Moon Knight
The " Age of Khonshu " has fallen on Earth ’s Mightiest Heroes in the latestAvengersstory arc from Jason Aaron and Javier Garrón , as a godlikeMoon Knightraises the dead to reincarnate the humanity in the paradigm of ancient Egypt . With a legion of avian - skulled Sun Myung Moon priest and living mama , a newly - empowered Moon Knight is unleash to usher in an earned run average unified by the light of the Old Kingdom god , Khonshu . Under the crescent moon of an anachronistic Egypt , the Avengers discover themselves on the run from secret U. S. Army risen from the grave in streets of New Thebes City , whenAvengers34 hits stores this May .
The character Moon Knight is unusual in a reality of deadly superheroes in that his supernatural abilities come from neither radiotherapy or a rare mutant gene , but from death itself . When soldier of fortune Marc Spector exit in the vestige of a statue of the moonshine - god , Khonshu in Egypt , he was resurrected as an incarnation of the ancient divinity , sent back to protect those who travel by night and for his own redemption . Grappling with schizophrenic personalities vying for mastery of his mind , the cloaked avenger Moon Knight oppose the implike and the villainous under celestial illumination and on the moonstruck fringe . First appearing as a foe inWerewolf by Night , create by Marvel ’s Doug Moench + Don Perlin in 1975 , Moon Knight was later remodel as a hero in Bill Mantlo’sSpectacular Spider - Manin 1978 before earning a monthly form of address written by Doug Moench with fine art from Bill Sienkiewicz in 1980 . Marc Spector ’s bouts with insanity and contravene personalities receive the clinical treatment in Eisner award - winner Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’sMoon Knight , Vol . 6 from 2016 .
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While assort with a figure of superhero groups in the Marvel Universe including Avengers , Secret Avengers , andDefenders , Moon Knightis more disposed to labour alone in the dark of night or with street - level vigilantes , Marvel Knights withDaredevil , Black Widow , Dagger , Shang - Chiand Luke Cage . As a criminal offence - fighter , his umbrageous tendency is often at betting odds with itself and its amorally tendencies , cast not an unprincipled delinquent yet engaged in wrongful acts that other might find unconscionable . The latestAvengersstory arc from Jason Aaron and Javier Garrón finds Moon Knight infused with ancient power and raise to godhood in the baleful " Age of Khonshu . " Thanks toMarvel ’s prescribed collection for May 2020 , fan have their first detail and look at the back artistic production for the come tale :
In the upcomingAvengers#34 , armies of mummified warriors and bone - chill moonshine priests march in the " Age of Khonshu , " under the haunting spark of the ominous and godlike Moon Knight . As the humankind , from K’un - Lun toWakanda , is transubstantiate in a shadowy reflection of ancient Egypt , Moon Knight ’s erstwhile allies , the Avengers flee undead horrors and ghostlike cultists in the sandblasted streets of New Thebes City . Are the Avengers doomed to an other grave , protector of the Pharaoh of Egypt in a world of the dead ? Or will the moonstruck godMoon Knightfinally see the light ?
Avengers#34hits shelves May 13th , 2020 .
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