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Moon Knight Epic Collection Vol. 1: Bad Moon Rising by David Anthony Kraft, Doug Moench, Roger Slifer, John David Warner, Bill Mantlo
4.0

Reading the Omnibus figured I'd review a good portion of it that's collected it epic eollection volume 1.

So the first half is mostly one shots of Moon Knight's first appearances. Coming in almost as a villain but redeeming himself by the end when hunting the werewolf guy. Then he dips into the Defenders a bit and that's okay. He even teams up with Spidy, because Spidy sells, so hooray all around!

But then we get into solo Moon Knight and MAN is it good and surprisingly dark. So Moon Knight does a few missions, being that he switches between his different secret identities (This is before he gets the whole split personality thing) and by the end of the storyline we get one about Marc's brother and his revenge on him. He's basically a serial killer going around murdering people with a hatchet till he finds his brother.

It's thrilling and brutal, way more than I expected, and by the end I was worried about multiple characters. Then we actually have Marc deal with the fallout, which is also great and worked maturely.

Then we finally get to the first 4 issues of the main Moon Knight run. First issue being his origin, which I already knew pretty well. But then we get one shots, but they're all dark and some right down sad. We also set up Marc's team of help, a diner waitress, a bum, and two teenagers plus his helicopter pilot, his sexy girlfriend Marlene, and his butler. This is a crazy ass team yet works well in context.

So to say I really enjoyed this by the end would be underselling it. I liked the second half so much I bought volume 2 of the Omnibus the next day. Can't wait to read more. This is a very solid 4 out of 5.