Marvel breaking Jed MacKay's Moon Knight run into 4 fucking volumes is so fucking retarded. >Moon Knight>Vengeance of the Moon Knight>Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu>Marc Spector: Moon Knight. It just seems so desperate for sales. God forbid a title have >30 issues before needing a new #1 by the same fucking writer, like a month after the 'last' issue of the run!!! I love Jed MacKay's with Moon Knight. Moon Knight is the only Marvel shit and I'm only giving them money. And it just seems kinda insulting to both me as a fan as I'd imagine as the writer that they keep relaunching the volumes. I think comics with long, continuous numbered runs is a rough, easy barometer for quality, and just an achievement as a writer, and it's cool remembering you starting with a #6 and realizing how long you've spent with these characters by the time you get to like #40 or #50. Plus it makes it tedious to talk about it, especially to normie friends. 'Yeah just read Moon Knight, then Vengeance then Fist of Khonshu, then Marc Spector, but it's all the same story!" It doesn't even make any sense from a story POV. A new volume should be a good starting point for new readers. Who the fuck is starting with Vengeance of the Moon Knight and will know what the fuck is going on? Who would walk away with that liking Marc as a character or moonie as a hero? Even Fist of Khonshu is kinda name and face dumps all the characters, so for a new reader it'd be overwhelming v.s the actual start of Jed's run. I'm not that big of a comic fan, I just like Moon Knight enough that I'm willing to buy his physical books, and Marvel makes it so much less exciting than it should be. Like oh cool, I'm getting Marc Spector: Moon Knight #3 instead of Moon Knight #57.
>>153558981yes BUT if not for the relaunches, it probably would have been canceled, dead and buried, after volume 1 back in 2023. Look at what just happened to McKay's Nova series. it is dumb BUT when its all collected in trade as "Moon Knight by Jed McKay: The Complete Collection" the numbers and titles on the floppies won't have mattered. >Marvel makes it so much less exciting than it should be. Like oh cool, I'm getting Marc Spector: Moon Knight #3 instead of Moon Knight #57.Ultimately, this just seems like a pedantic grievance. >God forbid a title have >30 issuesMarvel apparently has a lower threshold for cancellation, which is why DC can keep books going into the 100s AND switch writers (and main characters) without renumbering. i don't even know who remains as a diehard marvel zombie. i guess its the spider man fags who like "gotta have my batman" think "gotta have my spidey" and don't buy any other comics starring B listers like Marc, so Moon Knight perpetually struggles to avoid cancellation
>>153558981Well at least his new suit looks cool
>>153558981>Marvel is so fucking retarded.Yeah we know
>>153559271I haven't fucking seen it, because I'm a fucking retard and I forgot to add Marc Spector: Moon Knight to my pull list so now I'm 3 issues behind and I'm waiting on the fucking #1 in the mail because I had to buy it off ebay
>>153559243>Ultimately, this just seems like a pedantic grievanceMaybe, but for me it's more of a reflection of the time commitment I've put into reading and following the character. I started this run with #6, I remember hitting #30 and thinking 'holy shit I've been reading this guy for 2 years'. It's cool in my opinion. It loses that when I'm picking up a #6 again.
>>153559493i get that, its fun to stick with a comic and feel its momentum and long term storytelling pay off
>>153558981Buckley and the other suits do it because #1s, they think, sell and feel that big numbers are intimidating. Marvel now is basically in the same position they were in during the bubble where it's obvious suits, sales and marketing are making a lot of decisions that creative is forced to implement except the industry is way smaller and less healthy which is going to lead to a lot of problems as the economy continues to go into the shitter. Lobdell during the bubble era was reportedly pulling in tens of thousands of dollars a month in royalties because X-Men books were selling so much. You can put up with the stupid shit if you're making so much money that even if it's only for a few years you've effectively made enough to retire on. Not so much when the top books are going to sell a fraction of what fucking Darkhawk was selling.
>>153558981It's beyond retarded but it probably saves the ego of some writers considering his Moon Knight is one of the few books that has lasted over fifty issues
>>153558981Moon Knight gets reinvented every 5 years, totally non existent characterI'm not certain he wouldn't be canceled if they didn't break his shit up into minis
>>153558981Kinda crazy how people like this shit.
>>153559243>Ultimately, this just seems like a pedantic grievanceNot if you’re a new reader trying to follow this shit. Could you imagine if little Johnny sonuvabitch played Marvel Rivals and thought Venom was cool so he goes to buy the new venom comics and has to figure out why his All-New Venom series jumped from issue 10 to suddenly issue 250?
>>153559990Explain what you mean I'm retarded
>>153562053The irony is that they do it in part because they think it makes easy jumping on points because they feel people are intimidated by large numbers and it makes things confusing when all they've done with the constant relauches of their books is make it way more confusing than it originally was.
>>153562053are kids even going to the shop to buy floppies. in my anecdotal experience, every new reader coming from video games goes right for trades - which eliminates all this confusioni watched my shop sell abso batman to a kid who only knew the arkham games, then sold him Snyder's New 52 Batman bc he liked AB
>>153562493That’d be even worse, isn’t the volume after Ewing’s Venom trades where MJ becomes Venom just called All New Venom? Then the trades after that I think start a new numbering with their volumes, I don’t think it’s “venom by Al Ewing vol 10” or whatever
>>153562064Most writers can't get an ongoing well ongoing, often ending early and being retroactively billed as a mini with only a handful of evergreen titles (Spiderman, X-men and Avengers) that can shamble along. McKay's Moon Knight is an anomaly. It has been going for years at this point and it probably galls some writers that a remarkably unremarkable but pretty goddamn solid book continues on without making waves but also being nearly unsinkable. Think about it, it's not high concept, it's not doing anything particularly new or novel, it's just good, enjoyable and fun and I bet that pissess some writers off
>>153558981It's a great run but the renumbering is dumb
>>153558981To be honest, only the transition from Fist of Khonshu to Marc Spector irks me. The original MacKay's run had a decent ending point and Vengeance worked as a miniserie setting up the character's return.
