[I'm so off my blogging game that instead of simply commenting on the Moon Knight #10 preview PCS just put up, I'm turning it into a blog post!]
Talk about be careful what you ask for! I couldn’t wait for David Finch to jump ship and abandon Moon Knight, and while his replacement Mico Suayan is a solid illustrator, he’s a terrible storyteller. His panel layouts in #9 gave me a headache, like the worst of the MTV quick-cut style brought to paper, and it doesn’t look like he’s gotten any better in #10.
Look at those pages in the preview, especially the two I’ve included here. WTF? My eye doesn’t know which way to go or what to focus on, and while the text should theoretically help in that regard, the pages should still make some visual sense without them. It’s like poetry in a language you don’t speak; good poetry has a rhythm that’s apparent, even if you don’t understand the words; even if it’s free verse. Kind of like rap, too.
Suayan’s art here is like a 19-syllable haiku, or a limerick that doesn’t rhyme.
Very disappointing. Especially since the combination of Moon Knight and Charlie Huston is as close to a chip shot as comics can get for me.
Marvel, please, please, please pay Bill Sienkiewicz whatever it takes to do at least one arc on Moon Knight before sales start to dip and you can’t afford him. The covers, even.
Speaking of chip shots, is it me or is Marvel starting to court the internet “media” a lot more aggressively these days? Quoting a PaperbackReader.Com review (see the preview copy) seems like something they’d never have done a couple of years ago, and feels a bit like desperation, the way horror movies always have a quote or two from random reviewers you’ve never heard of beyond their glowing blurbs for, well, pretty much everything that’s clearly not as good as they say it is.
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