Aris: I have to be honest I haven't cared for the character since...well since the Bill Sienkiewicz run way back in the eighties which was pretty amazing and the Fist of Khonshu stuff. But I really do not like the character. I heard he was a monster hunter recently. Which to me is kind of silly. OK...maybe I enjoyed some of the West Coast Avengers stuff.
He is in Secret Avengers and I will probably enjoy that. But he is not the major reason.
The character has potential. I am not sure he has lived up to it or Marvel's direction with character has lived up to it for some time. Great Costume.
Xylon: Great costume indeed. I especially have a great appreciation for the fact that it is basically a batman rip off. but he is legitimately crazy so i would like to see him actually go there and be crazy. what's your take on the schizophrenia thing?
Aris: I like it. It can be issued to add intensity to the book. And make him uniquely unpredictable.
Which could be fun. And her has to be brutal. I mean really brutal. To they point where its almost criminal.
his villains have to be absolutely deviant and inhuman. And pace in the Egyptian mysticism. Build to something big and unexpected.
Xylon: I think it would be great if he could actually try and find himself as a person and realize that without Khonshu he would have no identity, his least stable aspect is the one that is his anchor.
Aris: That works. i am really getting into Moon Knight now.
In the middle of a Secret Avengers mission he should brutalize Antman...
And then go on the run.
Xylon: I think that would be incredible. :) i never read Fist what was that about?
Aris: It was basically a cleaner version of the character. Less crazy, more in tune with the mythical stuff. I remember enjoying the art and the fact that he was given some supernatural power.
In any incarnation I believe he should have that and his sacred weapons. So when he goes crazy he is dangerous to his super-powered friends or allies....never mind the people he is close to . So he become a recluse. Hunting down evil doers and sometimes on quests from the Eqyptian dieties.
Could be fun. Should be drawn by Rags Morales.
Xylon: He should meet the ones that came before him, somehow like a place where he can meet them them but accidentally absorbs them into his schizophrenia so he has multiple personalities that are all different moon knights.
Aris: I kinda like the idea that he is REALLY crazy. He is like a dangerous unpredictable Jack Bower (sp?) from 24 with enhanced physical attributes based on the Moon cycle.
I think you got hit with the book Xylon!!! great character. He did a brief stint with the Defenders too. Early on. Back in the Valkyrie days and faced off with Wonder Man of all things.
Man comics were crazy back in the day.
Xylon: Haha So is that your story him going and hunting villains? and what do you mean about me getting hit with the book
Aris: If you or some one would write Moon Knight like this I would buy it!
nah. My idea is a super hero who is nuts. And over the top violent. And his gods need him to straighten out quick..
And be their hero...nut outs gonna end up epic fail no matter what.
Xylon: I would write just about any character so someone would buy it. :)
I kinda like the idea that there were more before him. and because he's a paranoid schizophrenic when he hears about other moonknights and traces of history they left behind he becomes paranoid that it's just him from the future trying to ruin the past, it would be a great story to show him lashing out against himself and his own stability. I kinda like him being like mr. hyde from league of extraordinary gentlemen. he would be the one you found over the brutally massacred two bit villain.
Aris: I am curious to see how he fits into the team dynamic now that he is part of Secret Avengers. I don't see him as a plays nice with others type. Besides from Antman...I didn't get a unique vibe off any of the characters. Its more about the story and Moon Knight seems inserted for no real unique purpose.
Xylon: Well remember back in civil war when cap told him to sit it out, maybe steve is just realizing that he needs a wildcard for whatever it is they are doing now.
Aris: Wild. Yeah. He should have a crazy off with Deadpool.
Xylon: What' great is that he is quiet and brooding he doesn't have banter or wit. he could really pose as any hero in the city's streets and no one would know. especially daredevil.
Aris: Yeah imagine it they team up and Deadpool is wise cracking and Moon Knight is just there grinding bones to dust.
Xylon:I would like to see Moon Knight and werewolf by night hang out or more of the old horror characters from the eighties and nineties.
Aris: Even better. Werewolf would be there dumbfounded....disgusted by Moon Knights violence. And he's a monster!
Xylon: Agreed. I also think I like him being like a silent Deadpool, chaotic and at times very intricate. I would love to see him take out a whole a drug deal with like an obnoxiously intricate set up of wires and bullets and shit. it would just show that mix of crazy and brilliance. people call him marvels Batman but i think he is almost supersane, like the Joker.
Aris:Works for me.
Xylon: So my next, what is you like about the costume?
Aris: Simple and elegant like Daredevil's...only scarier. I like the one color and even though its white he is invisible in the dark.
Its perfect for the urban night vigilante!
It needs no tweaks
Perfection.
Xylon: I like the way his predecessor looked in S.H.I.E.L.D. #1
Aris: ( not a fan of revisionist Marvel history. Hate that there were other Iron Fists too.
Xylon:
It took Marvel a long time to figure out what this character could be. The result has been well worth the wait. Back in the 80's, my parents would stop at the comic shop and I would always shoot straight for the Moon Knight books. My brother could never understand why. Almost 20 years later, now I got an answer for him.
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