The early issues (Moon Knight's first appearance and his first "main run") isn't that good but it's somewhat interesting if you're interested in reading about how a character evolves from a a couple of issues as a villain in an second-fiddler Marvel title, to a Batman-but-less-good expy.

His first "main run" (which cements his origin story, introduces the personas, and his cast of secondary characters) is pretty meh as well, although there's some great issues there and there.

There's a few arcs there and there that are nice, IIRC High Strangeness is supposed ot be well-liked but I only remember the name of it.

I think what's interesting about MK really starts in the famous 2006 run, which really pivoted the character from someone that was useful for filling up a backwood Avengers team to a character that actually offered something different. The quality of the run itself may be up to debate (I wans't too fond of it myself, to be honest, except for a few great moments I just didn't care much), but it's clearly left its imprint on the character ever since.

I think Bendis' run is hated by pretty much everyone.

The real Moon Knight renaissance starts in 2014 with the Marvel Now! relaunch. A short but sweet run mostly made of single issues telling complete stories. You can read them even without deep knowledge of the character, and I think most of the issues are very good.

Lemire's run is quite boring, although it's a decent way to have a clean break from the character's tumultuous and not that valuable history. It's almost immediatly followed by Bemis' run which I find insultingly bad.

MacKay has been Moon Knight's writer since 2021, I don't know if he's the writer that stuck with MK the longest, but he definitely brought a level of consistency to the character and overall his run is very well-liked (and I share the sentiment). You can pick this one with zero knowledge of the character and it still works, although I think reading the 2014 run is a plus.

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