Bendis Confirms MOON KNIGHT Ending With Issue #12

wow another cancelled series from marvel..SHOCK! -__-probably so they can make more unnecessary avengers and/or xmen titles.

its like cmon marvel! there are other good characters that people do read its not just all about avengers and xmen! if they cut down on all those titles then people would probably be reading everything outside of the mainstream characters....i saay marvel should do with a reboot after their next couple of events. just like DC's new 52. just saying

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

My local comic shop never remembered to pull the book for me, so it was always a dice roll whether I'd be able to keep up with it month to month. I did. If everyone else had the same problem I did, though, I could see where it would have had trouble finding an audience.

I had hoped the Bendis/Maleev team would have seen a return to the same level of storytelling they produced with Daredevil. I never got into their Moon Knight, though. The art was still beautiful, but the take on the character just didn't connect with me.

I think Moon Knight might just be suffering from revival fatigue. He's been brought back, again and again, in short succession, each time re-tooled with a new mission statement. Let the character stay on the shelf for awhile. Wait for the fan base to build up a renewed hunger for the character, and then try a new series. Take a look at the various series the character has held, and track the sales figures on the series for those years. Look at what worked, what resounded with the fan base. Then build from there. Chances are, if you're a fan of Moon Knight, then you're a fan of Moon Knight's supporting characters and villains. There's no reason not to use them, Considering the series on-again/off-again nature, it's not like all of those characters have been fully explored, or had their stories fully told. There's no reason why a Moon Knight series cannot work. It did work... very well, too... in the 70's & 80's. There's a foundation in place. They just need to build on it.

@InnerVenom123 said:

@iLLituracy said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@iLLituracy said:

As much as I like Moon Knight...this better be his last series for a long while. And then InnerVenom123 will write a new one, and it will be amazing. Man, I love that guy. Seriously, I want his children. Inside of me.

:')

That is what I said.

You are the wind beneath my wings.

O__o

Figured this would happen. Just want to die in a hole now. ;-(

Hopefully something better happens in the future, i knew this wasn't gonna last long though the way Moon Knight fans have been about the series. It brought in new readers but alienated the old ones badly. Here's to a creative team that can bring in both in the short/long future!

@k4tzm4n said:

/throws confetti

Fantastic news! How about we hand Moon Knight back to Mike Benson? The 2006 run should have never been cancelled.

I whole-fully agree. He seemed to have grasped how to write a great comic towards the end.

@InnerVenom123: Well said. Maybe next time they'll get it right and go with classic personalities, weapons, etc.

@zackattack529: They need to change something

@Emac: Give me a break. Get over it, it's a comic character, and I doubt it was personal in the least. It was something that needed to be done as well. It's about time that some of these characters die off, and we are allowed to have new interesting characters come up in their place. How many times are you going to read what is essentially the same story over and over, and never experience anything new? come on now. Don't hate just because he killed of a fictional character you seemed to enjoy. Last time I checked Peter is alive and kicking in the 612 as it is. So not a big deal.

@dreadmaster said:

@k4tzm4n said:

/throws confetti

Fantastic news! How about we hand Moon Knight back to Mike Benson? The 2006 run should have never been cancelled.

I whole-fully agree. He seemed to have grasped how to write a great comic towards the end.

:D

Honestly, I think they need to go back from scratch with moon knight. start with his origin and build up, maybe even reboot him and change his origin and story

Well this just sucks. Sure the series was not Moon Knight's finest, but at least when Vengeance was canceled he was still on the Secret Avengers. Now between Remender taking him off that team and the Bendis book going under Moon Knight just fades into the background until next time. Marvel quit killing, ruining, or cancelling my favorite heroes!!!

@BransonHuggins said:

@Emac: Give me a break. Get over it, it's a comic character, and I doubt it was personal in the least. It was something that needed to be done as well. It's about time that some of these characters die off, and we are allowed to have new interesting characters come up in their place. How many times are you going to read what is essentially the same story over and over, and never experience anything new? come on now. Don't hate just because he killed of a fictional character you seemed to enjoy. Last time I checked Peter is alive and kicking in the 616 as it is. So not a big deal.

Fixed.

Let this be a lesson. The excitement of Brian Michael Bendis returning to writing a noir street level book cannot eclipse the hatred readers have for Brian Michael Bendis making characters insane and doing whatever he wants with them.

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

wow another cancelled series from marvel..SHOCK! -__-probably so they can make more unnecessary avengers and/or xmen titles.

its like cmon marvel! there are other good characters that people do read its not just all about avengers and xmen! if they cut down on all those titles then people would probably be reading everything outside of the mainstream characters....i saay marvel should do with a reboot after their next couple of events. just like DC's new 52. just saying

love to see bendis and Alex Maleev back on daredevil in the future !!

  @Emac said:

Bendis killed Peter Parker, why should I ever read anything else that he ever touches? I know that other characters have died, I'm not an idiot, but that seemed personal. Bendis is dead to me.

@InnerVenom123 said:

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

Exactly! I don't get where some people get this "Jake and Grant were his split personalties" from? He was undercover people. It's how law enforcement get their intel. Is every undercover agent in the world suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder just because they're posing as a criminal?

Moon Knight's only aspect of "insanity" is talking to an Egyptian God that no one else can see. Has been since volume 1. But does talking to your god and having them talk back actually mean you're insane anyway? I think that's debatable.

In the end, I'm happy that this series has ended. Hopefully the character will get a reboot in a few years and we can all pretend this never happened :)

Well theres a shocker. And i love Moon Knight.

@Danial79 said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

Exactly! I don't get where some people get this "Jake and Grant were his split personalties" from? He was undercover people. It's how law enforcement get their intel. Is every undercover agent in the world suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder just because they're posing as a criminal?

Moon Knight's only aspect of "insanity" is talking to an Egyptian God that no one else can see. Has been since volume 1. But does talking to your god and having them talk back actually mean you're insane anyway? I think that's debatable.

In the end, I'm happy that this series has ended. Hopefully the character will get a reboot in a few years and we can all pretend this never happened :)

If the god is real, you're not crazy. If the god is not real, you're crazy.

Khonshu's proven to be real, so Moon Knight talking to Khonshu may make people THINK he's crazy, but he's not.

@Danial79 said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

Exactly! I don't get where some people get this "Jake and Grant were his split personalties" from? He was undercover people. It's how law enforcement get their intel. Is every undercover agent in the world suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder just because they're posing as a criminal?

Moon Knight's only aspect of "insanity" is talking to an Egyptian God that no one else can see. Has been since volume 1. But does talking to your god and having them talk back actually mean you're insane anyway? I think that's debatable.

In the end, I'm happy that this series has ended. Hopefully the character will get a reboot in a few years and we can all pretend this never happened :)

I've always tried to explain the "undercover" part. But never had it on my mind at the time. Thank you for clearing that up.

I cant help but feel the price has a bit to do with this. I hear great things about the series, hope they collect it in a nice single volume hardback. I'd love to read it.

@longbowhunter said:

I cant help but feel the price has a bit to do with this. I hear great things about the series, hope they collect it in a nice single volume hardback. I'd love to read it.

This. It sounds great.

@G-Man said:

Too bad.

But maybe eventually Maleev may start working with another writer. I'd like to see that.

@perry_411 said:

It was awful. I lost all interest 5 issues in, and sales agreed with me. Bye Moon Knight.

5 issues? Man I applaud your pain threshold sir. I read issue one and I just couldn't man. Just couldn't go forward. Perhaps Marc will get the book he deserves one day.

@InnerVenom123 said:

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

EXACTLY!!! I didn't mind when marc snapped an retreated into those personas to deal with his problems. It made sense and was well handled. Bendis though...sigh, he writes the mentally ill with all the sensitivity and understanding as a Nazi running a concentration camp would Jews. And the way he wrote Marc seemed very regressive to me and threw out the progress he had made in soldering his fractured psyche.

As a MK fan I'm sad to see the title go but I'm happy that it means Bendis isn't writing it anymore. Bendis didn't do what he said he was going to do when he started the title and that was to do things with MK that hasn't been done before....MK is not just the mask but the man behind it as well and he seemed to just forgo MS almost completely.

Also as a whole Bendis is shit when he's doing stuff that isn't his own. I dropped the Avengers books because all the characters where Spidey clones. I hope he just sticks with creator owned stuff.

I remember Moon Knight being cancelled is in the 90s, because they got that Stephen Platt to draw it and for some reason he got this hyped-up vibe to work because they say it was 'like Todd McFarlane's' and he signed his name 'SPLATT'. Then the book ended he went to work for Liefeld on the Prophet series.

Wasn't there one not two years ago that was drawn by David Finch?

But...but that means I'll be only buying one Marvel title a month soon.

This is not good news.

Everyone knows the series is just a prelude to Moonpoint anyways.

Well, as they say.. Nothing lasts forever~

I usually enjoy Moon Knight, but recently the books just haven't been able to hold my attention. I'd like to see another cosmic title like Nova and/or Guardians of the Galaxy brought back, and finally find out what REALLY happened to Nova Prime and Star-Lord. You KNOW they aren't really dead.

@Danial79 said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@inferiorego said:

MK originally started as a character with multiple personalities. If anything, Bendis brought the character a bit more to his roots.

He wasn't insane though. When he started, they were personas that he used to gather information. Lockley for the streets, Grant for upper class.

Exactly! I don't get where some people get this "Jake and Grant were his split personalties" from? He was undercover people. It's how law enforcement get their intel. Is every undercover agent in the world suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder just because they're posing as a criminal?

Moon Knight's only aspect of "insanity" is talking to an Egyptian God that no one else can see. Has been since volume 1. But does talking to your god and having them talk back actually mean you're insane anyway? I think that's debatable.

In the end, I'm happy that this series has ended. Hopefully the character will get a reboot in a few years and we can all pretend this never happened :)

That's what I always thought

Damn i am really enjoying this run !!

@Baddamdog said:

I'll say what I said in the other forum:

I never read the series but it's always a shame when a 'small time' hero's ongoing is canceled. Plus the art was very pretty. And it was good that Echo had a place again. Although then again the whole concept of the series was a deliberate attempt in cashing in on the success of other heroes and trying to assosciate them with a minor one. I just find that insulting to the character. Not having faith in a character like that is shameful.

Art was pretty? I thought it sucked. Sucked HARD!

@jkeener71: Maleev's style is very love or hate, imho.

these series is the best thing going on Marvel besides TWO BEST SERIES OUT OF ANY COMPANY (yea i see u DC fans) - Daredevil & Punisher - so, yeah, its a shame smh

@JMLG: LOLWUT? Strongly disagree.

Man this sucks.

@k4tzm4n said:

@jkeener71: Maleev's style is very love or hate, imho.

I hear you. On a scale from 1 to 10, 1 being awesome, 10 being crap.

Maleev gets a 9, which is pretty crappy. 90% of my posts are complaining about how much I hate his art. LOL!

I just pray the next artist doesn't suck as bad as he does.

how to increase sales on moon knight:

1) Retitle the series to "X-Men: Moon Knight."

2) Profit.

@Gordo789 said:

how to increase sales on moon knight:

1) Retitle the series to "X-Men: Moon Knight."

2) Profit.

You lost me at #2

SONOFA $!#^%

@haydenclaireheroes: and the answer is... $$$

poor moonie, he and alpha flight never get any love

With all the Avengers titles out (as well as new ones announced), they should relaunch West Coast Avengers and have Moon Knight as the leader :P

Moon Knight is an amazing series but they don't seem to have many fans.

@Danial79 said:

With all the Avengers titles out (as well as new ones announced), they should relaunch West Coast Avengers and have Moon Knight as the leader :P

I actually really like that idea.