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While no fans guessed Zodiac in Jed Mackay's contest, that only makes it more impressive that the writer has chosen a villain who's somehow both a perfect fit and someone not even the most committed Moon Knight fans guessed.A community for the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.
Zodiac is a little more comfortable with sex and violence than the average Marvel supervillain, and is both unpredictable and joyfully vicious - in short, the perfect foil for a "hero" who instantly threatens to cut his opponent's face off when threatened. Having successfully operated behind the scenes for years, Zodiac now claims that he's grown irritated with Moon Knight's wasted potential, infiltrating his new Midnight Mission to get the measure of the hero before striking with a deadly and characteristically well-calculated plan.
A counter-cultural activist concerned with tearing down established authority whether good or evil, Zodiac's signature move is to cause mass chaos to cover his own schemes - for example, releasing the Red Ronin mech on New York to obtain the powerful Scorpio Key. But while comic fans may not be immediately familiar with the villain, they can rest assured he's a genius choice. Zodiac is a genuinely deep-cut comic reference, first appearing in Dark Reign: Zodiac #1 and just a few other times since. Fans guessed everyone from Purple Man and Kraven the Hunter to Deathwatch, Man-Wolf, and Dracula (who Mackay jokingly confirmed, only to make it clear it wasn't the vampiric lord Marc calls " a bif f***ing nerd" in the widely circulated meme.) The answer was revealed a week later on November 17, when brutal crime the Zodiac featured on the last page of the issue.
Related: Moon Knight's New Backstory Just Made Him Marvel's Most Complicated HeroĮach fan got one guess, the competition would run until November 10, and Mackay even provided the information that the villain was a character who already existed in the Marvel Universe and hadn't fought Moon Knight before.
However, on November 2 Mackay shared a challenge on Twitter, promising a signed copy of Moon Knight #1 to any fan who guessed the mystery villain shown cloaked in shadow in issue 4, and set for a full appearance in issue 5. Of course, that poses something of a problem for a comic-book hero, and Marc's recent relaunch has seen him go up against Spider-Man villain Vermin, Punisher nemesis Jigsaw, and his secret opposite number Hunter's Moon. While he's been around since 1975's Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight doesn't have much of a rogues gallery, and that's for one simple reason - former mercenary Marc Spector's crime-fighting persona is so hardcore, most of his enemies are either dead or were scared straight long ago. Warning: contains spoilers for Moon Knight #5!ĭespite Moon Knightwriter Jed Mackay offering fans a prize for guessing the hero's newest villain - and even offering clues to their identity - not one fan got the right answer ahead of the recent Moon Knight #5, from Mackay and artist Alessandro Cappuccio, color artist Rachelle Rosenberg, and letterer Cory Petit.