Moon Knight #20came out this week.   This issue marks the end of my direct involvement in the title.  Beginning with issue #14, I’ve been co-plotting with the current MK writer, Mike Benson.  Mike was generous enough to invite me to stay and work with him when I realized that I no longer had the time to write the book myself, but still had a desire to help tell MK stories.  Several months back it became apparent that I no longer had the time to continue tag-teaming with Mike and that I would have to bail out entirely.

A coda to Mike’s “God and Country” story arc, MK #20 is mostly a stand-alone flashback to a never-before-told ecounter with the Werewolf by Night during Moon Knight’s glory years.  It’s a Giant Size! issue, with the main story backed up by reprints of “Werewolf by Night” #32-33, the very first appearance of the original, and never improved upon, Doug Moench and Don PerlinMoon Knight.  This is a great issue for anyone unfamiliar with the character to jump in and get aquainted. 

Starting next month Mike will launch his “The Death of Marc Spector” arc, pitting Moon Knight against the Thunder Bolts.  This arc will wrap a larger story arc that I proposed to my Marvel editor, Axel Alonzo, over a beer a few years back.  He’d just told me about a Marvel event that was being brewed and asked how it might impact MK.  The event was “Civil War” and I pitched two possible outcomes for Spector.  A typical editor, Axel said he’d like to use both.  So I set about charting a course that would take Moon Knight through both sets of changes. 

The first impact point occured in Issue #13 when Marc Spector embraced Hero Registration.  The fallout of that embrace developed from issues #14-19.  The next arc will have Spector facing the full consequences of his actions, and bring him to the second end point I proposed to Axel.  But my influence is entirely vestigial.  This will be Mike’s story, told in his voice and style.  You can read Mike’s thoughts and plans for Moon Knight in an interview he did with Comicbookresources HERE.