![]() ![]() Khonshu attempts to simplify the character by dropping the confusing alternate personalities of Jake Lockley and Steven Grant, then recomplicates everything by giving Moon Knight magical powers and visions projected to him by mysterious monks. ![]() ![]() Thus began the beginning of the Moon Knight curse that I’ve written about before, in which each successive Moon Knight title decides to woefully ignore vast swaths of established behavior, plot points, and supporting cast members. and creating a tidied, ostensibly streamlined status quo in 1985’s Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, which attempted to keep the character’s adult themes. Which meant moving him into an all-ages membership position in Steve Englehart and Al Milgrom’s West Coast Avengers. Editorial likely felt that he should step out of the shady shops and into view. ![]() One might expect that this did not mean that Moon Knight was a particularly accessible or vital character in the Marvel Universe. By being in those specialty stores, these boundary-pushing stories could avoid the grasping hands of children expecting bright colors at the traditional newsstand. It dealt with more mature themes rendered gloomily by visual dynamo Bill Sienkiewicz. Moench’s Moon Knight had lived in an experimental space - it was one of the few Marvel books that only sold at “specialty shops? (which later became known as “comic book stores”), targeting a “more sophisticated audience”. ![]()
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