ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) (02/20/86)
> Tina Todd > Hello, all! This is but the second time I've posted, so bear with me. > First, I agree with what seems to me to be the general concensus about > the new Daredevil. Classic! Pity all comics weren't like that. That > last page, with Matt and Karen...Like I said, classic. Last night in a fit of insanity I re-read DDs 227, 228, 229, 230, and 231 in rapid succession. The blur of imagery kept me awake for quite a while longer. I think this easily outranks even the "Phoenix" series in X-Men (which I feel is a "classic"). Reading them one issue at a time over the past months I got the feeling that they were too dark, too graphically violent (I HATE the panel where Kingpin's fist comes down on Matt's vision, and where the nurse chokes Nick to death with Urich on the phone listening to the sounds). Reading them in series I am overwhelmed by the progression of events and the radical restructuring of Matt Murdock's life and the lives of those around him. Frank Miller is doing unbelievable things for the comics genre right before my very eyes. I am really looking forward to the Dark Knight series. But does anyone have any idea where this series is going?? Miller makes me feel like I'm falling off a cliff sometimes. Here we've got the return of Karen Page, who may or may not become DD's new/old love interest (I'm anticipating Elektra, shortly); Matt's mother has jumped into the picture; he's still got all these financial and professional woes the Kingpin has dumped on him; Foggy's moving up in the world, with Glori no less. Matt's gone through an amazing amount of women in the last oh, thirty issues (I really miss Natasha. She suited him well) and an amazing amount of catastrophe. I don't have any idea what's going to happen next and I CAN'T STAND IT MUCH LONGER!! Arrrrrggggghhhhhh. Moriarty should write a Stupid People's Court for zombies like me. I'm not a Marvel zombie; I'm a cliffhanger zombie, perpetually dangling by my fingernails on the sheer face of a weekly pulp fix. Ellen -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?" "I read it in a book," said Alice. - - - - - - - - - - - - -
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (02/23/86)
In article <2537@reed.UUCP> ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) writes: >Last night in a fit of insanity I re-read DDs 227, 228, 229, >230, and 231 in rapid succession. The blur of imagery kept me >awake for quite a while longer. I think this easily outranks >even the "Phoenix" series in X-Men (which I feel is a >"classic"). Agreed on both points. This is much better than Miller's earlier work on DD, too -- I feel that he lost his focus in the later DD comics he did. >Reading them one issue at a time over the past >months I got the feeling that they were too dark, too >graphically violent (I HATE the panel where Kingpin's fist comes >down on Matt's vision, and where the nurse chokes Nick to death >with Urich on the phone listening to the sounds). Funny -- I had the same reaction to the nurse jumping the cop in #231, when Urich finds his wife being choked in the bathroom. When Matt shows up, I was really in the mood to see him, ahem, "waste 'er ass". >But does anyone have any idea where this series is going?? Only that Miller seems to be exploring a breakdown -- and possible dispensation -- of a dual identity. Matt was really going nuts before the destruction of his penthouse, trying to reconcile his two lives. The "Born Again" premise of this series, and the important fact that Matt is NOT wearing the DD suit, makes me wonder if Matt has gotten over the schizoid aspects of his dual nature, and is fighting the Kingpin as Matt Murdock -- which is, after all, who he is. >Arrrrrggggghhhhhh. Moriarty should write a Stupid People's >Court for zombies like me. I'm not a Marvel zombie; I'm a >cliffhanger zombie, perpetually dangling by my fingernails on >the sheer face of a weekly pulp fix. If I did, I'd have to be sitting in the defendant's box with you (as would most of net.comics, I'll bet...) "But in calling Moriarty a criminal you are uttering libel in the eyes of the law, and there lies the glory and the wonder of it. The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every devilry, the controlling brain of the underworld.... That's the man." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>