51. Moon Knight vol 3 #1 to 6 ...

Moon Knight ... Marvel's twist on Batman from DC?

Well, whatever you may think, sad to say, this is one character that is unique enough in terms of origin (Hello Khonshu) but yet no matter what, the series has never been a sufficiently big hit to last long enough. There is a volume that was longer than this but you know what? It was famous for its last few issues prior to cancellation because it introduced the world to a new artist called Stephen Platt (love, love, love me some S.Platt)

After some one-shots and limited series, we are finally back to the right mix for this series to kick off with a bang and what a bang it is. We have DAVID FINCH (looooooooooooove me some Finch). He is awesome on the X-titles and on the New Avengers and now he is a superstar lifting this series from the doldrums. The only sad thing is that Finch didn't stay on long enough and neither did the writer so after more than a year it slowly died a natural death. After this, there has been 2 more incarnations but none survived a year or so even when it had Bendis as writer and Maleev as artist. Come on! Maleev is great but he is no Finch or Platt in the sense of style

Anyway back to this the first arc. What is great is that it shows us where Marc Spector is now i.e. a broken man both physically and mentally (and spiritually) ... living his days hidden in his house ... friends and girlfriend has left him because of his refusal to budge out of his downward spiral ... and in flashbacks, we get to see why

However, we are left wondering about his mental sanity and all those people and images are real or imaginary. For example: the psycho Bushman is definitely imaginary (at first) and what about the Moon God, Khonshu?

However, like it or not, there are some people who will not leave Marc alone and amongst some of the more interesting people they assembled to take Marc down includes a new chap who is like some sort of super profiler and even the trainer for villainous goons, Taskmaster

So Marc was jolted out of his depression and in no uncertain times forced to take up arms. There are some super nasty scenes but in this series, it makes sense. No punches were held back in this series and with that awesome FINCH artwork? It's a treat

Dude this is as good as it gets. Naturally not long after this, Finch went to work on Batman! Hehehe! But even then his work there cannot match this. This is like the perfect vehicle for Finch!

Ratings: 10/10