{"id":440111,"date":"2022-04-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-moon-knight-comic-you-should-read-after-episode-4\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T15:00:00","slug":"the-moon-knight-comic-you-should-read-after-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-moon-knight-comic-you-should-read-after-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"#The &#8216;Moon Knight&#8217; Comic You Should Read After Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e9bc13935\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23e9bc13935\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-moon-knight-comic-you-should-read-after-episode-4\/#%E2%80%9CThe_%E2%80%98Moon_Knight_Comic_You_Should_Read_After_Episode_4%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The &#8216;Moon Knight&#8217; Comic You Should Read After Episode 4&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_%E2%80%98Moon_Knight_Comic_You_Should_Read_After_Episode_4%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The &#8216;Moon Knight&#8217; Comic You Should Read After Episode 4&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;We examine the Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood comic that clearly inspired \u201cThe Tomb.\u201d&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Moon-Knight-Episode-4-Jeff-Lemire-Greg-Smallwood.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Moon Knight Episode Jeff Lemire Greg Smallwood\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Moon-Knight-Episode-4-Jeff-Lemire-Greg-Smallwood.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Moon-Knight-Episode-4-Jeff-Lemire-Greg-Smallwood-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Marvel Comics&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Brad Gullickson\u00a0\u00b7 Published on April 27th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;Marvel Explained is our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> where we delve into the latest Marvel shows, movies, trailers, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> stories to divine the franchise\u2019s future. This entry explores Moon Knight Episode \u00a04 (\u201cThe Tomb\u201d) and how it relates to the Moon Knight comic book storyline by Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood. Yes, prepare for SPOILERS.&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>After an episode like \u201cThe Tomb,\u201d an uncontrollable instinct takes over. <em><strong>Moon Knight<\/strong><\/em>\u2018s fourth chapter is a grenade thrown at the viewer. It explodes, and whatever you thought was there before is eradicated. You\u2019re compelled to pick up the pieces and assemble the puzzle. Once again, you reach toward the comics in hopes of forcing it all to make sense.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been paying attention to the discourse, you\u2019ve already run across the fevered mentions of <strong>Jeff Lemire<\/strong> and <strong>Greg Smallwood<\/strong>\u2018s iconic <em>Moon Knight<\/em> comic book series from 2016. It\u2019s an exceptional read, compellingly told with a tremendous visual flourish. It\u2019s one of those comics that, once consumed, you want to jam into others\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind its narrative connections to the Disney+ series, the comic structurally behaves similarly. You do not need to have read a single <em>Moon Knight<\/em> comic before pulling back its cover. The first few pages, maybe the first few issues, do not reveal their purpose immediately. You wade into the comic. You adjust to its telling. And it reveals itself leisurely, only after numerous fake-outs.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine starting the television series with Episode 4. Marc Spector awakens from a nightmare land where he is a masked crimefighter, battling those that would harm his god, Khonshu. In the waking world, he\u2019s wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed in hospital attire, bullied by nurses itching to strap him down for electric shock therapy. As <strong>Ethan Hawke<\/strong>\u2018s Dr. Arthur Harrow tells <strong>Oscar Isaac<\/strong>\u2018s the Body, \u00a0he\u2019s lost reality, preferring fiction over fact.<\/p>\n<p>His dissociative identity disorder creates an agonizing internal conflict. Wickedly, each persona navigates a different genre terrain. Steven Grant is a billionaire playboy movie producer, struggling to accomplish a Moon Knight movie for Marvel Studios while fending off an egomaniacal lead actor and an incompetent director. Jake Lockley is a noir-stained cabbie, chasing a psychotic through the streets and alleys. Moon Knight One is a space ranger protecting the moon from a lycanthrope armada. Think <em>The Last Starfighter<\/em> meets <em>The Howling<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As the personalities rotate control, different artists illustrate the narrative. <strong>James Stokoe<\/strong> handles the sci-fi werewolf war with a chaotic, deliciously overwrought style. <strong>Francesco Francavilla<\/strong> provides Jake Lockley\u2019s smokey neon nightlife, and <strong>Wilfredo Torres<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Garland<\/strong> drag Steven Grant through Hollywoodland hell. The reader soon finds favorites, preferring certain realms over others.<\/p>\n<p>But we never gain too much traction away from Smallwood\u2019s prime reality, the hospital, where the Body uncovers yet another possibility. Marc Spector\u2019s doctors and nurses are immortal agents in conflict with Khonshu. The Egyptian gods came to Earth from their realm, the\u00a0Celestial Heliopolis,\u00a0also known as the Othervoid.\u00a0The crocodile-headed Ammit, in the guise of Dr. Emmet, hopes to fracture the Body\u2019s personalities even further, wishing to sever Marc Spector\u2019s ties with Khonshu.<\/p>\n<p>However, as the alters become increasingly aware of each other, they meld into a singular purpose. Jeff Lemire presents the process as a necessary healing act. The Body will never be free from any one of them, but they can be managed. This communion becomes a threat to Khonsu as well. The moon god used their warring status quo to control the Body, and the comic book series climaxes with the Body rejecting Khonshu\u2019s mission. Marc, Steven, and the rest can protect those who <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> under the moon without their puppet master. They can be their own mission.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Studios and Marvel Comics never align perfectly. The film division picks and chooses from the books, taking a little from column A, and a little from column B. <em>Moon Knight<\/em> is not an anomaly. While the Disney+ series shares quite a bit with the Lemire\/Smallwood comic, it is by no means a carbon copy, and to think we\u2019re building toward a similar narrative end is foolish.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Othervoid appear? Maybe, maybe not. Will Khonsu reveal himself as a threat equal to Harrow? No guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>What the TV series borrows most from the comic book is Lemire\u2019s notion that the Body is damaged, not broken.\u00a0It\u2019s not a matter of erasing Steven or Jake from Marc\u2019s Body. It\u2019s not even a question of Marc\u2019s body. That\u2019s why the series opened with Steven\u2019s perspective, the personality that was not the initial personality. The alters are forever roommates. They need a chore board.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact that Marc and Steven embrace in <em>Moon Knight<\/em> Episode 4 and then run around the hospital together suggests that they\u2019re not in a familiar reality. The Body is most likely still stuck in the Tomb, bleeding out from a bullet wound caused by Harrow. We\u2019re hopefully witnessing Marc and Steven\u2019s partnership solidifying inside the Body.<\/p>\n<p>With two episodes left, Marc and Steven need to rescue their third persona from its sarcophagus. We need to meet the killer who held that bloody knife in \u201cThe Friendly Type.\u201d\u00a0And the chipper hippo Taweret, who chimes a \u201cHi,\u201d sending the two screaming backward, could either be yet another alter or an Othervoid interloper acting in response to or against Khonsu.<\/p>\n<p>In the Lemire\/Smallwood comic, we\u2019re eventually granted access to the inciting incident that brought the Body into contact with the Egyptian moon god. We\u2019re also privy to Steven\u2019s earliest appearance as an imaginary friend for Marc. So far,\u00a0<em>Moon Knight <\/em>has kept its audience at a distance regarding the Body\u2019s origins. Episode 5 feels like a strong place for a rewind juncture where we better understand the pain that created this particular costumed crusader.<\/p>\n<p>There can be no confusion about the Body\u2019s motivations. Every Avenger holds a secret pain. That\u2019s the Marvel appeal. They hurt as we hurt.\u00a0If Moon Knight is to one day stand next to the Hulk or Thor, we must understand his origins and his greatest fears. We need to know what set him on this path and how he\u2019s struggling to stay on it every day.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>Moon Knight<\/em> Episode 4 is <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/series\/moon-knight\/4S3oOF1knocS\">now streaming<\/a> on Disney+.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Marvel Explained, Marvel Studios, Moon Knight\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/brad.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Brad Gullickson is a Weekly Columnist for Film School Rejects and Senior Curator for One Perfect Shot. 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