Moon Knight Vol. 2: Dead Will Rise

Not *quite* as good as the first volume, possibly due to the leaving of Warren Ellis from the title, and the art is slightly different, but the stories are still fantastic and as unique as the last volume, and the characterisation is still top notch

A really good read, perfect follow up to volume 1

Fantastic. Beautiful artwork and the story continues to excite. Buy this comic if you prefer you heroes dark.

Issues #7-12 of the latest series (2014) of Moon Knight from Marvel Comics are collected as Moon Knight - Dead Will Rise, though Amazon UK have the title listed as  Moon Knight Volume 2: Blackout (Moon Knight: Marvel Now!) . Although there is a new creative team for this volume, they manage to continue the `feel' of the previous one, and also continue the sub-plots as well. There is an overall story to this volume, involving an assassination attempt on a new African Dictator who is in town to visit the United Nations. Moon Knight is caught up in the first attempt, then when he is subsequently called in to help resolve a hostage situation, discovers that he is being set up by someone who wants the authorities chasing him to keep him away from the next assassination. The situation is then compounded by the person behind the assassination attempt managing to talk Khonshu into taking their side in the matter, leaving Marc Spector to deal with the situation unaided...I have found that the work of the new writer - Brian Wood - to be of variable enjoyment; sometimes he is very good, other times, I find him almost unreadable; though that is my purely subjective view. Here however, he manages, for me, to keep the feel of the previous volume going through this one, and also keep the supporting characters in play, in effect making this volume the concluding half of a story that was running through the first volume, whether Warren Ellis intended it to be or not.So, if you liked volume one, then this is a worthy and quite surprising, volume two. If you haven't read volume one, then you might have trouble following this one; though I have to admit that I had trouble following this one in places even having read volume one. However, this was still impressive enough to get four stars from me.THE SPOILER ZONETHE SPOILER ZONETHE SPOILER ZONEIssue #7 - “Blackout” - sees Moon Knight duelling with a high-tech assassin who is trying to kill an African Dictator in town to visit the United Nations. Mr Knight is surprised to discover that he recognises the voice of the assassin’s employer…Issue #8 - “Live” - finds Detective Flint calling in Moon Knight to handle a hostage crisis in which the assailant appears to have a very suspicious-looking bomb that has the attention of the highest agencies in the land. Moon Knight’s activities are picked up on all sorts of video feeds inside the building, and he becomes an internet sensation, bringing the unwanted attention of the highest agencies in the land…“I was set up. I was betrayed”Issue #9 - “Doctor” - sees Marc Spector visiting his therapist Doctor Warsame, and going into a hypnotic trance to relive her childhood memories of the destruction of her village and murder of her family by a then young General Lor. As they argue over of the morality of assassinating the general, Khonshu makes the decision for them…Issue #10 - “HQ” - sees Khonshu recruiting anew assassin to attack General Lor at the United Nations. When Marc Spector intervenes in the attempt, he is captured by one of the highest security agencies in the land…Issue #11 - “Rendered” - finds Marc Spector in a secret prison somewhere being interrogated by some secretive people. He eventually escapes, of course, but it turns out to be a frying pan/fire situation…Issue #12 - “Diaspora” - opens with Marc Spector in freefall having escaped from the secret prison he was incarcerated in last issue. On the way down he manages to convince Khonshu that there may be something to his suspicions about Doctor Warsame… who apparently was employing those security guards at the UN who ‘rescued’ General Lor from the assassination attempt in issue #10. As Spector makes his way back to New York, he recruits a blogger to do some digging, and between them, they connect all the dots, and the General and the Doctor turn out to have rather different back-stories to the ones that Spector has been told. And so Mr Knight returns to the fray…