From the Dead (Moon Knight, #1) by Warren Ellis

​I read Jeff Lemire’s Moon Knight trilogy and was left thoroughly unimpressed. And I’m a HUGE Lemire fan. It was mostly the Moon Knight himself that didn’t do it for. Or so I thought.
And then, primarily due to our library’s scarcity of choices when it comes to quality e-versions of graphic novels, I read more Moon Night. Once more, a trilogy. But this time done by three different authors. So I read book one and lo and behold, I saw the appeal of the man in white. I even learned why he wears white to fight crime at night - it’s because he’s so kickass, he wants the criminals to see him coming.
So where did Lemire go wrong and Ellis go right?
Well, for my money, Lemire’s concept took things too seriously concentrating on Moon Knight’s very messed up state of mind, thus making it interesting and moody and dark but also, oddly enough, not that compelling. Or maybe just not what I expect or like in conventional superhero fare.
Ellis just kind of had fun with it. Less text, more action. Less inner thoughts, more outer swagger. Plus, the graphic novel comprises five individual self-contained stories, which I really liked as a format for this sort of thing. And it read very quickly. So yeah, I’m gonna read the other ones in this trilogy, see if the quality holds up. Moon me, Moon Knight.