"The End" Week: Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #15!

This feels like a recent trend, or maybe just an accelerating one, as far as "last" issues goes: while ostensibly an ongoing series, a book might have a last issue, so it can kick off with the hype of a new number one. Which is hopefully still a thing? Marvel's acting like it, anyway. We saw the "end" of Moon Knight two years back with Moon Knight #30. (Eight variant covers! Sweet Khonshu.) Then, someone returned in a version of his costume, for Vengeance of the Moon Knight, which had more variant covers than the series had issues. (Although I wouldn't mind the variant for that last issue, which appears to be Godzilla giving Khonshu the business.) Next, Marc Spector returned, for Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, which just got cancelled! Or ended. Either way. And I think this is somehow a fairly successful book? From 2025, Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #15/LGY #255, "The Haunting of the Wrecker, finale" Written by Jed MacKay, art by Domenico Carbone, color art by Rachelle Rosenberg.

In an earlier storyline, Moon Knight had been forced to buy an assist from the Wrecker, who then came to him for help with a ghost problem. Someone calling themselves "the Executor" had summoned the ghosts of the Wrecker's victims to haunt him, and both Moon Knight and the Scarlet Scarab get haunted by ghosts from their mercenary days. With the Wrecker possessed, Moon Knight thinks he's going to have to use the soul-eating Asgardian sword Ginnar (um, actually it's from Vanaheim) but the vampire Reese defuses the situation; in a clever fashion that I won't spoil here.

Unhaunted, the Wrecker is pretty pleased with himself, which pisses Marc off: despite the Wrecker's accusation that his hands weren't exactly clean either, they weren't the same. Marc was trying to get better, while the Wrecker was a remorseless psycho. He calls in an assist, to give the Wrecker the what-for; but after he says goodbye to the Scarab, Marc is tranqed and kidnapped!...to be continued in Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1 in February! MacKay was staying on as writer, but this feels like a smidge of a shake-up; to get Marc away from the support of his...supporting cast, and dig into him being crazypants again, judging by the preview.

So that post from 2023 had the then-most recent last issues of Moon Knight, Punisher, and Daredevil: surprisingly, Frank has returned, although I don't think he has a regular series back yet; and DD appears to be headed for another relaunch as well!