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Scarlet Scarab comes to comics in Moon Knight: City Of The Dead
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
Scarlet Scarab on City Of The Dead’s cover, by Davi Go.
AFTER APPEARING IN last year’s Moon Knight TV show, Layla El-Faouly makes her comic book debut in this month’s Moon Knight 25, before assuming her role as the latest Scarlet Scarab in writer David Pepose and artist Marcelo Ferreira’s new miniseries Moon Knight: City Of The Dead.
“Moon Knight 25 tees up the events of City Of The Dead nicely,” says Pepose, who came up with the idea of featuring Layla at the same time as Moon Knight scribe Jed MacKay, before editor Tom Brevoort encouraged them to dovetail their stories together. “Jed and I went back and forth about elements of each other’s stories, and I think they really strengthen one another in a profound way.”