Bendis: Moon Knight
Jun. 8th, 2012 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoHave I mentioned lately how much I love the writing of Brian Michael Bendis?
I'm sitting in the cafeteria of the Civic Hospital, waiting for a friend to be through some medical tests. To amuse myself, I brought vol. 1 of Moon Knight, by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. I've wanted it for ages, but I couldn't afford the hardcover. This week, it came out in paperback.
And the end of the first story actually made me gasp in surprise. Once I saw what the story was... Well, really, it ought to have been obvious. But it wasn't. Only in retrospect.
And it wouldn't have worked if Bendis' scripting wasn't so exact, so precise, so clear in it's presentation. I didn't even notice a certain ... fuzziness ... in style, let alone read it as a clue to what I should be seeing.
He's that good.
Beyond that... I'm always thought Moon Knight was a dorky, annoying character. And he was. Now, about a third of the way through volume 1, I think his story is fascinating.
Don't you love it when a comic book character you've always thought stupid, suddenly appears in a brilliant story?
Of course, Bendis has done this before; with Luke Cage, with Jessica jones, with Spider-Woman, with Noh-Varr. Heck, even Spider-Girl. It's his specialty: redeeming the secondary heroes. Turning supid ideas into clever ones.
I'm not sure, but I think this comic has been discontinued. Not a problem, as Bendis no doubt has more stories to tell, more heroes to redeem.
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I'm sitting in the cafeteria of the Civic Hospital, waiting for a friend to be through some medical tests. To amuse myself, I brought vol. 1 of Moon Knight, by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. I've wanted it for ages, but I couldn't afford the hardcover. This week, it came out in paperback.
And the end of the first story actually made me gasp in surprise. Once I saw what the story was... Well, really, it ought to have been obvious. But it wasn't. Only in retrospect.
And it wouldn't have worked if Bendis' scripting wasn't so exact, so precise, so clear in it's presentation. I didn't even notice a certain ... fuzziness ... in style, let alone read it as a clue to what I should be seeing.
He's that good.
Beyond that... I'm always thought Moon Knight was a dorky, annoying character. And he was. Now, about a third of the way through volume 1, I think his story is fascinating.
Don't you love it when a comic book character you've always thought stupid, suddenly appears in a brilliant story?
Of course, Bendis has done this before; with Luke Cage, with Jessica jones, with Spider-Woman, with Noh-Varr. Heck, even Spider-Girl. It's his specialty: redeeming the secondary heroes. Turning supid ideas into clever ones.
I'm not sure, but I think this comic has been discontinued. Not a problem, as Bendis no doubt has more stories to tell, more heroes to redeem.
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