From: ror1@ellis.uchicago.edu (BANZAI the MASTER)
Subject: Moon Knight/I'm SOOO pissed at MARVEL
Reply-To: ror1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 06:35:52 GMT




I have nothing wrong with Terry Kavanaugh as an editor, in fact I don't think
of editors much at all (perhaps I should from what I've been reading).  Terry
is currently WRITING Moon-Knight.  And boy does he suck at it...

NEVER start out your run on a book by bringing a character back to life
(IMHO) as Terry did in bringing back Randall Spector who died in a back
up story in Rampaging Hulk a loooong time ago.  The concept is ok, but also
involves a FOUR PART Punisher cross over.  Snarl.  Punisher's ok, but four
issues?  Why not just make him a permanent costar of the book.  He's been in
9 of 35 issues.  I THINK that's a bit much.

But anyway, after JM Demattis so nicely wrote an awesome exploration of moony's
past in Scarlet Redemption (#26-30) and established his motivation, soon it
is radically changed to a more vengeful "he should sell more books now" 
approach.  Marvel CONSTANTLY tries to make Moonie popular by revamping him. 
And they always fail pathetically.  I honestly believe that if they stuck with moonie he'd sell books, given enough time to catch on.  

Does anyone remember the Moon Knight:  Fist of Konshu series of several years
back?  This was moonies second run, not his classic first one.  There they
offered a moon knight with a bloody GOLD AHNK on his chest!!! What were they
thinking?  They made him the most one dimesional, no personal life character
for that book.  So well revamped, yes?  And then it was cancelled after book
 6.

AND NOW, a worse indignity has befallen him at the hands of Terry Kavaugh...
They're turnign him into another version of, get this, Iron FUCKING (sorry but this reallly ierritates me) Man.  What are they thinking????  And who's he
fighting in his first enarmored outing?  DOCTOR BLOODY DOOM!  Doctor Doom is 
not a Moon Knight enemy, just like a serial killer on the streets is NOT a 
FF enemy.  The later villian is WHO MK should be fighting!  To back up this
raging blather I've been sputing, I quote Previews from February...

"This issue presents the totally revamped Moon Knight- logo and all!  Specor
Mansion is blown to pieces, Frenchie is injured and confined to a wheelchair,
and Marlene decides that she needs her own space (for now).  Moon Knight
 emerges from these hard tiems a darker, grittier and tougher than ever, 
relocating to state of the art headquarters in Manhattan, and changing 
his arsenal and costume to match his new high tech base.  To aid him in his
war on crime, Moon Knight consults the Shadow Cabinet, a varied panel of 
experts from all walks of life... and Spector will need all the help he can
get when Doctor Doom arrives on the scene!"

AAHHHHH!!!  The big problem with the second MK series (the cancelled one) was
that they completely eradicated Marc's personal life.  Marlene gone, Frenchie
gone, all the back up characters gone.  Now, they're doing it again!  Don't
they ever learn?  MK's readership now consists of die hard MK fans who 
liked Chuck Dixon's work on the first 24 issues, which were basically MK as
he should be.  Marlene and Frenchie around, MK not fighting cosmic villians.  
And then JM came on, and even brought some of MK's old supporting characters
back (JEna, Crawley). But then JM saddly leaves, and Kavanaugh is taring down
all JM and Chuck built, so carefully.  On the cover of this new issue
you can tell MK is wearing armor, you can see the sheen off of his big metal
gauntlets and boots.  

And guess what's coming up?  An Infinity War crossover in MK where "MK's alien
doppleganger threats the lives of Alicia and Franklin Richards, as the fate of
the Multiverse hangs in the ballance."  

ARRRRGRGGGGG!!!!!

Are there any Diehard MK fans out there?  Please email me at the below address
below and we can talk about some serious assassination plots here.  Sorry
this post was so long, but the more I think about this the more I get REALLY
pissed.  

-BANZAI  
ror1@midway.uchicago.edu
"What do you mean I don't believe in God?  I talk to him everday."-MEGADETH
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