Moon Knight Vol. 2: Reincarnations (Moon Knight (2016-2017))

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Moon Knight Vol. 2: Reincarnations  collects issues #6-9 of the current series, along with issue #2 of the 1980 series, which addressed the current situation of Moon Knight in the vocabulary of the traditional comic-book of the day. Comic-book writing and comic book fans have come a long way in the intervening thirty-something years, and all for the better, writers actually got fired for writing stuff like this back then (though Jim Shooter fired people for all sorts of things).So – this story sees the various identities used by Marc Spector as his aliases having to be hunted down in their own realities and brought back into the single personality that has been fractured in the previous volumes; or so it appears to us. Wes till can’t tell what is ‘real’ and what isn’t, and so this is all purely subjective for the central character in the story.Whatever it is that is going on, this is definitely a really good comic, and this is a really good episode in the ongoing storyline. I could waffle on about the influences of 1970s comic-book writers or 1960s British TV, but I don’t feel like it.This is an excellent version of Moon Night, building on the previous short series, and on decades of history for the character.Don’t start here though, start with Warren Ellis’s opening volume,  Moon Knight Volume 1: From the Dead (Moon Knight (Numbered)) .