Hound55
Byfar The Most Evil Thing
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Slott didn't say he had a problem with the supernatural element. He said, and I'm inclined to agree with him, that it was better left ambiguous so that it wasn't known exactly HOW MUCH was due to the lore of Khonshu and how much was Spector being nuts... it worked either way AND it was clever. Moensch did a great job with that.
Also, Moon Knight's been written to have some defence to psychics... while I wasn't a huge fan of that at the time and the reasoning behind it, it IS how he's written.
By leaving the Khonshu/insanity thing ambiguous you have the best of both worlds.
Personally, I wasn't a big fan of Hurwitz's run and would have been interested to see what Huston could have done with more time to more naturally transition Spector back from "a**hole" to decent enough nutbag. It was part of the storyline for him to be that character and while it made him extremely unlikeable you can't just flick that on or off without a decent reason or some quality character development... but with sales dwindling due to where the character was it became clear that Marvel wanted to salvage the character and take him back to hero NOW. Hurwitz was a means to an end in my opinion.
It is a good question about whether it could be too soon for a hiatus during this event, I was thinking they could be using the event to transition to a new writing crew... It would make sense to bring in a new writer who seems to understand and love the character following an event where that character plays a major part... use the event to re-invigorate interest in the character and then bring in that writer.
Also, Moon Knight's been written to have some defence to psychics... while I wasn't a huge fan of that at the time and the reasoning behind it, it IS how he's written.
By leaving the Khonshu/insanity thing ambiguous you have the best of both worlds.
Personally, I wasn't a big fan of Hurwitz's run and would have been interested to see what Huston could have done with more time to more naturally transition Spector back from "a**hole" to decent enough nutbag. It was part of the storyline for him to be that character and while it made him extremely unlikeable you can't just flick that on or off without a decent reason or some quality character development... but with sales dwindling due to where the character was it became clear that Marvel wanted to salvage the character and take him back to hero NOW. Hurwitz was a means to an end in my opinion.
It is a good question about whether it could be too soon for a hiatus during this event, I was thinking they could be using the event to transition to a new writing crew... It would make sense to bring in a new writer who seems to understand and love the character following an event where that character plays a major part... use the event to re-invigorate interest in the character and then bring in that writer.