Video Review - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChR-dluVfjo

This Omnibus is really a 3 parter in my view. This Omnibus collects stories mostly in late 80's to early 90s and is a revival for the series. After the original series ended in the first two Omnibus we had Moon Knight go over to West Coast Avengers for awhile. So this is his first Solo series since the original and...well...let's talk about it.

The first 25 issues, which is a large chunk of this Omnibus, is written by Chuck Dixon, or Charles Dixon (Dunno why he changed his name?) And this has Marc Spector back as a superhero, whooping some ass. And this is a lot more like a typical superhero book, with a snappy Marc spitting back lines of a action hero while taking down bad guys.

This is not the same Moon Knight vibe we've come to expect.

And in a way this is probably a positive. Repeating a old run without having the same vibe could ruin it. Now that I've read enough of Dixon stuff, I believe he's a solid entertainment writer, meaning he writes fun superhero romps even if they are kind of hollow in the end.

Just like his Nightwing and Batman runs, Dixon let's Marc have fun being a superhero. Whooping ass, taking names, a little sexist with Marlene because...of course. Don't have to research much to see where Dixon is now days and who he writes with. But I'll save the political stuff for another day. The writing is solid enough to carry these stories even if they hold little to no weight. We know what will happen every issue, Moon Knight will survive, no big twist or turns.

I will say Jeff as Midnight was a fun character. He's the son of a criminal Moon Knight took down prior and now wants to learn from Moon Knight to be a hero. But he's rash, spontaneous, and of course makes a ton of mistakes, leading to some really fun stories with him.

Then, like some miracle of Khonshu, in comes J.M. DeMatteis with a 6 part story arc called Scarlet's Redemption and it's wonderful. Dark and twisted, filled with excellent imagery at times, and a broken man/woman storyline. When Scarlet returns she is not what she was in the previous stories back in the 80s, but instead a woman who can't seem to find herself and seeks something, or someone, to stop these thoughts. On the flipside you have Marc who's trying to be a better person, help people, even through violence, leaving these two to eventually come head to head in a unexpected way but also letting Marc grow tremendously as a character.

This story harken back to the tone and vibe of Doug's run, and man oh man was it a treat. I loved every moment of this arc and really boosted this volume. I almost would say it's as good as volume 1.

Then in came the Hobgoblin...and it was still solid! Only two arcs but it was fun to watch Moon Knight and Spidy stop a insane bastard that also links back to Marc's story. This was a solid story...

Then Round Robin came in. A overly long team up event starring Spider-man, Punisher, Nova, Night Trasher, and eventually Moon Knight a few issues in. Brings back Jeff in a uninteresting, shittier done, Winter Soldier way, and really this team up is overly written, not fun, and nearly put me to sleep not once but TWICE. It felt like a grown man playing with his action figures and trying to have them make a cohesive story. Having a few cool pages of team ups isn't enough for me.

Anyway sadly those last 6 or 7 issues drag this down a bit since it ends on a slog of a read. Saying that, Dixon run is solid superhero fare, similar to all his superhero stuff. It's good but never great. Redemption arc is insanely good and the true spiritual successor to Doug's run. So with those this does get a 3 out of 5 simply to average out the decent Dixon run (2.5-3/5) and excellent redemption run (5/5) and the piss poor round robin run (1.5/5)

So overall rating for the entire Omnibus is a 3/5.