Marc Spencer reunites with Layla El-Faouly, a fan-favorite character from Disney+’s Moon Knight who is now making their comic book debut, in a brand-new Moon Knight trailer.
Marvel’s new Moon Knight trailer celebrates the official comic book debut of Layla El-Faouly, a character who was played by May Calamawy in 2022’s Moon Knight series. Layla El-Faouly will first appear in July 2022’s Moon Knight #25 before playing a prominent role in a new miniseries that also begins in July 2022, Moon Knight: City of the Dead.
Moon Knight #25 comes from writer Jed MacKay (Avengers, Doctor Strange) and artists Alessandro Cappuccio, Alessandro Vitti and Partha Pratim. The synopsis for the issue reads, “MOON KNIGHT’S PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE, LEADING INTO HIS FIRST EVENT SERIES! The past comes back to bedevil Moon Knight as he pursues his latest enemy, someone once familiar and new. From grim New York nights to the blazing sun of Alexandria days, Moon Knight hunts for answers among the graves of Hart Island while haunted by the last mission of the Karnak Cowboys, a mercenary crew counting among its members Marc Spector, Jean-Paul Duchamp, Robert Plesko…and Layla El-Faouly. PLUS: A CLASSIC MOON KNIGHT STORY FROM THE PAST BY DOUG MOENCH AND BILL SIENKIEWICZ!”
Moon Knight: City of the Dead is a five-issue limited series from writer David Pepose and artist Marcelo Ferreira. “When a young runaway is attacked by a gang of death cultists, he is left barely alive outside the Midnight Mission,” Marvel teased. “But Marc Spector made a vow long ago to defend the travelers of the night…and as long as a spark of life remains, his mission isn’t over yet. Follow Moon Knight as the Fist of Khonshu journeys far beyond the land of the living – and battles across the mind-bending underworld known as the City of the Dead!”
Moon Knight #25 Features a Younger Marc and Layla
“Bringing Layla El-Faouly into our story was exciting,” MacKay previously said. “Adding an already beloved character into the universe of the comics is a really interesting opportunity, and being able to show the ‘before’ to David and Marcelo’s ‘after’ was a wonderful bit of synchronicity. It was an idea that we both came to independently, and the way our stories were able to dovetail is something that I’m looking forward to people experiencing. While the Scarlet Scarab will indeed be turning up in MOON KNIGHT: CITY OF THE DEAD, in MOON KNIGHT #25 we’re seeing a much younger Layla and a much younger Marc Spector as they embark on a mission as members of the crack mercenary team, the Karnak Cowboys.”
Moon Knight #25 features cover art by Steve McNiven and releases on July 12, 2023. Moon Knight: City of the Dead #1, which features cover art by Rod Reis, follows on July 19, 2023.
Source: Marvel