Lunar Cycle

The Immortal Moon Knight and the new Power Man duke it out in this year’s

- STEPHEN JEWELL

AFTER JED MACKAY’S FOCUS ON Kang the Conqueror in the first two volumes, this year’s Timeless one-shot not only features a new main protagonist in the Immortal Moon Knight, but is also written by a new team: Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing.

“Tom Brevoort called and when Tom calls, you answer,” laughs Lanzing, referring to Marvel’s Executive Editor. “This call was a specific challenge – which was to move on from centring the Timeless specials around Kang and utilise a new format to do what Jed had done so well in the previous two.

“Together, we cracked the idea of centring a brand new ‘end of time’ for the Marvel Universe – one that we could use to examine the meaning of these characters in the grand scheme of history.

“Making 40 pages feel like an event is no small feat,” he continues, “but with the entire timeline of the Marvel Universe in our hands, we dedicated ourselves to having some extremely high-octane fun while asking ourselves a simple, haunting question: what does it mean to be the last hero standing, at the end of all things, when there’s nothing left to save?”

With the modern-day incarnation currently meeting his maker in the Jed MacKay-scripted The Death Of Moon Knight and the upcoming