Author: Cullen Bunn
Artists: German Peralta
Overview:
Cullen
Bunn continues his run on Moon Knight in issue #16. This time Moon
Knight is up against villains with jet packs. That's right, Marc
Spector must use his fancy gadgets to take down high flying fanatics.
This can easily be a stand alone issue for a Moon Knight tale, but
clearly Bunn is trying to creating a bigger picture. Peralta's
artwork attempts to create a brutal, violent, gritty vibe for this
issue. In the past few issues, Spector has shown how he deals with
baddies that are either supernatural or non-supernatural as Mr.
Knight, but can he hang with four jet pack enthusiasts?
Synopsis:
Along
the streets of New York City, a group of friends are walking and
chatting with each other. Suddenly, two of them are swooped away by
the jet pack antagonists. Four of them fly towards their “nest”
with their captives, then abruptly are ambushed by Moon Knight with
his Moon glider (or Moon Drone?).
The
jet pack assailants drop their captives off and focuses their
attention on Moon Knight. Moon Knight discharges two mini drones to
rescue the captives from their fall. The four assailants begin to
engage Moon Knight; Moon Knight's first counter is releasing a swarm
of crescent-shape darts towards the assailants, which manages to take
out one of them. Moon Knight's second counter measure is unleashing a
horde of missiles; however, the assailants manages to take out the
missiles with their guns, but this buys Moon Knight time to disappear
for a moment.
They
use this moment to plan their escape, then one of the assailants
points out to the moon in the night. His partner states “That's no
moon...it's a space station!”(just kidding, he doesn't really say
that, but that was the first thing that popped up in my head).
Moon
Knight orders two of his drones to go on a kamikaze run on two of the
three adversaries; killing both of them. The last enemy takes off and
Moon Knight takes pursuit. The Moon glider's engine, all of a sudden
and I'm not sure why, explodes. He then ejects and must rely on his
last mini drone to chase his last high flying foe.
Moon
Knight tracks him down to an abandon oil rig platform. There he finds
a group of other captives, including an idol that resembles the jet
pack assailants. The captives informs Moon Knight that the jet pack
gang have been kidnapping them, so that they can feed the “raptor
god”. The assailant pops out and calls Spector a traitor to their
god (I'm assuming he's referring to the Moon god “Khonsu”?). He
remarks that his crew and him were promised to be transformed into
“angels” for their offerings to her. He then tries to shoot down
Moon Knight, but accidentally takes out the idol. Moon Knight knocks
him out and then releases the prisoners.
Review:
I
have this feeling that Cullen Bunn is trying to build a larger story
with lots of teases such as this issue. Again, this issue seems like
it can be a one and done kind of story. The artwork by Peralta, along
with Dan Brown for coloring, created a great visual display of the
aerial combat in this issue. Especially when Spector unleashes his
moonerangs and hides himself as the moon. There wasn't much
interacting, dialogue, or characterization in this issue. At most,
reading it felt like watching an action flick. Hopefully, Bunn will
lead Moon Knight into a story where he must face off against
something that pushes him to the edge instead of displaying how
bad-ass of a character Moon Knight is. If you want to read a cool
Moon Knight issue, go ahead and pick this up, but don't expect much
from it.
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