Review by Ian Keogh

Although his previous series ended with The Last Days of Moon Knight, Jed MacKay’s not finished with the agent of Khonshu and his world just yet. Over five volumes MacKay kept adding to Moon Knight’s supporting cast, almost on the sly, and they helped him run the Midnight Mission where those in need of aid could connect with super powered help.

Before the focus shifts entirely to them, there’s a matter that needs cleared up directly connected to earlier events, and it’s handled with poise and sensitivity while also establishing the cast for new readers of a new series.

Lacking poise and sensitivity is Marvel only binding four standard issues together and considering it a graphic novel. They become ever more mercenary.

On the plus side the exceptionally good Alessandro Cappuccio remains the artist, and he defines every member of the cast in therapy and in action. The action is brutal, as there’s a mystery around Moon Knight, and he’s taking no prisoners when tackling local thugs. The form would be not to look to why, because based on MacKay’s previous run, the revelations aren’t going to be immediate. Except this time there’s no prolonged tease and one hell of a cliffhanger ending if you remember the Marvel comics of the 1980s. If not, it’s going to be headscratcher at the very least, or a damp squib at worst.

Never mind, as there’s time to fix that in the next volume, and while four chapters is hardly value for money, they’re four good chapters, showing how the cast feel bound to each other and why, and yet how they’re very different. It’s a very promising start.