It’s kind of a thing in literature these days to have unreliable narrators. Books like Girl on the Train tells the story through the eyes of a character who is completely within her own world. So the cool part is finding out what “really” happens in the story, because you can’t trust the person telling it to you. The one main character in the Marvel Universe that this happens to is Moon Knight. That’s why this book was my first read this week.
I have mentioned my fondness for the writing of Jeff Lemire, and he now is taking up the insane world of Marc Spector, the Moon Knight. In this book, Marc is in a hospital getting beat up by orderlies. Marc then learns from his doctor that he’s been in the same hospital since he was 12 and Moon Knight is just a delusion. He doesn’t remember anything and still hears the voice of the Egyptian god Khonshu, guiding him to fight his way free from his captivity. So, what is “really” happening? Since it’s a comic, we assume that there really is a god and that Manhattan is being overrun with flying dog headed warriors. But that would be crazy. Right?
The artwork by Greg Smallwood with colors by Jordie Bellaire is pretty cool. During the flashback sequences, Greg uses a colored pencil style where the lines are not smooth and inked. (Kind of like Gene Colan back in the day) And even plays with the panels. There is one page where Marc is going through electroshock and the panels form a large exclamation point. One thing to note is that reading this through Comixology, I didn’t see this element. But on looking through the print book, it was very obvious and made the page more dramatic.
So I will definitely continue picking up Moon Knight. The character is bat shit crazy, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Jeff Lemire tells his story.
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