The "Age of Khonshu" has fallen on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the latest Avengers story arc from Jason Aaron and Javier Garrón, as a godlike Moon Knight raises the dead to reincarnate the world in the image of ancient Egypt. With a legion of avian-skulled moon priests and living mummies, a newly-empowered Moon Knight is unleashed to usher in an era unified by the light of the Old Kingdom god, Khonshu. Under the crescent moon of an anachronistic Egypt, the Avengers find themselves on the run from secret armies risen from the grave in streets of New Thebes City, when Avengers 34 hits stores this May.
The character Moon Knight is unusual in a world of mortal superheroes in that his supernatural abilities come from neither radiation or a rare mutant gene, but from death itself. When mercenary Marc Spector perished in the shadow of a statue of the moon-god, Khonshu in Egypt, he was resurrected as an avatar of the ancient deity, sent back to protect those who travel by night and for his own redemption. Grappling with schizophrenic personalities vying for control of his mind, the cloaked avenger Moon Knight fights the wicked and the villainous under celestial light and on the lunatic fringe. First appearing as a foe in Werewolf by Night, created by Marvel’s Doug Moench + Don Perlin in 1975, Moon Knight was later recast as a hero in Bill Mantlo’s Spectacular Spider-Man in 1978 before earning a monthly title written by Doug Moench with art from Bill Sienkiewicz in 1980. Marc Spector’s bouts with insanity and conflicting personalities received the clinical treatment in Eisner award-winner Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’s Moon Knight, Vol. 6 from 2016.
While affiliated with a number of superhero groups in the Marvel Universe including Avengers, Secret Avengers, and Defenders, Moon Knight is more inclined to labor alone in the dark of night or with street-level vigilantes, Marvel Knights with Daredevil, Black Widow, Dagger, Shang-Chi and Luke Cage. As a crime-fighter, his shadowy disposition is often at odds with itself and its amorally tendencies, cast not an unprincipled delinquent yet engaged in unlawful acts that other might find unconscionable. The latest Avengers story arc from Jason Aaron and Javier Garrón finds Moon Knight infused with ancient power and raised to godhood in the baleful "Age of Khonshu." Thanks to Marvel's official solicitations for May 2020, fans have their first details and look at the cover art for the coming story:
- AVENGERS #34
- Writer: Jason Aaron
- Artist: Javier Garrón
- Cover: Matteo Scalera
- THE AGE OF KHONSHU! An empowered, godlike Moon Knight has just saved the world from fiery ruin. Now an army of mummies and moon priests begins to reshape the world in the image of ancient Egypt. But where does that leave the Avengers? Broken, imprisoned, or on the run in the moonlit streets of New Thebes City.
In the upcoming Avengers #34, armies of mummified warriors and bone-chilling moon priests march in the "Age of Khonshu," under the haunting light of the ominous and godlike Moon Knight. As the world, from K’un-Lun to Wakanda, is transformed in a shadowy reflection of ancient Egypt, Moon Knight’s erstwhile allies, the Avengers flee undead horrors and phantasmal cultists in the sandblasted streets of New Thebes City. Are the Avengers doomed to an early grave, defenders of the pharaohs in a world of the dead? Or will the lunatic god Moon Knight finally see the light?
Avengers #34 hits shelves May 13th, 2020.
Source: CBR