9 Comics You Should Be Reading This Week (18th Oct)
3. Moon Knight #7
Marvel, "Incarnations Part 2 Of 4” Lemire/Stokoe/Francavilla/Bellaire
Worth Reading For: The Mixture of Myth and Madness!
Mercenary Marc Spector died under a statue of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu and was brought back to life by the god himself. Since then he’s been fighting crime and protecting those who travel by night under different guises. Until, that is, he went completely insane.
Jeff Lemire’s (“Descender”) run on “Moon Knight” reads more like the experimental comics of Image than the mainstays of Marvel. The team of artists are the best in the industry and their different styles - reflecting a disturbing modern-day New York, the funky 1970’s, and a dystopian future earth occupied by Space Wolves - make the reader question their own sanity, along with the main character’s.
In #7 artists Francesco Francavilla (“Detective Comics”) and James Stokoe (“Orc Stain”) cultivate the realities Marc Spector slips in and out of and they’re so real and beautifully rendered that nobody knows where they belong. Strap in for dogfights in space, werewolves on the moon and flitting glimpses of a taxicab in 1970s New York. The whole issue is brought together by Eisner Award-winning colourist Jordie Bellaire (“Injection”) into less of a ‘read’ and more of an ‘experience’.