Warning: Contains spoilers for Moon Knight: Fist of Honshu #1! moon night is making his violent return to Marvel Comics in the first issue of his upcoming series, which will usher in a whole new era for the brutal antihero – and it’s literally pulling no punches. Not only does his upcoming comic make clear that Moon Knight is truly unstoppable, it also reframes his past defeats as nothing more than calculated maneuvers to achieve a greater goal. In other words, this is perhaps the deadliest Moon Knight depicted – indeed, he is “Dressed to kill“.
In a preview shared by Comicbook.com for Moon Knight: Fist of Honshu #1 by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio, Moon Knight strolls into a seedy nightclub looking for a pair of targets who are about to face his wrath. He does so as his old self Mr. Knight, seemingly in keeping with the club’s strict dress code (as he cheekily notes in the preview).
Meanwhile, two people are sitting in a diner, talking about the return of Moon Knight. One is a police officer named Fraser, the other an ex-cop named Flint. Flint left the force after working alongside Moon Knight, as he saw firsthand the horrific nature of his brand of vigilante justice. Flint tries to tell Frasier to leave Moon Knight alone, saying that the anti-hero is completely unstoppable, and compares him to a deadly hurricane.
What happened to Moon Knight to lead to his violent return?
Luna Knight sacrificed himself in moon night Vol. 9 #30
Moon Knight: Fist of Honshu Marks the violent return of the antihero to the Marvel Universe – but where did he go? in moon night Vol. 9 #30, Marc Spector and his team (The Midnight Mission) are working to defeat a villain called the Black Spectre, who has a resonator device with the power to drive the citizens of New York City insane, and eventually kill them. After Black Specter fatally shot Moon Knight, the anti-hero gathered all his strength to bring up the resonator, sacrificing himself in the process.
That moment was the end of Moon Knight’s last streak, and he wouldn’t return from the grave until Blood dog #4, when Honshu decides to resurrect his ideal avatar to fight a horde of vampires alongside the Avengers. Now that the vampires have been defeated, and the world has returned to its version of ‘normal’, Moon Knight has resumed his mission to defend the travelers of the night. And, based on what the preview shows, he’s back with a vengeance.
Moon Knight’s new era redefines its previous ‘defeats’
Not only does this preview note the fact that Moon Knight’s death was decidedly less than permanent (meaning that the previous ‘defeat’ became a full-on victory), but it also reframes another ‘defeat’. in Devil’s ruleWhen the Kingpin (as Mayor Fisk) made it illegal to be a superhero/vigilante in New York City, Mona Knight was defeated by the Thunderbolts and sent to prison. However, as Flint clarifies, Moon Knight wanted to get captured. One of his goals was locked in prison, and the only way to get to him was to go there himself.
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Kingpin only gave Moon Knight the perfect opportunity to get arrested without doing anything wrong in Devil’s Rain, effectively playing right into Moon Knight’s hands and unwittingly assisting in his mission. Indeed, Moon Knight does not lose, and his return proves that he really cannot be killed. now, moon night went into his new era not only “Dressed to kill“, but as a truly unbeatable hero.
Moon Knight: Fist of Honshu #1 by Marvel Comics is available October 16, 2024.
Source: Comicbook.com
Moon Knight stars Oscar Isaac as Steven Grant, a gift-shop employee in London who discovers he has dissociative identity disorder. He shares a body with Marc Spector and together, they travel to Egypt to uncover a deadly mystery surrounding the gods. moon night It consisted of six episodes and was the fifth live-action television show in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4. Also starring in the series is Ethan Hawke as the villain Arthur Harrow and May Kalamavi as Layla El-Faouli.