maxl93•16d ago

I finally gave the new Moon Knight run a real shot after hating the first issue

My buddy in Austin kept telling me to push past issue 3, and now I'm hooked on the weird art style I used to hate. Has anyone else had a book grow on them like that?

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the_mia16d ago

Okay but wait, the first issue of the new run is issue 3. I mean, the first two were just a mini-series that led into it. So you hated the actual first issue, which is fair. I bounced off that weird, flat art at first too, but the way it shows his messed-up headspace totally clicked for me by issue 5. It makes the fights feel so disorienting in a good way.

brian_taylor1515d ago

The numbering thing always feels like a marketing trick to me. Calling it issue 3 just because there was a mini-series doesn't change that it's the first book of a new creative team. I gave it until issue 6 and the art still just looks unfinished, not deep. Does it ever get less muddy?

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garcia.jake15d agoMost Upvoted

But what if the muddy look is the whole point? I see what @the_mia is saying about the headspace. That fight in the rain in issue 5, where all the colors just bleed together into browns and grays, it makes you feel as lost and beat down as the character. It's not about clean lines, it's about mood. Calling it unfinished misses how that style builds a specific, heavy feeling. The numbering is messy, but the art choice feels totally on purpose to me.

samrodriguez15d ago

You know, I wonder if the art feels muddy because they're saving the budget for later. That first arc is all street level stuff, but what if they go full supernatural later and the colors just explode? It would make the start feel even more closed in and small.