BB Review Group week 90 - Moon Knight #4 (Spoilers)

[Thudpucker]

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This week we are reading: Moon Knight #4 (Marvel) by Charlie Huston and David Finch, chosen by ToddKearns

Next week we will be reading: Martian Manhunter #1 (DC) by A.J. Lieberman and Al Barrionuevo, chosen by Taxman

Starting 8 / 16 we will start voting to see which book we review, all are welcome to nominate and vote. I'll start the thread for it next week.



Our reviewers this week are:

ToddKearns - 9
Brad Nelson - 8
Bearpod91 - 9
DrSettleton - 2
Pat(sadly)NotLoika - 8.5
Richard Lawson - 7
dj127 - 8
Jim T. - 8
Ray Goldfield - 8
JABSEN - 5
Inferiority - 9.25
Zulithe - 7.5
PeteL - 7
Kirbys corpse - 7
Billie - 7.5
STOLTMAN - 9
Your dorky Snob - 2
Elry - 7.5
dEnny - 5
Mister Mets - 8




Our Previous 16 weeks of reviews (scores lost during the Image Board crash)

Week 1 - 11/17/04 – Captain America #1
Week 2 - 11/24/04 – Flash #216
Week 3 - 12/01/04 – Darkness Vol. 2 #17 (av grade 3.7)
Week 4 - 12/08/04 – Demo #12
Week 5 - 12/15/04 - Plastic Man #13
Week 6 - 12/22/04 – Goon #10
Week 7 - 12/29/04 - Legion of Super Heroes #1
Week 8 - 01/05/05 – Flaming Carrot #1
Week 9 - 01/12/05 – Majestic #1
Week 10 - 01/19/05 – Human Target #18
Week 11 - 01/26/05 – Conan #12 (av grade 8.3)
Week 12 - 02/02/05 – Black Panther #1
Week 13 - 02/09/05 – Young Avengers #1
Week 14 - 02/16/05 – Ex Machina #8 (av grade 8.4)
Week 15 - 02/23/05 – X-Men #167
Week 16 - 03/02/05 – Ultimate Iron Man #1


Week 17 pick - Shining Knight #1 (Morrison & Bianchi) av grade - 7.8
Week 18 pick - Invincible #21 (Kirkman and Ottley) av grade - 6.3
Week 19 pick - Expatriate #1 (Moore and Latour) av grade - 5.4
Week 20 pick - Temporary #2 (Hurd & Smith) av grade - 7.4
Week 21 pick - GLA #1 (Slott and Pelletier) av grade - 6.8
Week 22 pick - Nightwing #107 (Grayson and Hester) av grade - 5.8
Week 23 pick - Iron Ghost #1 (Dixon and Cariello) av grade - 4.9
Week 24 pick - City Of Tomorrow (Howard Chaykin) av grade - 6.2
Week 25 pick - Villains United #1 (Simone and Eaglesham) av grade - 5.7
Week 26 pick - Desolation Jones #1 (Ellis and Williams III) av grade - 8.9
Week 27 pick - Guardian #2 (Morrison and Stewart) av grade - 6.1
Week 28 pick - Adv. Of Superman #640 (Rucka and Kerschl) av - 6.1
Week 29 pick - Son Of Vulcan #1 (Beatty and Grant) av grade - 3.7
Week 30 pick - JLA #115 (Johns, Heinberg, Batista) av grade - 6.9
Week 31 pick - Wildsiderz #0 (Campbell and Hartnell) av grade - 2.9
Week 32 pick - Astro City: The Dark Age #1 av grade - 7.3
Week 33 pick - Albion #1 (Moore and Oakley) av grade - 5.0
Week 34 pick - Gotham Central #33 (Rucka, Brubaker, Kano) av - 8.5
Week 35 pick - Mutopia X (Hine and Medina) av grade - 5.2
Week 36 pick - Athiest #2 (Hester and McCrea) av grade - 6.9
Week 37 pick - JLA: Classified #10 (Ellis and Guise) av grade - 6.9
Week 38 pick - Justice #1 (Ross, Krueger & Braithwaite) av grade 7.9
Week 39 pick - The Winter Men #1 (Lewis and Leon) av grade 5.3
Week 40 pick - Batman: Journey into Knight #1 (Helfer & Huat) av - 4.4
Week 41 pick - Jack Cross #1 (Ellis and Erskine) av grade 6.1
Week 42 pick - Runaways #7 (Vaughan & Miyazawa) av grade 7.8
Week 43 pick - Ghost Rider #1 (Ennis and Crain) av grade 6.4
Week 44 pick - Thor: Blood Oath #1 (Oeming and Kolins) av grade 7.1
Week 45 pick - Wolverine #32 (Millar and Andrews) av grade 8.2
Week 46 pick - Losers #28 (Diggle and Wilson) av grade 7.4
Week 47 pick - FF/I M : Big In Japan #1 (Wells & Fisher) av grade 5.6
Week 48 pick - F N Spider-Man #1 (David and Wieringo) av grade 7.3
Week 49 pick - Fin Fang Four #1 (Langridge & Grey) av grade 8.8
Week 50 pick - Book Of Lost Souls #1 (JMS & Doran) av grade 5.6
Week 51 pick - Hero At Large #2 (Hogan and Treece) av grade 6.3
Week 52 pick - DMZ #1 (Brain Wood) av grade 7.7
Week 53 pick - The Thing #1 (Slott and DiVito) av grade 7.5
Week 54 pick - Walking Dead #24 (Kirkman & Adlard) av grade 8.4
Week 55 pick - Generation M #1 (Jenkins and Bachs) av grade 7.3
Week 56 pick - Marvel Team-Up #15 (Kirkman & Medina) av grade 6.0
Week 57 pick - Amazing Joy Buzzards 2 #3 (Smith and Hipp) av grade 5.1
Week 58 pick - Testament #1 (Rushkoff and Sharp) av grade 7.4
Week 59 pick - New Avengers #14 (Bendis and Cho) av grade 7.6
Week 60 pick - Sable & Fortune #1 (Cahill and Burns) av grade 4.4
Week 61 pick - Ares #1 (Oeming and Foreman) av grade 8.2
Week 62 pick - SGT. ROCK: THE PROPHECY #1 (Joe Kubert) - av grade 7.7
Week 63 pick - Nextwave #1 (Ellis and Immonen) av grade 9.1
Week 64 pick - Betty and Veronica Digest #163 av grade 4.2
Week 65 pick - Fables #46 (Willingham and Fern) av grade 7.5
Week 66 pick - Daredevil #82 (Brubaker and Lark) av grade 9.6
Week 67 pick - Ast. X-Men #13 (Whedon & Cassaday) av grade 8.5
Week 68 pick - Ms. Marvel #1 (Reed and de la Torre) av grade 7.3
Week 69 pick - American Virgin #1 (Seagle & Cloonan) av grade 7.1
Week 70 pick - Annihilation Prologue (Giffen & Kolins) av grade 6.3
Week 71 pick - Hawkgirl #50 (Simonson and Chaykin) av grade 5.0
Week 72 pick - Savage Dragon # 124 (Erik Larson) av grade 7.2
Week 73 pick - Moon Knight #1 (Huston & Finch) av grade 7.4
Week 74 pick - Firestorm #24 (Moore and Igle) av grade 4.6
Week 75 pick - Squadron Supreme #2 (JMS & Frank) av grade 6.3
Week 76 pick - Incredible Hulk #94 (Pak and Pagulayan) av grade 8.9
Week 77 pick - Civil War #1 (Millar and McNiven) av grade 7.4
Week 78 pick - She-Hulk #7 (Slott and Round) av grade 6.6
Week 79 pick - 100 Bullets #72 (Azzarello and Risso) av grade 8.0
Week 80 pick - Secret Six #1 (Simone and Walker) av grade 6.8
Week 81 pick - My Inner Bimbo #1 (Sam Kieth) av grade 8.8
Week 82 pick - Wonder Woman #1 (Heinberg and Dodson's) av grade 7.2
Week 83 pick - Ms Marvel #4 (Reed and De La Torre) av grade 5.8
Week 84 pick - Eternals #1 (Gaiman and JR JR) av grade 7.5
Week 85 pick - DC: Brave New World (various) av grade 4.8
Week 86 pick - The Beyond #1 (McDuffie & Kolins) av grade 5.5
Week 87 pick - The Escapists #1 (BKV, Bond & Barreto) av grade 8.6
Week 88 pick - JLA #0 (Meltzer and various) av grade 6.3
Week 89 pick - Batman #655 (Morrison & Kubert) av grade 7.1





Our higest average grade so far was for Daredevil #82 with 9.6
Our lowest average grade so for is Wildsiderz #0 with 2.9


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[Thudpucker]

Todd decided to pick a mid-arc issue of a book that we already did before, and not that long ago... also it's one that I really didn't like, I gave it a 2 the first time around.... so yea, I'm skipping this week.

Also just so everyone knows I'll be at gone most of the week, going to WWC, so I'll be updating when I can but it might be awhile before I update the main post but please just keep going and I'll get it updated when I can.

[Masculine Todd]

I guess I could apologize for my pick, but it would be insincere as I am loving this title and, hey, this was my most anticipated title of the week and on my first choice, I shouldn't have to defend it.

Charlie Huston continues to frustrate me. He is a phenomenal writer, I've had the pleasure of exploring one of his novels. His work here is also great. A menacing, terrifying atmosphere is fostered throughout the issue, we get clever dialogue, a villain with an ingenious "power" in The Profiler, and the reader is genuienly able to empathize with a brutal killer in his plight.

Huston properly defines the complexities of Marc Spector's psyche, such as the fact that he kills because he is seaking unconditional love from a deity to replace that which he could never secure from his father, and that he was Moon Knight because killing was easy, and when he had to try and overcome pain and adversity, he quit. Watching him go from a shell and being built up to his former prominence is engaging.

The problem is that Huston still keeps the reader confused, with the story moving at a snails place and it is quite obvious his transition from prose to sequential storytelling is proving a tad difficult for him. Still, what the writer gives us overcomes this in my mind, and the way Huston throws little snipits of Spector's past (such as The Profiler telling an emotionally conflicted girl he slept with in a way to boast how wise he is) makes it feel natural.

David Finch's art is so detailed, it's almost distracting. He uses a very detailed, gritty style with every muscle defined, and he boasts a cinematic eye for layouts. The gruesome aspects of the script are brought to life in horrific, bloody detail. This is a career high for Finch, as his work here is the stuff of legend.

My Final Rating: 9/10

[Ray G.]

Good pick next week. I like that we're reviewing a lot more DC lately. Having skimmed the issue already, I can tell that opinion will be split.

I'll get to Moon Knight tonight.

[Taxman]

Good pick next week.

Thanks, the kinda eases up some of this horrible pressure.

[Ray G.]

Thanks, the kinda eases up some of this horrible pressure.

Don't worry, the bad weeks are at least memorable.

I think you should be okay, though. I enjoyed it, so you've got one positive review, at least.

[Masculine Todd]

Todd decided to pick a mid-arc issue of a book that we already did before, and not that long ago... also it's one that I really didn't like, I gave it a 2 the first time around.... so yea, I'm skipping this week.

'Cause that doesn't make me feel like a dick.

[PeteL]

I picked up issues 3&4 today. I will read them, and then post my thoughts. I'm kind of glad you picked this title, Todd. Because I liked 1 & 2, but didn't pick up 3.

[Brad N.]

Just finished reading it. I'll give it a solid 8/10.

Nothing really to nitpick on why I didn't give it more, but it wasn't superb in my opinion. It was definitely above average and I am REALLY enjoying this series a lot. Very dark and it's driving me nuts to not see Marc kicking ass yet but it looks like it's coming soon. I am not exactly what you would call a Moon Knight afficianado by any means. I did read all of the last mini put out in the late 90's. I read the occasional issue from the original ongoing too, but that's about it. Huston's storytelling is very nicely paced and makes me hope and pray he's on this book forever. Finch's art is phenominal too. I've always been a fan but this takes it to a new grittier level. I actually feel like I needed a shower after today's issue. Good stuff and I can't wait to se where it goes!

[Bearpod91]

I've been loving this book since issue one. Great showing of mental breakdowns and the whole book is really one crazy ride inside the guy's mind. I can't wait to see how this progresses because it's just been awesome so far.

9/10!