echoes and devils
Daredevil was a third-rate hero before Frank Miller turned him around in the 80's, and the imitators never brought him out of that rut. However, the last few years have seen some really great work on this title.
David Mack writes & draws beautiful stories in slowly building, repeating and collaged paintings and in childlike scribbles. He created the lovely Echo:
introduced in Volume 2: Parts of a Hole. There's a love story in it, and a revenge story, but it's not truly either. Plus, we glimpse a fascinating slice of Kingpin's mind, showing the hard-scrabbling early Fisk. There's a fun cameo by Wolverine in Volume 8: Echo — Vision Quest, the continuation of this story.
Volume 3: Wake Up is penned by Brian Michael Bendis with Mack's art. This one's a mystery involving a little boy who loves comics and will draw, but won't talk. A little artsy for some tastes, but unusual & beautiful. To tell you more would spoil it.
The real, true reason I started buying Daredevil is Alex Maleev's art. It draws the readers right in so Bendis can work 'em over with his stunning plots. It's easy to discern the writer's bent from his earlier series — lots of crime & detective tones — and he bends Daredevil just a touch to work that vein with him. This take fits the roots of the character while revealing new sides to him.
Volume 7: Hardcore, though fairly deep into the story, typifies the Bendis goodness. I like it because a) Typhoid Mary cameos, and if you want awesomely fucked-up psychotic in a woman, she's it:
Matt always had the least girly & annoying love interests. Maya, Mary, Natasha, Elektra, and Milla in about that order. Sacrilege, I know, but I never read anything with Karen, so she's not on my list.
And b) Matt finally snaps and gives Bullseye what he deserves. No more killing his girlfriends, you evil bastard.
Oh, plus fallout from the secret-identity revelation continues, and Matt makes more & more radical decisions.
The series is gold all the way through, but the "Decalouge" arc (no trade yet) blew me away. The framework is a support group for those affected by Daredevil. Some of them hate him, some of them defend him, but nobody's cut and dry. The meaning of the interaction is left up in the air, and the man himself stays in the background until the end. What an end it is! Truly great.
David Mack writes & draws beautiful stories in slowly building, repeating and collaged paintings and in childlike scribbles. He created the lovely Echo:
introduced in Volume 2: Parts of a Hole. There's a love story in it, and a revenge story, but it's not truly either. Plus, we glimpse a fascinating slice of Kingpin's mind, showing the hard-scrabbling early Fisk. There's a fun cameo by Wolverine in Volume 8: Echo — Vision Quest, the continuation of this story.
Volume 3: Wake Up is penned by Brian Michael Bendis with Mack's art. This one's a mystery involving a little boy who loves comics and will draw, but won't talk. A little artsy for some tastes, but unusual & beautiful. To tell you more would spoil it.
The real, true reason I started buying Daredevil is Alex Maleev's art. It draws the readers right in so Bendis can work 'em over with his stunning plots. It's easy to discern the writer's bent from his earlier series — lots of crime & detective tones — and he bends Daredevil just a touch to work that vein with him. This take fits the roots of the character while revealing new sides to him.
Volume 7: Hardcore, though fairly deep into the story, typifies the Bendis goodness. I like it because a) Typhoid Mary cameos, and if you want awesomely fucked-up psychotic in a woman, she's it:
Matt always had the least girly & annoying love interests. Maya, Mary, Natasha, Elektra, and Milla in about that order. Sacrilege, I know, but I never read anything with Karen, so she's not on my list.
And b) Matt finally snaps and gives Bullseye what he deserves. No more killing his girlfriends, you evil bastard.
Oh, plus fallout from the secret-identity revelation continues, and Matt makes more & more radical decisions.
The series is gold all the way through, but the "Decalouge" arc (no trade yet) blew me away. The framework is a support group for those affected by Daredevil. Some of them hate him, some of them defend him, but nobody's cut and dry. The meaning of the interaction is left up in the air, and the man himself stays in the background until the end. What an end it is! Truly great.
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