Moon Knight #25 exudes style, brutality, and intrigue, and is a must read across the board. Read Full Review

All of the artists styles blend brilliantly together to create a beautifully detailed, action packed issue. Read Full Review

Fans of the ongoing run of Moon Knight will love this issue as it plays with new and old themes expertly. There isn't a superhero comic as dark and macabre as Moon Knight, and this milestone issue proves that in droves. A compelling character over the years, it's quite clear Moon Knight has never been this weird and awesome at the same time. Read Full Review

Moon Knight #25 gives readers plenty of great art and a solid story in a quadruple-sized issue (counting the backup). That said, the story is just okay, underscoring this series's inability to create memorable villains or moments. Read Full Review

Moon Knight #25 offers an oversized issue that doesn't lead to any important revelations, wrap-up the ongoing story, or offer the unexpected. Read Full Review

That was tremendous! I love moon knight and this book featured everything I love about the character. I am beyond excited they are introducing Layla El-Faouly and the way they did it was fantastic. The story was fantastic, compelling and brutal and the artwork was stunning! This was brilliant and I can't wait to pick up both moon knight books that are coming out

I love Jed MacKay and I love Moon Knight. The $9.99 price tag may make some weary to pick this up, but this issue, along with the rest of the series, is a definite recommend from me. This continues the current ongoing series very nicely, while also generating interest for the new City of the Dead miniseries from David Pepose & Marcelo Ferreira. The present-day story is absolutely fantastic and it feels like a big deal within this run. As for the flashback story, it's a solid and entertaining mission with Marc and Layla. The art is cool here and, despite my usual disliking of the art changing mid-issue, it makes sense here and I liked all of the art throughout. In the end, I'm highly anticipating Issue 26 to see where the story goes from here and I'm intrigued to see how City of the Dead turns out. I think this issue does its job very well, and a job well-done is something MacKay has become very much acquainted with over the past 25 issues of this fantastic series. more

The creators make a terrific meal out of the big stack of bonus pages. The extra space suits their preferred style for MK action, and expanding the flashback to full-issue length works well.

This isn't a big character moment for the protagonist--but it is a spotlight turn for 8-Ball, hooray! And on the plot side of things, an incredible number of puzzle pieces lock tightly together. The latest developments enhance much of what's come before and build tremendous anticipation for the next steps.

This is another solid piece of evidence for my argument that plus-sized "special issues" are best used to tell an extended story instead of being turned into anthologies. This one even has its cake and eats it too, throwing in a middling reprint to round out the page count.
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I thought this was really solid. Lots of story and it all was good. I actually didn't feel jipped of $10 bucks after reading like I normally do with books that size. Good stuff.

After being teased several weeks ago as the start of a major new story arc, MOON KNIGHT #25 finally hit shelves this week and boy was it a doozy. The oversized milestone issue was written by Jed MacKay with art by Alessandro Cappuccio, Alessandro Vitti, and Partha Pratim. This entire creative team, including colorist Rachelle Rosenberg and letterer Cory Petit, does an impressive job spanning multiple time periods across the Moon Knight mythos, keeping stories fresh while also providing enough background and context for infrequent or new readers to catch up and enjoy this as a standalone issue.

Including various eras and making them all feel distinct and meaningful isn’t an easy task but MacKay tactfully combined recapping and adding new layers to past events in addition to keeping current storylines moving forward and adding new chess pieces (namely Layla El-Faouly and the new Black Spectre) to the board for upcoming story arcs.

Cappuccio, Sabbatini, and Rosenberg kept with their artistic approach that has come to define this era of Moon Knight. As usual, it was done very well and effectively, but Vitti’s portion of the book brought a new perspective that perfectly matches a darker, grittier tone for the character. Overall, the combination of artists provided for distinct visualizations without feeling frenetic or disorganized. Each approach felt appropriate for what was unfolding on any given page.

Overall, fans of MacKay’s run on Moon Knight should feel rewarded with this major undertaking and new readers will leave with the anticipation for wanting more given the delectable complexity and darkness of the Moon Knight world MacKay has established. We’re left with the feeling that Moon Knight might not have his best days ahead in the story, but MacKay’s MOON KNIGHT run has never looked better.

Rating: 9/10

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Now THAT'S how you do a $9.99 comic that's worth the cover price

Fun and entertaining issue. I really love and enjoy this.

This was an interesting over-sized issue. Not sure about the $10 price tag, but we did get 70 pages. The change in art style didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. I don't see how the military stuff tied in anywhere and the Black Specter storyline reminded me a lot of Batman's Knightfall, where Bane was throwing villains at Batman to soften him up. This was similar, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.