Moon Knight #2 Review

Writer: Jeff Lemire / Artist: Greg Smallwood / Marvel Comics Alright, let’s get into this shit right here. I wasn’t always an advocate for the Moon Knight series; I made fun of Marc Spector before when he was around in Marvel. I’d say, “who the fuck out here buying Moon Knight?” and I been eating my words with the new take on Marc ever since. Bendis did the damn thing, and so did Waid and Wood’s creative teams as well. I’m like, okay, Lemire is on this book now. He got Marc holed up in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Going with the psychological thriller aspect. I’m down. I’m with it. We see Marc still struggling with what to believe, but also remembering that what is being shown to him now isn’t the truth. He saw the truth with his makeshift Moon Knight mask. He’s even seeing other deities posing as humans that have sided with Set. Cool, I’m with it. We see Marc get the shock therapy and appear before Khonshu. We learn that his meetings with Khonshu take place in a dimension outside of time, the othervoid. I’m like, oh man we’re finally learning more about Khonshu now after all these years. Khonshu tells Marc how Set has found a way out of the void, while he/she and other deities are still trapped. Marc realized this means Khonshu isn’t actually an Egyptian god which prompts Khonshu to say…

Aaaaand that’s where I had to disconnect and say, “The fuck is this?” I understand this is a body of fiction, let’s get that out of the way. This is fiction, yes, the writer is entitl…