Lol next series.....in probably 10 years.

He'll be back. Even if Bendis' great finishing move is to kill him, he'll be back. He's die several times before.

@John Valentine said:

No more crappy Moon Knight!. Marvel should just let Moon Knight die. He's had three attempts at series in the last four/five years and each one has massively flopped.

@xlizen said:

I just finished collecting all 60 issues of Marc Spector: Moon Knight so I'm gonna start reading those.

I've been reading them recently (though I'm still missing the final 10) and I'm really enjoying it. Scarlet Redemption was a great arc, as are the team-ups with Spidey and Punisher. They should have included MK in the Omega Effect storyline... though that would have required him to be back in NYC :/

You're a fool. You personally, and all the other whiners, are the ones who killed this run. Marvel puts their most successful and highest earning writer on a Moon Knight book that really wasn’t THAT bad and it can’t sell because idiots like you post nothing but the negative. “MK will never die, we won’t let him!” YOU JUST DID my friend, thanks. “No more Bendis, no more Maleev crappy art” Well No more Moon Knight, for a long long time, because if an Eisner Award winning duo can’t sell, who will? You just bit your nose to spite your face BIG TIME.

Meleev is a great artist, they people that don't like him are just to used to generic "super hero" art

Didn't know that people hated the art. I thought most loved it.
BB

@ClutchWarfare said:

[...] it can’t sell because idiots like you post nothing but the negative.

Are you suggesting we should buy the book even if we aren't liking it? People always say, "vote with your wallet," and that's obviously what has happened. Just because Bendis has won an Eisner Award, that does not make him infallible, and this series fell flat the second Moon Knight started cosplaying as Avengers. It was just a poor idea, plain and simple, and that is why it didn't sell. If people--or as you call them, "idiots"--post negativity, there's obviously a reason for it. I wouldn't worry though, Moon Knight will be back. He's been around for 30 years now, and I know for a fact that there are fans of his within the Marvel ranks (including Dan Slott), so it's only a matter of time :)

You did vote, congratulations on your victory. Moon Knight has been canceled and sent to the Marvel basement. You win... For more info on the next MK series be sure to check out his usage from 1994 to 2006. See y'all in the year 2024! "Idiots" was harsh, my bad. But If anyone doesnt see where Im coming from with the "bite your nose to spite your face" remark maybe they deserve the title.

@John Valentine said:

@sethysquare said:

Great character, wrong company. If hes placed in DC it'll probably be written by Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder and company. Seems like Marvel just cant keep an ongoing for a non xmen, avenger, ff or spider.

You mean.... like Batman? That's a surprise.

Batman belongs to DC just fine, if anything, the quality of the comics, animated series and movie proves it.

I doubt marvel could ever produce anything like BTAS. Its not a dig at marvel, just that Batman works so much better than DC.

Moon knight is a great character, he was successful once and he can be again. Bendis wasn't the right writer for moon knight, his blatant disregard for continuity, his terrible dialogue, and the $3.99 price tag didn't help sales AT ALL! Everyone remember captain america in the early 2000s? after his god awful heroes reborn was canceled, they tried marvel knights for captain america and it lasted just as long as Houston/Benson's run on moon knight give or take the annuals, after this book was canceled they gave him to Christopher Priest and it tanked hard. No one thought cap could hold his own ongoing, then, Ed Brubaker came along and knocked it out of the park. moon knight is in a similar situation. Warren Ellis wrote a fantastic moon knight in his six secret avengers one-in-done's. Give it to him and, maybe, Darick Robertson after he is done with the boys. NO character is incapable of success, if you think otherwise you're a goddamn fool.

@GiantsizeManThing said:

Moon knight is a great character, he was successful once and he can be again. Bendis wasn't the right writer for moon knight, his blatant disregard for continuity, his terrible dialogue, and the $3.99 price tag didn't help sales AT ALL! [...] NO character is incapable of success.

This is true. Each writer has their own style, and Bendis' sitcom dialogue and penchant for mental illness just weren't right for the job. Moon Knight really needs a noir writer in my opinion. Huston and Finch got it right in 2006 (pretty much every Moon Knight fan agrees that The Bottom is his best arc) but then subsequent writers/artists failed to capture this same tone, and the series quickly went downhill. Vengeance of the Moon Knight tried turning him into a Batman/Iron-Man hybrid, and that didn't work either. I agree with GMT, in that, Warren Ellis has written the best Moon Knight since Huston. It's a shame that he hasn't appeared in Remender's run yet, because I'd be interested to see how he would handle him. As I said, MK has fans still at Marvel, so he will be back :)

Note: I asked Dan Slott on Formspring whether we would ever see a Moon Knight/Spider-Man team-up like in the Round Robin days and he replied:

Sure. Why not? I love Moon Knight! He's one of my favorites.

@John Valentine said:

No more crappy Moon Knight!. Marvel should just let Moon Knight die. He's had three attempts at series in the last four/five years and each one has massively flopped.

And Blade hasn't had one chance since 2006

Glad Bendis is gone I hate what he did to Echo and Moon Knight.

@GiantsizeManThing said:

Moon knight is a great character, he was successful once and he can be again. Bendis wasn't the right writer for moon knight, his blatant disregard for continuity, his terrible dialogue, and the $3.99 price tag didn't help sales AT ALL! Everyone remember captain america in the early 2000s? after his god awful heroes reborn was canceled, they tried marvel knights for captain america and it lasted just as long as Houston/Benson's run on moon knight give or take the annuals, after this book was canceled they gave him to Christopher Priest and it tanked hard. No one thought cap could hold his own ongoing, then, Ed Brubaker came along and knocked it out of the park. moon knight is in a similar situation. Warren Ellis wrote a fantastic moon knight in his six secret avengers one-in-done's. Give it to him and, maybe, Darick Robertson after he is done with the boys. NO character is incapable of success, if you think otherwise you're a goddamn fool.

If anyone wants to respond to this you're gonna have to respond to me. Comic vine locked me out of my profile AGAIN!!!!!!

fu*ckers

@foolkiller1 said:

@GiantsizeManThing said:

Moon knight is a great character, he was successful once and he can be again. Bendis wasn't the right writer for moon knight, his blatant disregard for continuity, his terrible dialogue, and the $3.99 price tag didn't help sales AT ALL! Everyone remember captain america in the early 2000s? after his god awful heroes reborn was canceled, they tried marvel knights for captain america and it lasted just as long as Houston/Benson's run on moon knight give or take the annuals, after this book was canceled they gave him to Christopher Priest and it tanked hard. No one thought cap could hold his own ongoing, then, Ed Brubaker came along and knocked it out of the park. moon knight is in a similar situation. Warren Ellis wrote a fantastic moon knight in his six secret avengers one-in-done's. Give it to him and, maybe, Darick Robertson after he is done with the boys. NO character is incapable of success, if you think otherwise you're a goddamn fool.

If anyone wants to respond to this you're gonna have to respond to me. Comic vine locked me out of my profile AGAIN!!!!!!

Why? What have you been up to? :)

@Danial79: Well it's not like I said fuck or anything :)

Oh damn.

@ClutchWarfare: Your comments seem to overlook the one simple fact: Moon Knight fans didn't enjoy the series.

@ClutchWarfare said:

You're a fool. You personally, and all the other whiners, are the ones who killed this run. Marvel puts their most successful and highest earning writer on a Moon Knight book that really wasn’t THAT bad and it can’t sell because idiots like you post nothing but the negative. “MK will never die, we won’t let him!” YOU JUST DID my friend, thanks. “No more Bendis, no more Maleev crappy art” Well No more Moon Knight, for a long long time, because if an Eisner Award winning duo can’t sell, who will? You just bit your nose to spite your face BIG TIME.

No comic book, in the history of comic books has ever sold poorly because of a comic book fans opinion. A good story is a good story. Good art is good art. If a book doesn't sell, then it's probably down to it not being very good (thought there are of course a MILLION exceptions to this, Moon Knight NOT being one of them, unfortunately). Bendis WAS a highly successful writer. Now he lives off the past, unfortunately. Moon Knight was just not great and it messed with a lot of established Moon Knight fans by being so different from the established character. Maleevs' art is an acquired taste and even those who were fans of his art were a bit taken aback by his work on this because it was a different approach for him. I think blaming people and their right to an opinion is, frankly, bizarre, unless you ARE Bendis! Your attitude is not taking into consideration the fact that YOU wish people to respect YOUR opinion, otherwise you wouldn't have posted your own opinion on the matter. Let the door swing both ways and let others have their opinions too.

I've loved this series, though I can understand why long-term MK fans may not have been so keen if continuity has been thrown out the window. Personally loved Maleev's art and Buck Lime is an awesome character. Sure, it sucked to see Echo killed (loved her in New Avengers), but it gave the story an emotional weight. I liked the whole multiple Avengers persontalities thing too. Plus it was about time Marvel started a series that wasn't set in NYC.

It was never going to last, despite Maleev's great art, Bendis had no love for the character and seemed intent on destroying MK with one of the worst gimmicks ever.  
 
Good riddance, and let's hope the next series fares better.

Maleev's art does seem to be a contentious issue. Personally, I didn't hate it, but I also didn't love it either. As I've stated before, I'd much rather darker art, such as Finch or Crain, for MK's "world".

Excusez moi? Maleev's art is great.

@Vance Astro said:

@daredevil21134 said:

Glad Bendis is gone I hate what he did to Echo and Moon Knight.

You would think that being someone who has previously written for Echo and was one of the best writers on the Daredevil series would take better care of the character.The way she died was terrible and she was so under-utilized between the time she appeared in that book and when she was an Avenger.

Word.

@Vance Astro said:

I love how people blame Bendis for the failure of the book.Although it wasn't written well, let's face it, the masses don't give a sh#t about Moon Knight.Bendis has been writing Avengers poorly for 4-5 years and the book still sells at the top.

LOL,but he was the one guy who was supposed to finally get him over

@Vance Astro said:

I love how people blame Bendis for the failure of the book.Although it wasn't written well, let's face it, the masses don't give a sh#t about Moon Knight.Bendis has been writing Avengers poorly for 4-5 years and the book still sells at the top.

I'm guessing its because MK fans weren't supporting the book. If the masses don't "give a sh!t about Moon Knight" then it seems to me its up to the Hardcore fans to read the books, and if those aren't getting the book then that means that the book has no one true fanbase.

@ClutchWarfare said:

[...] it can’t sell because idiots like you post nothing but the negative.

Are you suggesting we should buy the book even if we aren't liking it? People always say, "vote with your wallet," and that's obviously what has happened. Just because Bendis has won an Eisner Award, that does not make him infallible, and this series fell flat the second Moon Knight started cosplaying as Avengers. It was just a poor idea, plain and simple, and that is why it didn't sell. If people--or as you call them, "idiots"--post negativity, there's obviously a reason for it. I wouldn't worry though, Moon Knight will be back. He's been around for 30 years now, and I know for a fact that there are fans of his within the Marvel ranks (including Dan Slott), so it's only a matter of time :)

I think there's something wrong with your eyes...Maleev's art is absolutely amazing.

Excusez moi? Maleev's art is great.

@ReVamp said:

I'm guessing its because MK fans weren't supporting the book. If the masses don't "give a sh!t about Moon Knight" then it seems to me its up to the Hardcore fans to read the books, and if those aren't getting the book then that means that the book has no one true fanbase.

The point i'm making is that if they are fans of Moon Knight that means they were all reading the book at some point.There was a writer they liked on the book more than Bendis, YET it still got cancelled.When is it time to come to the realization that it's not the writers...it's the character?

@Vance Astro said:

@ReVamp said:

I'm guessing its because MK fans weren't supporting the book. If the masses don't "give a sh!t about Moon Knight" then it seems to me its up to the Hardcore fans to read the books, and if those aren't getting the book then that means that the book has no one true fanbase.

The point i'm making is that if they are fans of Moon Knight that means they were all reading the book at some point.There was a writer they liked on the book more than Bendis, YET it still got cancelled.When is it time to come to the realization that it's not the writers...it's the character?

True, but that's not what I was debating. You were questioning why people were blaming Bendis for the cancellation of this series, and in essence they're doing it because Bendis screwed up the character in a major way (in the eyes of the fans) and fan support was lost far too easily. What happened in the previous series really doesn't change that. Would it mean that if Bendis weren't on the book that the series wouldn't be cancelled? No. It just means that Bendis had an impact on the book's cancellation.

@Vance Astro said:

@ReVamp said:

True, but that's not what I was debating. You were questioning why people were blaming Bendis for the cancellation of this series, and in essence they're doing it because Bendis screwed up the character in a major way (in the eyes of the fans) and fan support was lost far too easily. What happened in the previous series really doesn't change that. Would it mean that if Bendis weren't on the book that the series wouldn't be cancelled? No. It just means that Bendis had an impact on the book's cancellation.

I wasn't questioning it, I was flat out saying it was wrong.The characters lack of popularity is more the reason it was cancelled than anything.

Is it? I'm not totally sure it is, Marvel doesn't seem to take risks, but Marvel's been giving MK a series in such a manner that he doesn't go for a year without one since 2006. The most he's gone without is for 6 months. I think that Marvel simply doesn't know where to take him creatively. They were going to take him into a new direction in Vengeance Of but that title's writing flopped like mad for the end of the run. Then they cancelled that and gave it to Bendis, who completely reinvented the character and arguably gave him bad writing again. I do see your point and I somewhat agree with it, but the fact is that Marvel's giving him chance after chance and that's got to be for some reason.