the one you see coming
I know these aren’t original, un-altered comic panels, but damn if they aren’t completely on-brand for my favorite Marvel 3rd-stringer hero:
Indeed; Moon Knight; one of Marvel’s more interesting takes on a particular archetype, has never been a top-tier hero in comics or otherwise. He’s always been a weird, horror-adjacent vigilante with ties, real or imagined (depending on the writer), to ancient gods, a variable power set, and regular crises of identity (why have one secret identity when you can have half-a-dozen?) with niche appeal. That said, he’s been more or less consistently published since the late 70s, and has never not been at least interesting and always visually appealing.
He, and his plots, are kinda nuts, and it looks like the series Disney+ is putting out in March are leaning in to that craziness pretty hard, which is exactly how it should be.
It’s certainly got potential; I kind of like th costume adjustments; it’s eerily comics-accurate, and the textures suggest the character’s ancient Egyptian connections in an interesting way. Oscar Isaac is usually always good (even Apocalypse, which was awful, wasn’t his fault), and Marvel Studios has definitely earned its reputation for competence and quality.
I’m looking forward to it, obviously, but mostly, the mere existence of a Moon Knight tv show is exactly the kind of positive I’m hanging onto hard, what with the rest of civilization being what it is (see, like, every headline, everywhere). If this sort of art is getting top-shelf production, then not everything is wrong with the world.
