certain points you aren’t sure if this is a comic book story or a social commentary on how we treat the mentally ill. Lemire is making his impact known from jump as we navigate this new world that Marc finds himself in. We’re seeing the other patients in the series as people from his past that Spector is having trouble remembering. The kicker here is that the doctor is telling Marc that he’s had Dissociative Identity Disorder since childhood — that his time as Moon Knight wasn’t real and was merely fan fiction from a journal. Meanwhile there’s another Moon Knight on the TV fighting crime.

Lemire does a perfect job having the reader right there with Spector, tr…