Jed MacKay has been the writer of assorted, "Moon Knight," comics for a good chunk of time now, and I hope he doesn't stop anytime soon. His, "Run," of sorts has been split-up between various series due to assorted events resulting in re-titlings (like when the main Moon Knight, Marc Spector, was dead for a bit). Over the series of, "Moon Knight," "Vengeance of the Moon Knight," and, "Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu," we have witnessed an epic tale from MacKay, however. He's taken bits and pieces of continuity from long ago to recent and woven it all together beautifully.
From taking the messy business of when Moon Knight fought the Avengers and somehow making that work, to salvaging a lot of forgotten elements from, "Marc Spector: Moon Knight," to fun allusions to how Taskmaster is terrified of Moon Knight (after what happened in Huston's run in the early 2000's), the past is brought up in clever ways along with brand new elements. MacKay's work on the series has brought us a bunch of great new characters who are a part of Moon Knight's, "Midnight Mission," to reinvigorating other characters (8-Ball is a hero now, just run with it). One villain who seemed mostly forgotten--Zodiac--has become a fun baddie now too. Older story elements as well as new stuff have melded the disjointed and sometimes confusing continuity of Moon Knight into a fine-tuned machine.
MacKay has had some amazing artists working with him, too, and that has doubtlessly helped a great deal. We've seen much of Alessandro Cappuccio absolutely killing it, and Domenico Carbone has been superb on recent issues as well. Over these assorted Moon Knight series, we've been witnessing the creation of quite an epic yarn. I hope Marvel lets MacKay write Moon Knight as long as he wants to do so, because his stuff is among my top/favorite Moon Knight comics I've ever read.
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