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buzzylittleb threw a copy at my head (I get introduced to the best stuff like that). Okay, Matt Murdock was blinded as a child by some freaky chemicals that enhanced all his other senses. Now he's a lawyer who fights crime!
It started with Stan Lee, of course. The art in the first four issues was done by Joe Orlando, who got a mention in Watchmen. Basically it's really cute and funny. In 2001 Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale did their own version of this origin story in Daredevil:Yellow. If the art looks familiar, that's because it is.
Volume 1 of Daredevil is... well it's just not as interesting as volume 2. He hangs out with the Black Widow a bunch, which is cool, and at one point he teams up with Deadpool. Frank Miller happens. We don't like to talk about that.
Volume two is way better, especially the Bendis/Maleev run, which starts properly with Underboss. The thing about Daredevil is that he doesn't just fight supervillains in costumes, his biggest problem is the mob. Underboss is a really good gangster story, where a bunch of nobodies decide they're going to take out the Kingpin. Again, if Alex Maleev's art seems familiar, that's because it is.
God I love his art.
Those aren't even the covers. This is a cover.
Next, the inevitable happens. So many people know Daredevil's real identity that it had to come out eventually. Matt, being a lawyer, decides that the best thing to do is sue the hell out of everyone. If he admits to being Daredevil he's guilty of obstruction of Justice in almost every case he's ever been involved in.
In Hardcore, Daredevil snaps and declares himself Kingpin of Hell's kitchen.
King of Hell's Kitchen takes place a year later. Basically, everyone realises Matt has gone crazy. Yes, it took them a year. Then he fights a hundred Yakuza. At once. Can you tell I love this one?
The Universe catches up on the year where Matt was Kingpin. He manages to piss off Spiderman, Dr. Strange, Luke Cage, Reed Richards (all at once), Captain America, the Punisher and Nick Fury.
Decalogue starts out as a bunch of strangers telling each other stories about Daredevil. But then the stories all seem to be connected and it gets more and more tense and claustrophobic and it eventually becomes pretty much a straight horror. It's seriously the most awesome thing ever.
The Bendis run ends with the Murdock Papers, in which the Kingpin cuts a deal with the FBI by offering up proof of Daredevil's identity.
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Clearly, I should throw more things at your head.
*starts giggling again*
Miller was kind of good before he went all whoreswhoreswhores.
I never threw Elektra:Assassin at you, did I? Okay, one it is shiny, two there is bill sinkiewicz art, three there is a cover with love hearts, four there is Chastity McBride - the best SHIELD agent ever, and that's before you get a whole host of cyborgs, ninjas, avatars of the most evil force in the world running for presidents, dubious politics of South America and US involvement there, more pretty, little drawves (help, spelling) and Nick Fury's very big gun. Basicly, it is Miller before he went all whoreswhoreswhores (he might have been a little ninjasninjasninjas, but no whores in it, unless you count the little matter of Elektra's hypnotised love slave -*cracks up*- well, that's what he thinks he is.
I have some random Miller issues out there, and I need to track down the rest of Born Again at some nearly reasonable price once I get my hands on some money. (hey, Frankie, how do I get some money? whoreswhoreswhoreswhores *giggles madly*).
I've got some Ann Nocenti issues, and I have a big desperate girl crush on Ann to start with before you get into all the cloned-girl-bride of some disturbing person, some actual good characerisation, Kingpin getting Matt disbarred and so Matt and Karen start giving legal advice pro bono to battered spouses etc. Ann also did some amazing work on New Mutants (which, okay, you hate the sight of) and she gave a wonderful interview in "comic creators on the x-men" about how working with Rob Liefeld (under orders) was like working with a small boy.
I just looked at the wikipedia plot summary; it sounds like cracky crack with undertones of crack. The blue helper dwarfs. Oh god! But there is some of the pretty here: http://www.wordsandpictures.org/Elektra/maingallery.html and it took me a while but I'd say almost all of it was the original issue one. Like I said, pretty, look! pretty!
I think I am good for niftiness at this current time. Also I have way too much fan media I need to get through. Lord, I still have five episodes of Durham County despite the opener being televisional dynamite (that might be overstating, under the influence of hugh flu, but seriously it rocks in so many wrong ways, why hasn't somebody picked it up in this country, it's disturbed, crime, and creepy, which sums up a lot of our detective drama (the other half is cute, fluffy and kills an entire village a year).
Christ, that was a lot to say.
I saw some W:FC on scans daily, I have an interview for a job coming up, in Canterbury where the comics are.
Hey, why don't we have Rob Liefeld's money? He got there by sending in his fan-art. We should be co-scripting some mash up hack and slash mountie movie.
ETA: this review (http://www.popimage.com/may00/reviews/elektra.html) has the cupid cover (complete with automatic weapons) and how it inspired the "parts of a hole" storyline (hell, also mack's art owes a lot to Sienkiewicz, I think) and I tend to use it as my wallpaper when I don't
scareshare my screen with Billy Tallent. (Uh, not the band)I have figured out why we don't have Rob Liefeld/Stephenie Mayer/insert crappy but rich person here's money. Because we never finish anything. I feel this realisation is an important first step for us.
So true it isn't funny. Lord, I want to write again, even the thing I wrote to get over it stalled (and that's annoying since it is a vividly nasty Joe Dick story). *sigh* I need to get over this and just write. The current thing, On the Inside, is huge but I've ended up with this distance. The snags in the plot are coming loose and I get fragments on my desk, it just needs to a) move forward and b)get my confidence up again. I had a spurt of Stella but it was all a deeply tell section about Stella's background that belongs a bit more defuse until Ray V finds out who her father is (no, not Frankie, I know you think like that. Think a pseudo-Getty with an astronomy habit)
That sounds really good! How much do you think you have left to do for that one? After this I recommend a month of drabbles!
That said, I have "telescope porn" written next to my monitor.
You will love what has happened to Turnbull. Things have gone a bit weird and he hasn't slept all night.
He also like telling me about the high points of his sex life.
We're upping the supernatural/magic-realism/wtf quotient a teeny bit.
(that's an evil grin)