Cover Date: September through December 2026; On Sale Date: July through October 2026
Writer: Jed MacKay; Artist: Devmalya Pramanik; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Editors: Devin Lewis & Alanna Smith; Editor-in-Chief: Stephen Wacker; Cover Artist: Paolo Siqueira (# 6-7) & Jose Luis Soares (# 8-9)
A sentient other-dimensional house called the Mansion Ravenous has devoured Moon Knight's friends and allies, and for help Moon Knight has turned the sorceress Clea Strange. She invokes a ritual to summon a new incarnation of the Midnight Sons, who she clarifies are "not a team". Moon Knight then goes out to recruit the three heroes that the ritual identified. First up is Robbie Reyes, the Ghost Rider, who Moon Knight once encountered to steal his powers. Despite being weary of saving the world, Robbie agrees when Moon Knight says he needs help to save his family. Next up is Blade, the vampire hunter, who agrees to help as soon as he hears the name "Midnight Sons". The final recruit is Daredevil, who refuses until Moon Knight begs him for help saving Tigra, the woman he loves. Later, the four men and Clea meet and pile into Ghost Rider's Hell Charger, which they then use to drive their way through the front doors of the Mansion Ravenous.
As they move deeper into the massive haunted house, the Midnight Sons are attacked by Ginnarr, a dragon made from the wood and nails of the house itself that had once been Moon Knight's ally. After they defeat the dragon the heroes are confronted by the Ravenous Mansion itself, which is possessing the body of Achilles Fairchild. Moon Knight stops his allies from attacking and tells the Mansion that he has fulfilled his part of their bargain: in exchange for his friends he has brought three heroes with a history of being possessed. Realizing they've been betrayed, the three heroes turn on Moon Knight but are imprisoned magically by the Mansion. However, the Mansion then goes back on his deal with Moon Knight and refuses to release his friends as agreed. Having known all along that this would happen, Moon Knight has Clea invoke the spell started by the Midnight Sons ritual, using the power of the three imprisoned heroes to break them and Moon Knight's other friends free. Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Blade want to settle up with Moon Knight, demanding answers, but they quickly realize that the Mansion Ravenous is still alive. Moon Knight explains that Clea's spell has freed all of the New Yorkers that the Mansion has devoured, and Clea casts a spell that gives every person a mystical weapon to use to destroy the Mansion from the inside, creating the Midnight Militia.
Moon Knight fights his way to the source of the Mansion's power, the Cornerstone of the house, but finds himself lacking the strength to destroy it himself. He's then aided by his enemy, Achilles Fairchild, who has also been freed from the Mansion's enslavement. Fairchild stays behind the destroy the Mansion, while Moon Knight gathers his friends, allies, and the New Yorkers for his escape plan. As the Mansion is destroyed, the heroes are all transported to the Midnight Mission, the sentient house that Moon Knight uses as his base of operations. Daredevil assaults Moon Knight, angered by his manipulation and betrayal, but Moon Knight refuses to fight back. Daredevil, Ghost Rider, and Blade all leave, with the latter explaining that he understands Moon Knight did what he had to do to ensure the kill.
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| Can't say I blame him |
THE ROADMAP
Moon Knight was first called to be a member of the Midnight Sons by Wong in Doctor Strange: Damnation (2018) # 2. Blade is an OG member of the Midnight Sons dating back to Nightstalkers (1992) # 1. Daredevil, Clea, and the Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider
Robbie Reyes last appeared in Spirits of Violence (2025) # 5. He last encountered Moon Knight during the "Age of Khonsu" arc that ran through Avengers (2018) # 33-37, when Moon Knight stole the Spirit of Vengeance from Robbie and tried to take over the world.
Moon Knight's claim that all three of his Midnight Sons teammates have a history of possession is accurate: Ghost Rider was possessed by the hellhound Sarge in Avengers (2018) # 14-17; Blade was possessed by the first vampire, Varnae, during the 2025 Blood Hunt event; and Daredevil was possessed by the Beast of the Hand during the 2010 Shadowland event.
CHAIN REACTION
CHAIN REACTION
Jed MacKay reintroduces a version of the Midnight Sons into his run on Moon Knight, with a twist that goes a long way to sell both the idea behind the team and the ruthlessness of the main character.
I'm not a huge Jed MacKay fan. I've read a large portion of his run on Moon Knight, but finally gave up around the time of Blood Hunt, which was I believe three relaunches ago. Seriously, this series has been cancelled and started again with a title change so many times it's hard to keep track of it, but if that's what it takes to keep a series running in today's market, so be it. But yeah, MacKay, he's had a good long run with the character and has surrounded Moon Knight with a varied supporting cast. I can see why this series has its fans and I love that the character has enjoyed such a dedicated creative voice behind him. However, MacKay has always been a writer that I feel pads out his comics with lots of big action moments while skimping out on character work; that's something especially glaring in his X-Men series.
One thing MacKay is good at, though, is dredging up and respecting continuity, and he does do that here with the Midnight Sons. Granted, this is not the Midnight Sons that readers may remember, as only Blade is present from the original line-up and Daredevil is at first a rather bizarre inclusion, but it does all make sense once the writer introduces his twist. It's a good mix of characters and MacKay handles all of their personalities very well, especially when it comes to their attitudes and interactions with Moon Knight. Of course, there's the elephant in the room that Moon Knight is the main character and thus has to be awesome at everything, it's typical Batman syndrome, and the others do kind of get played as chumps while favoring Moon Knight. Fair enough, though, it IS Moon Knight's book after all.
It's also very nice to see Robbie Reyes pulled back into circulation as a normal street-level vigilante character divorced from all of the Avengers All-Rider nonsense that Jason Aaron saddled him with. Reyes was a great character for his first few years, but he'd been pulled so far afield from what made him engaging that I was worried he would forever be damaged goods. MacKay doesn't treat him as a novice or naive, which is appreciated, and he fits in nicely with this collection of heroes.
The best part of these issues, though, is undoubtedly the artwork by Devmayla Paramanik. He's not an artist I have much familiarity with, but I will say he was by far the stand-out of all the artists that were involved in the last Spirits of Vengeance series. His work here far eclipses my expectations, though, because these comics are beautiful. The layouts and action sequences are drawn so well, this is one fiercely kinetic series of issues that rarely slows down and is never once boring to look at. The action scene in issue # 7, when the Midnight Sons fight the giant dragon, is amazing and I spent several minutes just staring at some of the pages to take it all in. The colors, too, by Rachelle Rosenberg are just perfect. I mean, just look at the page with Daredevil's radar sense directing his fight with the dragon, it's incredible.
Ultimately, the Midnight Sons team-up doesn't matter and is just there to show what a ruthless badass Moon Knight is, but it still makes for an entertaining story. It probably went on an issue too long, and the ending doesn't make a lot of sense to me because I don't regularly read this series, but I'm not sorry I picked these up.
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