Moon Knight #3 - "Box"

[arbre_rieur]

"I thought it would be amusing to provide a book that could be entered at any point and still give the reader a complete experience. Which goes against the grain a bit, because the modern commercial-comics reader has been very much entrained to expect long arcs rather than singles. I’m sure there are plenty of complaints out there about the lack of character arcs or long stories. But the book is still getting bought and reordered. So I guess we found an audience after all." -- Warren Ellis

Comments

[kd_the_movie]

I love the new book and am eagerly trade waiting. I hope Shalvey can stay on the book for awhile.

[silverhammerman]

Sadly both Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey are leaving the book soon, I think #6 is to be their final issue, though Shalvey will stay on covers. I only hope the revamp sticks around in the long term.

The book will continue, with art by Greg Smallwood and writing by Brian Wood. So make of that what you will, personally while I like Smallwood, I'm not exactly thrilled about Brian Wood, given that whole scandal a few months ago.

[big_daddy_d]

What scandal?

[tugrul]

I believe they mean this scandal.

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/124930-tess-fowler-brian-wood-is-a-dick.html

[leoboiko]

Any news on what wil Ellis work on next?

[aperturedreams]

Ellis is working on his new comic "Trees" and a new version of Supreme called Supreme: Blue Rose.

[leoboiko]

Thanks! 👍

[silverhammerman]

Love this series, Ellis' conceptual revamp of Moon Knight is really cool and I think it'll be fun for other writers to use in the future.

My only issue so far is that the issues all have kind of perfunctory endings, which can be a bit unsatisfying. It feels like Ellis would rather just do the high concept stuff and prefers not to delve to much into the character of Moon Knight now that he's put a new spin on him. Not that that's a problem, but the endings to tend to feel abrupt and kind of like an afterthought.

[rainspirit]

From Ellis' ORBITAL OPERATIONS Mailing List:

The job has been, simply, reactivating MOON KNIGHT as a productive property for the Marvel IP library. And, in personal terms, producing six single stories that held together, because I thought it would be amusing to provide a book that could be entered at any point and still give the reader a complete experience. Which goes against the grain a bit, because the modern commercial-comics reader has been very much entrained to expect long arcs rather than singles. I’m sure there are plenty of complaints out there about the lack of character arcs or long stories. But the book is still getting bought and reordered. So I guess we found an audience after all.

So yeah, on some levels it's a very corporate job, but when the stories are this good then I can't complain too much.

[thanekos]

He's bought so much stuff, he has enough restless dead for a poker game.

[doodleboy]

Punching ghosts.

[pyynk]

What I'm wondering, is Ellis referencing Chuck Berry or Colin Haye with the music box?