I'm glad y'all have been liking this new setup, but don't worry, more of my scripted content will be coming soon! My other video this week was just delayed by the sponsor. :(

@myrdigarius

3 жыл бұрын

So the entrance will be like: Today's delay is sponsored by...

@Aragorn7884

3 жыл бұрын

Please, please don't say RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS 🤑😬🙄

@rusteshackleferd8115

3 жыл бұрын

Comics are 🦇💩 crazy because comics do have to make sense.

@blacksun9042

3 жыл бұрын

The Phoenix didn't come out of nowhere, Moon knight was hiding it from Konshu

@swordsaber6738

3 жыл бұрын

Why does the thumbnail keep changing?

You know a plotline is bullshiting itself when the actual most beleiveable part is Moonknight defeating Thor

@mfekett

3 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@maihib821

3 жыл бұрын

Disclaimer: I know very little about Moon Knight and I haven't read this comic. But the way this story is described, it doesn't sound like it was written by a professional. It sounds more like someone's Moon Knight Fan Fiction, using the "Worf Effect" to show just how much of a "badass" he is.

@fellowspacemarine6657

3 жыл бұрын

@@maihib821 I understand from a third person perspective how this looks, but no. The writer is Jason Aaron who has been writing for Marvel comics since 2013 on books like Thor, Jane Foster's Thor, and ironically enough worked on the Avengers issues dating back to 2018 and his work is, for the most part, really well received. I just think when it came down to a more obscure character like Moonknight he didn't really understand what made the character special and unique, so he just decided to give him a crazy power boost. I hope this clarifies some things to let you form a more fleshed out opinion

@iiTzLurks

3 жыл бұрын

And he beat taskmaster and deadpool

@wallycastagnir

3 жыл бұрын

randombullshit go

It feels like Jason heard that Moon Knight was Batman and assumed that he could “because bat-man” anyone

@demonteprice5870

3 жыл бұрын

“what the how-" “BECAUSE I'M MOON KNIGHT"

@crimsonhunter7598

3 жыл бұрын

L0L

@pluckee

3 жыл бұрын

Moon Knight isn't anything like Batman at all people just assume that he is cause his costume looks similar lol

@jonahwillis2781

3 жыл бұрын

@@pluckee He also typically fights at street level, uses gadgets, is a rich white dude, and does some sleuthing. But that's about it when it comes to similarities.

@TheShark110

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonahwillis2781You mean The Shadow

The next Marvel/DC crossover is just gonna be the two teams babysitting the Starbrand baby and Baby Darkseid

@NeoAya

3 жыл бұрын

Why do comic companies have a god baby fetish?

@Wild48

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeoAya Probably cause it's sorta like "Hey you guys know these immensely powerful, nearly godlike beings? Well here's a cute lil' baby version of them for you to have a few laughs at"

@NeoAya

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wild48 actually it seems more like a corporate thing in general, baby versions of existing TV shows in the 90s, baby yoda and baby nut in the current year, I really don't like it lol

@Wild48

3 жыл бұрын

@@NeoAya Forcing DC to make New Gods Babies

@poochersmontgomery8825

3 жыл бұрын

I'm good with it.

Marvel is really trying to turn Moon Knight into Batman, making him defeat prominent players in Marvel. Which I think is silly since the character is more of a psychological character than a physical one.

@Lord0x

3 жыл бұрын

he more like daredevil

@Lord0x

3 жыл бұрын

street level

@tatefreeman4563

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lord0x well yes and no, he can handle world ending threats, he's smart and he's got good powers, only issue is they never really delved into the how or the why, like for instance if they explained that he fought iron fist in the dead of night so the moon was out or something like that.

@polverine7491

3 жыл бұрын

Blackwing is more close to Batman than Moon Knight imo

@MrAdonis258

3 жыл бұрын

More like superman. Just throw nonsense op power

Moon Knight's biggest curse really is writers having no clue what he does. They always seem to try a "What if Moon Knight rebelled against Khonshu, nobody's ever done that before!" not knowing he's done that in nearly every single run. At least Bendis didn't write it.

And actually konshu had dreams of the “devil” taking over and turns out not to be mephisto but now we know that it was Knull that he was preparing for, who is referred to as cosmic satan.

@sabinske8692

3 жыл бұрын

@Drake Barnes very good analysis sir!

@sabinske8692

3 жыл бұрын

@Drake Barnes no sarcasm was intended.... I was complimenting your statement, it’s interesting to see how different characters share a title and sometimes never refer to each other.

Moon Night is definitely in my top 10 Marvel characters so it upsets me when he gets misused.

@sabinske8692

3 жыл бұрын

@@DontTakeThisSeriously616 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 dude you have me rollliinnngggg

@Friendly_Neighborhood_Edgelord

3 жыл бұрын

Who's Moon Night? I know who Moon Knight is but I don't know Moon Night

@dragonetafireball

2 жыл бұрын

I’m back at this video a year later and I notice the typo. Didn’t notice it the first time cause I my dyslexic but I’ll keep it there since it amuses y’all.

@sunmi2539

Жыл бұрын

@@DontTakeThisSeriously616 lmao

@sunmi2539

Жыл бұрын

@@dragonetafireball lol

Are all drake's chairs in his house thrones?

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat

3 жыл бұрын

Laundry thrones!

@silverbanshee7519

3 жыл бұрын

He's just that cool.

@doc874

3 жыл бұрын

Probably

Moon knight: with this stolen power combine We get Captain Plan-er wait just a moon god

My headcanon is that this whole comic was just in his head

@ghost_kinggamer9561

2 жыл бұрын

Nah Konshu was always real...even Conan knows him stop reading that Lemire BS.

@Bethynaee

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghost_kinggamer9561 the lemire comic doesn't even try to say that khonshu isn't real lmao

@ghost_kinggamer9561

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bethynaee Yeah, yeah but it was one of the worst runs. Let's be honest here

@Bethynaee

2 жыл бұрын

@@ghost_kinggamer9561 it's my favourite comic of all time 💀, to each their own i suppose! :)

@RealCFZ

Жыл бұрын

Damn. You predicted the “ALL IN HIS MIND?” meme before New Rockstars did.

Honestly, I believe Aaron's run on avengers is showing his worst habits as a writer

@lillizilizard

3 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more and that sucks. I think I made the joke “your Bendis is showing” a few times with this run for it’s lack of continuity and straight up ignorance of other stories (Ghostrider being a prime example). Idk I think Aaron has lost a lot of passion and interest on the book. In reading this arc, I feel that he’s bored with mainstream comics as a whole after writing Thor for 8 years.

@CryptidZeker415

3 жыл бұрын

@@lillizilizard "I think I made the joke “your Bendis is showing” a few times with this run for it’s lack of continuity and straight up ignorance of other stories (Ghostrider being a prime example)." Dude that breaks me man. You have no idea how much robbie reyes means to me and when i heard the news that he was finally coming back i was so excited. Thinking "YESSSSSS HES BACK, and whats this????? the writer who wrote that amazing thor run is writing him???? COOL". But then this whole thing got turned into a nightmare by aaron who took the "All New" out of "Ghost Rider". I never hated a writer more passionately than i do with aaron for all that hes done with robbie.

@Kriskazam

3 жыл бұрын

@@lillizilizard when does his contract end lol

@lillizilizard

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kriskazam ngl dude I think he’s on that book for the long haul. From there, they’ll probably put Cates on the book cause marvel executives love him atm.

I think it would make more sense to have Moon Knight convince people to join rather than fight them, and to join forces briefly. In the final fight they realize that they need to combine their power and the only way to do that is to put it in Moon Knight, you can say his dissociative identity disorder can be used as a vehicle to use these powers to the fullest similar to David Haller/Legion.

Too be honest, Age of Khonshu read like a spoof of DCs Dark Knights: Death Metal. It was definitely editorially mandated and rushed to coincide with DKDM's release. Over the many decades of reading comics, I've realized that it's not just parallel thinking between comic pros. Many are friends and rivals and they share, steal and spoof each other. This feels that way to me. A friendly jab at the distinguished competition. And Marvel's parody/copies often work out best. Deadpool, Sentry (tho mire of a Marvelman/Miracleman pastiche than Superman), and Secret Wars (4?) come to mind as examples.

What could have been done was that every time he absorbed an ability, it split into a separate personality, and it all slowly corroded him. Then insert some plot device and have a reason for the Phoenix force coming and that giving him some sort of boost and he melds all his abilities into one personality (and oh God wait, that's basically legion) and that's how he finally defeats mephisto once and for all

"the team fought Dracula" oh drake you know as well as me that's called every other Tuesday in the comicbook Universe... Every Sunday for Blade

Spoiler alert: Mephisto wasn't the threat. *It was actually Knull*

@mfekett

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an editorial retcon to me

@moonknightslair8498

3 жыл бұрын

@@mfekett What retcon? Khonsu only *thought* it was Mephisto. The great evil on behalf the Knull was so wretched Khonsu could only compare it to Mephisto himself.

@Friendly_Neighborhood_Edgelord

3 жыл бұрын

Nice name and PFP

@moonknightslair8498

3 жыл бұрын

@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Edgelord LOL yeah, you too me2👍

Having Moon Knight beat Iron Fist right away is unsatisfying. But imagine a Moon Knight run where in every issue you see him training for something for a page or two, only to finally find out that all that times he’s been training to take down Iron Fist

Moon Knight is more a low supernatural character. He should be fighting zombies or ghosts, or even the mafia, criminal organizations.

@adams0123

Жыл бұрын

His arch nemesis is literally a mercenary with a death mask tattoo on his face, whom he's killed before.

This sounds like a worse version of the storyline from Bendis' Avengers where the Hood collects all of the infinity gems but it's actually really interesting how he goes about getting them and for the most part makes sense in universe how a normal human can get a hold of these protected powerful items.

This whole comics series you read comic drake seems like something out of poorly written fan fiction. Yet in spite of that bad writing it still somehow is made into a comic.

Yeah, this is a scenario where the writer just makes the Main character defeating everyone really easy, sometimes it happens with Batman:/

Moon Knight really said im built different

The best part of this arc was all the shitposts Moon Knight-Core was able to make because of it

You should do something like this for the Three Jokers storyline

@noampresnete8677

3 жыл бұрын

I would prefer if he made a positive one. There are so many great comics, why focus on the bad ones?

@francescominoguarino827

3 жыл бұрын

@@noampresnete8677 i never said the Three Jokers was a bad comic. I enjoyed it

@noampresnete8677

3 жыл бұрын

@@francescominoguarino827 i enjoyed it too, but i don't think it's a good comic, and i think drake mentioned somewhere that he didn't like it, but i may be wrong

@francescominoguarino827

3 жыл бұрын

@@noampresnete8677 While I do agree It had some parts I'm not fond of, and It definitly did not live up to the 5 years hype, and it's a story that It Will be, let's face It, pointless. But some parts are very good. In particolar, the Joe Chill Plan, and that Final Joker's speach Is One of the best analysis of the character in my opinion

@phabiorules

3 жыл бұрын

@@francescominoguarino827 I agree, but I don't really mind that it's pointless. It was a mini series that was John's take on the joker and its various incarnations. I'm glad that it is kind of removed from canon to be like "here are some things you can continue, but leaving them alone is ok too".

Feels like someone at Marvel told Aaron to write Moon Knight into the Avengers and he took the opportunity to make fun of Batman

@silverbanshee7519

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so old, I remember when Moon Knight WAS an Avenger, so he wouldn't need to be written in.

I love Moon Knight. He was a big part of me getting into comics. He's had some real cool runs but he can easily be miswritten.

while this run was very weird and definitely didn’t feel like a proper moon knight story, seeing marc as the phoenix has to be one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen in comics

I think they wanted to highlight Moon Knight because he's going to get his own series soon and that's it. It was very shoe horned in.

Man this was a fun watch. Not because you kinda ragged on the run but because it felt honest and sincere. You also pointed out the the fun bits. Thanks for sharing as always

I’m going to be honest I thought the thumbnail was Batman vs moon knight when I was scrolling

@heyjeremiahwhite.

3 жыл бұрын

agreed.

@Friendly_Neighborhood_Edgelord

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel De leon That's Red Hood...

@Friendly_Neighborhood_Edgelord

3 жыл бұрын

@Daniel De leon Oh sorry I didn't even realize that

@horseoperamarker

3 жыл бұрын

h

This run has been really hit and miss for me whenever get bored and think about taking it off my pull a really good arch comes and sucks me back in

Thank you so much for putting the comics you talk about in the description

They explained why Moon Knight could beat Danny and Strange. Marc was super charged by the biggest super moon ever, and him and Khonshu are powered by the moon. Its explained when he takes Dr. Stranges power.

@phabiorules

3 жыл бұрын

My question about that is this. It is said that he is able to control different moons through his powers, and that is how he traps thor. With that in mind, why not just make every night a supermoon?

One positive of this run is that it set up imo Moon Knights best run with the Jed McKay midnight mission onward.

If only stealing someone's car actually gave you the owner's identity, who wouldn't steal the batmobile?

I won't lie, when I first read Moon Knight doing what he did I legit thought the guy was dreaming, that's how convenient his wins over the other Avengers were.

I love this format you've been doing! I'm super happy you finally talked about Moon Knight, he's my favorite character :D For me what was disappointing about Age of Khonshu was that Moon Knight backtracked on all his previous comics. Like he was never a devout follower of Khonshu and always had a strained relationship, and when Lemire wrote MK he was finally free of his control. I feel like Bemis and Aaron really just went back to Khonshu and made Marc go through the same arc but not as good as before. Plus I don't think Jason Aaron really understands mental illness and really skipped over that part of MK even though it's really important. Anyway love this video (and all of them duh), if you do another Moon Knight story I think Conan: Serpent War or Contagion are really good stories that are recent and not too long! :)

Scarlet witch be like : no more moonkhight

What would have worked is if Moon Knight explained the situation of Konchud's plan to Dr. Strange 1st. He would be like: "Hey Strange... mephisto is going to take over the world and I need to track down the next in line of the ancient avengers. I know you are one of them." Strange would of course see this as a big calling as the Sorcerer Surpreme and ask what Konchud plan is with combining those powers. It's then Moonknight will say that it needs to be combined into one hero... konchud's champion (aka him) to defeat Mephisto once and for all. Strange will say that those powers aren't ment to be put in 1 mere mortal.. even one supported by gods, but Moon Knight reinferm his point onto Strange and we cut to black. THEN Moonkight fights Iron Fist for the right of the power but having Dr. Strange's magic, tricks Iron Fist and defeats him, claiming the power. Then the whole vs Thor Thing happens and the moonrock and finally black panther comes in and we put in Drake's suggestion that they are siblings and that the gods have to talk it out, not their chosen champions. And then Moonknight goes to Mephisto, says the moon god knows his plan and kills him, Mephisto smirks as he dies and then the whole other Mephisto's start showing up. Konchud steps up his game to gain the last two powers... and... yea.. that's how it should go. It is then revealed Strange willingly gave his power to Moon Knight cause he foresaw a godlike war ending up, but then tells Moon Knight with Black Panther. "God's can be wrong too... Konchud knows he was tricked, he is simply grasping for dominion of the world that he is not fit to gouvern over. He is out of his league." Then we got the spreading of powers... and the phoenix? Yea that one is summoned by the person who has dr. strange's powers to be an extra aid against Mephisto and Konchud. In the meantime Konchud's followers are after Starbrand and guess what? He is looking for a new moon knight too. And thats where it leaves off I guess?

Love these comic talks! Keep em coming!!

This feels like a deadpool esque non-canon side story. Like "deadpool kills everyone"

@coca_0146

3 жыл бұрын

atleast the deadpool ones are funny

I think your videos like this are pretty good, you should do more comic review/what you are reading videos

Well I still say Chang Chi is better, because martial arts are also his whole thing, doesnt even have a magic fist.

awesome work! really hope you make more videos reviewing story lines

I really hate how Moon Knight and more specifically the Fist Of Khonshu is as powerful as the writers want it to be. Like as far as im aware of, Khonshu has never been able to just straight up absorb powers, but yet he can in this

what a weird direction to take a moon knight comic with the avengers in it

Keep up the awesome work

I've been loving the unscripted content as of late! It really helps make the otherwise Herculean task of catching up on comics relatively easy to do, plus it's always nice to see your thoughts and opinions. you seem really comfortable when you're doing the unscripted videos too! I'd definitely want to see more of these!!!

This was good. I love your bigger videos, but these are good as hold overs :)

this comic is on the same level as ultron/vision slicing thanos in half in 1 second with the mind stone in the What If series

the way you were describing the book sounded a lot like a pitch meeting; unrefined, barely connected plot points meant to summarize the intent of an upcoming project. In other words, it sounds like the story could be saved by turning it into a long running series and exploring the concepts deeper, with some sort of comic shenanigans to explain how this book is just the short version. God-like being (above the in universe gods) who got a vision of future events in the form of this book? Retcon into the post arc summary comic? I wont trash the book for having ideas, only for not executing them to their full extent. If that rumor of a moon knight show is true, this could act as its pitch. I would love to see the concepts explored be expanded to fit the character better. Explain WHY each fight with a hero was successful, explore the reincarnated devil plot by focusing on each fight (or at least more than the 1 or 2 you imply are present with enough ramifications to justify), explore the struggle between a devout worshipper and godly degrees they disagree with, and the lust for power that can corrupt a previously good god into a world conqueror (the god's temple and New York, not moon knight's). Intertwine the mental health issues core to the character into each of the above expansions and the story turns from a too fast "meh" to something worth remembering. The biggest problem i see with expanding is how it likely needs 3 arcs to do it justice: a prequel arc to set up starbrand, the original avengers, and the descendant line that moon knight has to fight; the devil reincarnation and power gathering arc; and finally the crisis of faith in which moon knight has to fight his patron god, even if only to return the god's sanity, while also dealing with the ramifications of his power stealing.

If it make you feel better that Dazzler video is my favorite video on your channel so far! Super informational & interesting!

I loved this video. Moon Knight is my favorite character in all of comics, and you hit every nail on the head. This arc felt like it could be very fun, but it ended up being even shallower than I expected, and i didn't expect much. The art was great tho.

Dude how do you do it. You talk for MINUTES without a single cut. That’s insane. Keep it going man. Been a fan since forever

@ComicDrake

3 жыл бұрын

This one was actually my fourth take for the video so I definitely knew what my thoughts were going to sound like this time around. 😅

@shababsbotten69

3 жыл бұрын

@@ComicDrake just take the compliment lmao. Love the content man

This is what I love to see, Drake going off on one and not holding back how he feels about a particular comic book 👏🏻 keep on sharing your opinions dude especially regarding this “interesting” topics!

I think it would be funny if Moon Knight flew a plane into Iron Fist as he did with Task Master.

I love your stuff dude :D

This entire comic was a whole ? for me even with the explanation

Dude, these informal more off the cuff videos are great.

idk, I realize it doesn’t make too much sense, but as a huge and long time moon knight fan I couldn’t help but smile to see him be such a badass and get some time to shine

Don’t worry drake your vids are still epic

I like the original title more. It describes it perfectly

Been a MK fan my entire life, and have enjoyed some runs and sat through others. Some people know how to write MK, and some don't. That's honestly why i'm both over the moon (heh) and also terrified for the MCU show. Generally they're doing great with these IPs, so my hopes are still high, but... yeah time will tell. With where Phase 4 seems to be going though, My man looks like he'll fit right in, so it's a great time to introduce him imo.

Jason Aaron writes for his own "Aaron Verse". I had to learn that the hard way since with him, things wont make sense, but his comeback will be " I have ideas"

@noampresnete8677

3 жыл бұрын

Basically all the superstar writers have more interest in their story's over everyone elses. Not that there's anything wrong with it

Certified Greg moment.

Knowing about Moon Knight, I'm just wander if everything you just described only happened in Marc Spector's head.

CEO: we need a new moon knight comic. Writer: Random bullshit go!

never read this book but this just sounds like megaman

I liked the video but goddamn I really like your hairstyle >.

No, It's Shang Chi. He is pure skill, no gimmicky iron fist.

Honestly i just like the book it's really cool to see a crazy guy beating up the marvel universe

I don’t remember if I said this on the last video but I’m a big fan of this new style of video. I don’t want it to replace the normal style but these are fun to watch

Lillie: “I can’t lie, whenever I use the power copy / steal or ability I try to use there abilities make sense or have a reason.”

I just got back into reading comics, started off with the immortal hulk and 2016 vision then started reading this run of the avengers and ohhhh boy the difference of quality! Probably shouldn’t have jumped back in with such great books

what they should have done (in my opinion) is do a full on avengers movie where they portray moon knight as the main villain and he does get the powers and all until Black Panther wins. Then Moon Knight reveals what his intentions were and they just team up against Mephisto(s). But that would just be kinda confusing in sense of the timing and all that is going on, but it would have made for a great movie.

When the b-listers wanna rank up

I feel like the order of heroes probably should have changed, since he went from beating the sorcerer supreme, who fights gods, and Thor, who is a god, to struggling against black panther

Hey Damnation is a really fantastic even that showed early on that Donny Cates can completely go, I love everything about it.

3:03 Insert JOJO Reference here

@theonlychickensama8353

3 жыл бұрын

Fist of North Star too lol

So most people are trying to learn about moon knight because of the Disney+ show, I learned about him because of that "super hero squad" toy line and thought he looked cool😂

As a moon knight fan, my biggest issue is "what's the point?" Aaron's entire run is based around thr star brand and the prehistoric avengers, and gathering them all together once again. So what was the purpose of this run? The major things were Khonshu taking over earth, MK getting the pheonix force, and then Khonshu dying. All of those got retconned, with the one exception being Khonshu dying (which they always could bring him back).

2:43 MCU fans: we haven’t heard that name spoken in eons

whats happenning is that hes getting a show on disney plus sometime so they gotta make him popular

See I just thought moon knight was just half crazy and half delusional and he just dreamt up the entire thing.

This story just goes along with the plot overpowers what a character can actually do and like ig the mjonir one does kinda make sense since uru does come from a moon

Moon Knight is the best anime protag that absorbs the power of his.... friends? (He looks cool in that bare combat and abs aesthetic tho -3-)

Feels like Jason Aaron knew his comic was so good it shattered the cosmic balance of the universe. So he put all of the failure needed to balance it again into this book. Just my thoughts.

What are you thought now anyone can a host of the Phoenix. In AVENGERS: ENTER THE PHOENIX

I agree with you whole heartily. I only read the first issue, and was a tad annoyed with how Moon Knight was depicted. That first issue of the Charlie Huston and David Finch run you were holding was what got me into comics. I'm a DC guy now, but still wish Marvel all the best.

What I’m guessing would be that konshu fully fused with him to do this

It's been canonically established in Marvel that Shang Chi will beat Iron Fist in a 1 vs 1 fight almost every time. Iron Fist has superpowers and can punch harder sure, but it doesn't mean anything if he can't land a hit on Shang Chi. Iron Fist was basically a rip off of Shang Chi anyways, albeit with actual super powers. Shang Chi came first and Iron Fist was created years later.

I started trying to read Jason Arron’s avengers run got to the part where they where prophesying Phoenixes and vampires and gave up. The whole series was rubbing me the wrong way with setting up so many simultaneous threats and something about it was off and I just couldn’t stand it.

I just want to see that nerd dacrula pay moon knight back!

@tejastrojan

2 жыл бұрын

Me Too!

This story would be cool if it was a purposeful power swap situation in a different universe. That would be cool

I think it would be awesome if marvel (even if was a small one) made a story about starlord becoming Starlord Supreme

"And....the Phoenix appears.." 😂😂😂 this is so bizarre

Since you mentioned Mephisto, I believe Wandavision will segue and introduce the Moon Knight series on Disney.

I love me some Moon night I've read a lot of his stuff & even this was too much

Sounds like a while bunch of WIS...... One of my main issues with comic books is the consistency. Many times writers completely disregard a characters prior characterization and scaling. You’d think the editor would try to keep the continuity as consistent as they can. I think Marvel needs to seriously consider releasing fewer books in the future.