Moon Knight Saves The Avengers! | Marvel: Contagion

[@ThexHoneyBadger]

New head canon, The Thing has microscopic rocks for antibodies that clobber any and all infectious disease

[@AGuyWithTheFace]

After a full year and nothing but likes, I think the motion carries. The upcoming thing series better have this in there.

[@Volvagia1927]

Señor Magico. So, basically: We don't have Doctor Strange. But we do have his non-union Mexican equivalent.

[@saintofswords6988]

Es Muy Bueno

[@Ashguy733]

As a Latino I laughed my ass off.

[@mykemendoza7644]

@@Ashguy733 same

[@NovaPrimo119]

Dudes from Spanish Harlem, he isn’t Mexican he’s Boricua all the way. Put some respect on his name

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Sounds like a bootleg toy of Doctor Strange

[@BBmetalhead04]

21:20 “The Avengers show up, but they don’t save the day.” They wouldn’t be the Avengers otherwise.

[@HoseaDrawsStuffSometimes]

"Yeah, but he's a superhero" "Yeah, but fuck him" This is honestly the most simplistic and authentic way to describe Ben Grimm's existence in the Marvel Universe.

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Moon Knight, the hero Marvel deserves but not the one they need right now.

[@frankmarazzo8814]

Moon knight: hands out pamphlets LMAO

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

"There's no way out!" "You're right, Jessica. Sometimes it does seem like there's no way out. Like it's hopeless. But remember, there's always someone there for us." "Who?” "My best friend and personal savior, Khonshu."

[@SpiralSine6]

Just Some Guy with a Mustache “Are… are you fucking with me right now?” “… maybe?”

[@frankmarazzo8814]

Who knows? Khonshu might have the answers, has anyone asked him?

[@allendrake6960]

"Good evening, Avengers! Do you have a moment to hear about my--I mean, _our_ Lord and savior, Khonshu?"

[@thedukeofchutney468]

@@allendrake6960 Cap: “There’s only one God sir; and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t dress like an Ancient Egyptian member of the KKK.” Thor: 😑

[@theadmiral7471]

39:08 Sparrow: we found an ancient sacred kun lun text Iron Fist: THE SACRED TEXTS!

[@HollowGolem]

11:00 Not to get all Biblical, but Mark 6:4 (as well as several similar passages in other Gospels) "Only in his home town, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honour." So the idea of getting no respect for the hometown crowd is apparently an old Jewish proverb, at least according to the Gospelers.

[@MehDusta]

Moon Knight passing out pamphlets to convert people to Khonshu is something I need animated

[@SpiralSine6]

55:43 Alright, I’m not 100% why, but Moon Knight the Traveling Priest absolutely hit me the right way, funniest shit I’ve heard in weeks

[@ForgottenBud]

Not even 20 seconds in and you guys already got me cracking up.

[@neal2399]

It’s been a while since I watched this show. I honestly got scared that it would become a Collider-esque nightmare of you guys losing the passion for it but still cranking out videos to pay the bills. I’m so pleasantly surprised that it still feels like a group of buddies laughing about good and bad comics together, it’s seriously heartwarming! Everyone’s just as enthusiastic and relaxed as ever, thanks for keeping that same passion for all these years!

[@pbjoey703]

Moon knight love is always appreciated even if he’s crazy enough to take your face off.

[@RamsTheNameCom]

@PBJoey ...Moon Knight did it once only because (according to interview) Charlie Huston wanted to reference the Edger Allen Poe story "A Tell Tale Heart", but in Moon Knight's case it was Bushman's tattooed face that was haunting him and not a crooked eye. Which is why he had to kill him and keep his face as a souvenir.

[@mitchellregan21]

That pun discussion towards the end was my favourite part. Ethan being ashamed of his own pun was great.

[@nowonda2051]

24:18 Mutants: Where were you when Genosha was nuked. Humans did that. Sal: You’re human! Me: Yeah, what he said.

[@David-io4sg]

Anytime Sal says “I love it,” you know it’s about to go batshit.

[@seanrutherford728]

51:47 Tony Stark shouldn't need to physically be there either......He can just control the suit remotely and seeing as he's done it before from space, I'd say he can manage it from the North Pole

[@JakeTylenol]

Okay maybe not Crisyst, But what about Cris-SICK

[@Omar-wq9dz]

Hey Sal, Ben, Ethan, Tiffany, would you all consider doing back issues for other Moon Knight stories, such as ones from writers like Warren Ellis and Jeff Lemire, for example?

[@andrepina2323]

I read all of them and all I have to say is... YES. Definitely. Read them, you will thank me later.

[@grantswann9328]

Yes please

[@goodguybrian9764]

Hopefully not warren Ellis man has sexually exploited an ungodly amount of woman

[@Doom-qg4je]

2:40 nice , I thought everyone forgot about C.H.U.D's 😂

[@Gabe600]

funny you mention that after the last Rick and Morty episode

[@spagredo]

You know when I wanted more Moon Knight on back issues, this wasn’t what i was expecting

[@Ayrton_Chitwood]

That cough at the beginning had me laughing immediately, felt like a really good, guick rlm gag. Can't wait to see what's next.

[@sundered_ant]

Absolutely loved that opening discussion about the moloids - whenever you guys just talk and joke in-depth about a specific facet of the world's lore(?) it is really entertaining. Reminds me of the Dungeoncast I have been watching recently where they talk about a specific monster in D&D each episode.

[@AkiDave]

I’m like “oh a 90s comic about a virus breakout” and then I found out it came out last year 👀wot

[@loreaver3882]

xD

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

If marvel wasn't publishing a million books every week this could've done better with better editorial support and promotion.

[@jorgerivera8990]

About Yancy St : Ben Grimm grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Yancy St is Delancey Street. Jack Kirby grew up in the neighborhood and used that as background for The Thing :)

[@accidentalmadness1708]

“It came out on time” immediate red flag

[@punkxblaze]

Hurray, early back issues! I'm laid up in the hospital right now with some bum kidneys, so my regular fix of comic summation is a real spirit lifter.

[@comicpop]

Hope you get out soon! Feel better, Ian!

[@punkxblaze]

@@comicpop Thanks, you guys are awesome

[@GitShiddy]

Oh my god....The Avengers are told to stay-at-home & the D-Listers are essential workers! This book is practically prophetic! 🤣 And Iron Man is a Karen, genius.

[@spoonlolol2]

Ethan’s puns are my spirit animal

[@gregtin87]

This day cant get better I'm back to work another, back issues, and tha.....omg is it raining donuts?!?!?! No...wait no just normal rain but still best day ever ty guys😋

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

How was every dad in this event taken down? Their DadButts should've protected them from the Fungus Zombies. _They even had a limitless supply of bricks fighting alongside them!_

[@williamgazca6641]

85k heads nodded in agreement at once when you were mentioned by name recently on elseworlds mighty stache. I

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

@@komickid833 Yo!

[@Scororo]

As a huge Moon Knight and Iron Fist fan, this book pisses me off. This is practically a book made for me and it sucks, honestly glad I skipped it

[@TsunamiStudios56]

Scoro same man. So weird

[@losingisntloosing.stopit1396]

Love MK... screw marvel

[@DokBrass]

Few runs beat Ellis’s MK run

[@losingisntloosing.stopit1396]

@@DokBrass loved the Huston run with Finch. Moench was good too

[@Jokezz101]

I actively avoided Contagion and Leviathan so I'm very happy you've covered both of them!

[@fearnloathingingeneral]

57:07 best Moon Knight rant ever lmfao

[@RamsTheNameCom]

@Fear & Loathing in Germantown ....In the comic's defense, it was reusing a strategy Moon Knight used in the then current Max Bemis comics to fight off the Contagion. As for why "The Contagion can't effect everyone is his psyche even though he is only one person"..... it never made sense in the Max Bemis comic since Moon Knight was just suppose to be crazy during that run. Same with Jeff Lemire.... HOWEVER, in the Warren Ellis run it was canon that Khonshu was real and he was the one with multiple personality disorder. Not Marc Spector. But by Khonshu living inside Marc's head, Marc too must shift identities to match and balance with Khonshu. If we're talking Doug Moench's canon (the creator), Doug Moench wanted the reader to be unsure if Khonshu was real or if Moon Knight was just crazy. Doug Moench's answer for this was Khonshu is not real but Moon Knight is not inherently crazy. He nearly died in Egypt and had an "end of life crisis" which led him into having a false religious moment with a fictional god. Doug Moench never showed Khonshu, rather just had Marc praying to a statue and have some moments of wind blowing as though Khonshu heard Marc. As for "Multiple Personality Disorder"...... Moon Knight only had disguises.... However some writer named "Steven Grant" picked up the comic briefly after Doug Moench and gave Moon Knight multiple personality disorder and a white costume. This will be the Moon Knight that most know today.

[@JayTheBoat]

For all it’s flaws, I quite enjoyed Contagion! Plus it’s always nice to see Moon Knight doing something in the foreground in a team up book...

[@eqs1782]

I'm surprised L.I.M.P. was able to keep the barrier up . . .

[@hooliganmulligan]

12:00 another reason why the yancy Street kids and teens bother ben is because he used to be part of the local street gang and he left after his brother died in a gang fight so they view him as a traitor.

[@comicpop]

There's no way those kids are in a gang.

[@hooliganmulligan]

ComicPOP true but kids are cruel nevertheless

[@mothhra]

New Back Issues just made my day !

[@batfreeze56]

When I read the title, for some reason I thought this was going to be a Savage Screen on the Matt Damon movie, "Contagion".

[@Promin3nce]

I never even heard anyone mention this, like ever. I thought this was some obscure wallmart title or something when i saw the thumbnail.

[@rojojero8795]

Wasn't "Rotworld" the story where the black invades the DC Universe and Animal man and Swamp Thing team up to beat it ?

[@welshinc5782]

Yes, it was one of the new 52 first crossovers. Justice league dark and the ravengers (I think that's what they were called) were involved as well

[@thetreeshaker4143]

That was my first signed book. Paquette even painted a swamp thing on the inside cover and I’ll always be appreciative for that.

[@marcushamner5994]

0:18 That COVID-19 reference though!😂😂😂

[@nobodyspecial9097]

55:45 I died

[@billybatson8495]

I hope bros before heroes become 's a recurring joke

[@citizensupreme4705]

Is it wrong that I have not heard of this book yet? Probs not. Is it wrong that I’m late to a Back Issues episode? Yesss

[@Mat23]

I had a chance to talk to Ed about his books when he was signing copies of "The Displaced" this past february in east coast canada. I had brought some books to sign, like his Iron Fist run. He said that he named the martial arts techniques in the IF run after songs by rock bands he liked as a kid. Then 😂 he chuckled when I passed him Contagion floppies and TPB to sign. He was shocked and asked me what I thought of it. I replied: "It was in my Iron Fist and Moon Knight reading order. Just like Serpent War was." 😂 He laughed and signed all my books and comics. What a swell guy. 😅

[@hugazian1158]

This episode made me nostalgic...reminded me of episodes from year 2 and 3- classic sal, Ethan, Ben back and forth banter

[@Martin_TheCollector]

The first thing that came to my mind from seeing the thumbnail was Batman's Contagion story lol. I might give this one a read later!

[@ShawnWeeded510]

The tunnels under Newyork lead to a portal to the Heavenly City. They wrote it in a old Ironfist book where Orsin Randall shows up and takllks about the book of the Ironfists.

[@taylorzomer5223]

I love how Sal absolutely nails the Canadian sorry 😂😂😂 not too much, justtt right

[@sundered_ant]

Another thought I had while watching this video - if I ever got a chance to write mini-series for one of the big two publishers, I would probably fill it with C or D-List characters as well. As for your comments at the end - there actually was a story in which The Black infects/conquers the DCUniverse, but it was just confined to the Animal Man and Swamp Thing series from New 52.

[@chrishimoto5895]

As a New York kid, I'd steal city hall and respect the thing's realness, even if Yancy Street isn't real

[@torinforst]

I was expecting an appearance by Man-Thing like Sal proposed at the end when he brought up D listers and a plant/fungus based enemy

[@RandyRivers2]

DC's Contagion: 52 Weeks Later

[@jonathanshaw9704]

6:18- So basically Eveline from Resident Evil 7?

[@MrCeratix]

Where's my cosmic D-list event Marvel? I need it so badly

[@Sqoobthedude]

Dükkan infinity war the book?

[@Fatboyftw32]

I mean...Annihilation exists.

[@meyes5671]

@@Fatboyftw32 I want one where Quasar doesn't die

[@22gryphon]

You would think Spider-man would be mentioned since he he is the guy that Reed calls for things involving biology(he is a biochemist). Anytime Marvel does a zombie type thing if Peter wasn't always the first infected he could probably solve it.

[@kazen16]

The moon knight bit is the most funny thing I've heard in weeks 🤣 you guys are awesome!

[@afanofstuff9123]

54:50 why aren't the military getting involved? well obviously Señor Magico's magic dome is stopping anything from leaving or entering he's just that powerful.

[@barraki6706]

(1:16:13) NOW it's really the Flood!

[@AshenJackal]

I read it, enjoyed it, and recommended it at the time, but like no one else cared. 😭

[@hasthehighground8560]

I love back issues to start my day.

[@UntoldRelic]

No one else noticed that one of the L.I.M.P. members is Doug Henning? 41:25

[@Benm701]

"Let's all pray to Khonshu."

[@greatstoneplanet]

I was retail therapy shopping last year and pre-ordering Dawn of X variants from mycomicshop. I ended up pre-ordering this whole series. On reading it, I just remember thing that this cataclysm will never be referenced by any character involved and will no impact on the Marvel universe whatsoever. The only reason it was greenlit was to help to flood the shelves.

[@caitlinbrewer4843]

I like the idea that the X-Men are watching this from Krakoa with bewildered expressions on their faces.

[@BurnedChiliMan]

Awesome! I didn’t even hear about this! Seems cool right off the bat! 😎

[@yuranft9740]

I hope they talk about one of my favorites “daytripper” from vertigo. It’s not super hero comic but worth reading!

[@ghosfox1292]

So this is Marvel does “The Last of Us.”

[@wattswant6232]

I’m so happy someone else said it

[@caitlinbrewer4843]

YES!

[@brandong3469]

44:40 im getting "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever" flashbacks. one of the most disgusting movies ive ever seen. no one ever noticed they were full of puss filled sores until they were dead, leaving the audience to suffer the visuals. i watched it with my mom.

[@mitchellgeorge2560]

I remember being the only person buying this from my shop a few months ago. Ironically when this book ended the whole covid thing began.

[@ChipO414]

There is no real life Yancey street in New York. But it is based on Delancey street where Jack Kirby grew up.

[@comicpop]

10:20

[@JLD22591]

Obviously the DC version's star D-list heroes would be Booster Gold and Blue Beetle teaming up with Swamp Thing. So obviously the book would be called The Blue and the Mold: Booster Shot.

[@peterzeppeli2563]

MOON KNIGHT HEEELLL YEAH!

[@matthewchristoffers3282]

Hey guys, let's all wear a T-shirt and a unbuttoned flannel

[@mttylerdurden9]

Steven soderbergh:(See's comic title) hey! Hold the F#@k up! 🤣😂

[@amolerat4456]

11:37 Me a nyc kid : this tracks

[@yeaaboi85]

I can’t believe you just mentioned c.h.u.d..... 🧟‍♂️🤣. And yes I am old enough to understand that reference... not sure if that’s a good thing or not lol🤷🏾‍♂️😅 Great show guys!!!

[@dertitan4870]

Not the best story, but "YAY" Moon Knight again on the channel and "YAY" Iron Fist.

[@eqs1782]

Like that fungus that releases pores that infects ants and makes them leave the nest to protect the fungus or something along that line.

[@Wright805]

Exactly! Reed Richards even makes that exact comparison.

[@EX-Flashkick]

I’m from New York and kids would definitely throw rocks at superheroes.

[@Chatedh]

I have to say... Señor Magico sounds pretty cool xD

[@rudedude7874]

How did you not mention Doctor Druid at 41:35

[@yolanda8563]

This whole plot is like the writer got high watched tomb raider and played the last of us

[@TheX2k]

Deceased vs. Contagion. Deceased wins

[@Krisfit138]

DChungus: the Fungus Among Us "Part I: Contagion - All I Ever Wanted" "Part II: Contagion - Gotta Get Away"

[@sammysamiam5219]

The very second you guys said punisher plus zombies I am mediately thought of the doom guy song

[@Ashguy733]

This woulda been the perfect time for Ben Franklin's ghost to show up.

[@Deadpoolio47]

As soon as I saw Moon Knight I had to click and buy this on amazon... it’s £4 for the whole series...

[@JakeTylenol]

Most people in the comments of the last back issues I read said they didn’t know this event existed or they forgot about it, But THIS is actually a story I’ve never heard anything about the fuck

[@wallacebruce1997]

Yancy street is marvel version of Delancey street

[@TheRealZubes]

Yep, I think Sal was going to put a graphic in about how it's presumed to be named for the neighborhood Jack Kirby grew up in, but he might have just let it go.

[@Bryan-gy2zu]

Don’t worry, watch a *minute more* of the vid and you’ll see that Sal “um, actuallyed” himself

[@wallacebruce1997]

Bryan yeah I noticed when I rewatched it I was not paying attention to my screen at the time

[@ghilliedude434]

Spider-man was doinking shadow cat there

[@allydrawsthings]

whoo hoo its a low key iron fist story!

[@DaneFalco]

Reminds me from something from the Fiend Folio in 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons

[@Vamroc]

I seem to recall IDW had a Contagion event of their own a few years back

[@adambuckley2270]

Hold on...This is Maximum Carnage

[@KGTurnak]

When in doubt - pray to Khonshu

[@Depthcharge2030]

You know, this is probably unintentional on Brisson's part, but during Warren Ellis' 6 issue run on Moon Knight, Moon Knight encounters a haunting involving nightmares affecting people and invades a dead man's dreams to discover his death by fungal infection. So, the events bad, but Moon Knight has this precedent for combating disease through the power of the mind.

[@comicpop]

Such a great issue: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fV68c6dsqrOUjbs

[@ryebreadreturn1]

I thought of that book as well when Moon Knight showed up.

[@TheGreatDevlin]

I didn't even know about this. I assumed it was an old story.