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MOON KNIGHT: CITY OF THE DEAD No. 5, January 2024 |
Furthermore, it’s arguably difficult to imagine that a fair few readers weren’t bitterly disappointed by the all-too short-lived nature of “Jackal Knight’s ultimate ascendance” causing the real world to suffer a supernatural incursion of the Marvel Universe’s most notorious dead super-villains. This tantalisingly peek into the ‘real world’ affairs of Tigra and Hunter’s Moon sadly only lasts a handful of phantom-filled panels. Yet could have so easily been expanded into one the New York City-based publisher’s famous, multi-book Summer events, such as “Blood Hunt” - with the likes of Death Adder, Jack O’Lantern, (the original) Kraven the Hunter and the Nazi vampire Baron Blood all rematerializing as green-hued ghostly apparitions to terrorise the population; “Does the Avengers Handbook say anything about zombie invasions.?”
Setting such quibbles aside though, the American author’s storyline for this twenty-page periodical should still be regarded as something of a success. Artist Marcelo Ferreira’s splash page of Moon Knight’s other persona emerging to battle alongside the Scarlet Scarab in a last stand against overwhelming odds is debatably worth this periodical’s cover price alone. Whilst Spector’s decision to defeat his brother’s vain belief that the masked vigilante has had an easier life as a mercenary than him is satisfying resolved, when Marc takes his delinquent sibling on an emotional, roller-coaster ride through the crime-fighter’s tragic history.
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Writer: David Pepose, Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira, and Inker: Jay Leisten |
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