By Tim Stevens
In VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #2, out in stores on September 16 from writer Gregg Hurwitz and artist Jerome Opena, the titular vigilante has taken New York by storm. Unfortunately for MK, plenty of his super-powered peers experience no great thrill from seeing him in the Big Apple once more.
"The fashion in which [Moon Knight] swings back into town catches everyone's notice," notes Hurwitz. "All of a sudden, this dark street fighter's plowing through the middle of Times Squares. So all the super heroes are gonna take notice-some because they're worried he'll be 'good,' others because they're worried he ain't gonna be 'good' enough."
Standing at the forefront of those decidedly not delighted to see the familiar flash of white back in Manhattan, Norman Osborn wastes no time waiting to see how this situation will play out. Without a moment's hesitation, the H.A.M.M.E.R. Director dispatches his biggest gun, the Sentry, to bring the situation and perhaps Moon Knight as well to a quick end.
The seemingly vastly uneven matchup appealed to the writer because of how closely the two actually mirror each other once you look beyond their power set:
"[They are] two kinds of crazy facing off. Both have a dark side, a shadow that can loom up and overtake them. So when they get into it, they can actually relate since they're both tortured by alternate selves; they're both creatures of their own making."
Of course similarities aside, MK still looks wildly overmatched in the battle. What can a human hero do against a man with almost no physical weaknesses?
"Run," Hurwitz jokes. "Just kidding. The only way that MK can survive against someone as all-powerful as Sentry is to use his brain; all those personalities [mean] many brains to choose from! So let's just say they're gonna have a heated discussion with a lot on the line."
Taking on these kinds of challenges might seem like suicide, but the writer insists that Moon Knight has not committed to this New York homecoming to destroy himself or just to settle old debts with Osborn.
"[He] is also coming back to New York to prove something about himself," Hurwitz says of his hero. "Is he even and sane enough to carry out this task, this job? And most important, is he ready to play in the big leagues?"
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