Moon Knight: Dead Will Rise Review

Finished reading Moon Knight: Dead Will Rise, continuing the Marvel Now series as writer Brian Wood puts Moon Knight up against his own psychiatrist as something from her past has come to come to America. The book opens up with an assassin with a lot of advanced technology about to kill only for Moon Knight to stop him and find out that his psychiatrist organised the hit. The next story has Moon Knight infiltrating the One World Trade Centre to stop a hostage situation as the whole world is watching from the large amount of news coverage. The rest of the book deals with Moon Knight's own psychiatrist Elisa Warsame taking his link to the god Khonshu in the hope of pursuing her own agenda while Marc Spector without any of his other personalities launches a one man crusade in stopping Elisa from killing the leader of her home country of Akima as General Lor was part of a group from a civil uprising that killed Elisa's family. Overall this was a great book as writer Brian Wood tells an incredibly intriguing story that feels like a psychological and political thriller as the story dives into the psychological aspect of Moon Knight and Elisa and what influences their motivations. While the political aspects of the book are very interesting as it helps to give a compelling reason for Elisa's motivation which helps to give the character some great development. The art by Greg Smallwood is amazing as he is able to draw out some great visuals and settings from the layout of the hostage story with it being told by the view of multiple cameras from news feeds to the buildings CCTV while the location of the prison that Marc finds himself in allows colourist Jordie Bellaire to differentiate between the white clothing and the white walls and objects inside the prison itself. 8.5/10.