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Mike Murdock Golden Age
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:35 am Post subject: DD Book Club - Flying Blind |
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This is a story I've never read before, so I'm curious to see what it's like. As of right now, I know nothing about it. It's by Scott Lobdell who is most known for writing X-Books. As Daredevil Vol. 1 was winding down we had Joe Kelly write his Mr. Fear epic. This story follows that one.
As a general rule, I don't use captions on the cover to indicate the title of a story but I don't see any indication the story is called anything other than Flying Blind Part 1 and I thought I would give each one a bit more unique of a title.
Daredevil Vol. 1 #376 - Flying Blind Part 1: Stranger in a Strange Land
Quote: | Daredevil is all alone in a foreign country. With no recollection of his life as Matt Murdock, the Man Without Fear has no support and no ties to his true identity. An existential crisis at its finest. Plus, who is Laurent Levasseur? |
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2018 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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"Flying Blind" is regarded these days as a low-point in Daredevil's history. This story came towards the end of Volume 1, with this issue hitting the racks in June of 1998. The series' sales numbers were abysmal, and cancellation seemed imminent. If Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti hadn't struck the deal that allowed them to form the Marvel Knights imprint and relaunch Daredevil, it's likely that this would have been the character's last whimper into nothingness. But, even though "Flying Blind" attracted no one's attention, is the story really such a failure?
The cover does nothing for me. It plays towards the series' ninja history. The logo in the upper-left corner replaces Daredevil's classic face with some guy in a weird cowl, and that guy's face is the only one visible on the cover. It's as if he's the hero of the book. Something is off.
Cully Hamner's art isn't my cup of tea, but he's okay. He kind of reminds me of Scott McDaniel. He avoids minute details, but because of that his art flows very easily from panel to panel. Still, Hamner isn't the type of artist I associate with Daredevil, but he is the type I associate with the late 90s.
The first page is very compelling. A dark-haired man awakens in a hospital bed. Immediately he seems to possess Daredevil-ish traits. He can taste the antiseptic in the air, and the adhesive on his skin hurts him like "a spider's bite." But he not only has dark hair and doesn't look like Matt Murdock; he can see.
As the first pages fly by, we find out that we're in Paris, France. This guy has been mugged, and he's a painter named Laurent LeVasseur. He has war wounds, but he doesn't know how he got them. He instinctively leaps into the fray to stop a gunman from shooting up the hospital, even though he can't remember knowing how to fight. He is debilitated by a car's horn. There is some sort of fighting costume in his closet that he has never seen before.
Writer Scott Lobdell tries to hold back explanations for this mystery as long as he can. There is a page showing businessmen referring to Laurent's doctor, and how she could foil their "big score" if she pieces together all that she saw this week. Because we don't know how the mugging of Laurent went down, we are in the dark, but the man in the background has to be Wilson Fisk. The Kingpin is behind all this somehow.
About two-thirds of the way through the issue, Lobdell explains everything through the a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent's dialogue. The spy agency needed someone to go deep undercover to "protect extremely delicate international interests." I don't know if Matt volunteered, but this agent says that he, at any rate, came through. Matt's entire brain was reprogrammed with a completely separate identity. It's unclear whether Matt was totally aware of what he was getting into, but he's going to get his life back when this is all over. This agent is the only person on the planet who is aware that Matt is working undercover, but apparently this agent doesn't know to look both ways before crossing the street. A big truck blows a tire and smashes into him.
I would much rather the bulk of this explanation had been held back. The two pages with this agent explain pretty much everything, and rob the issue of a lot of intrigue. Perhaps Lobdell felt he had to reassure the reader that Matt Murdock was in the story, and perhaps there was pressure from on high to do so. Still, I think it would have helped the story greatly if the information spilled on these two pages was revealed more gradually throughout the arc.
Still, I like the premise. This is very much a stand-alone story which would have felt more at home in a series like Dark Nights than the main title. While the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent proved woefully incompetent, the other characters are strong. The flirtation between Claudia and Laurent was fun, and it was cool that the doctor managed to retain her dignity while engaging in the flirting. I enjoyed the way Paris was depicted, but I may be biased since it's one of my favourite cities on the planet. I'm also looking forward to seeing where Fisk fits into all this. I've read this before, but I've obviously forgotten a lot of it.
I enjoyed this issue. I have to drop the grade down because of the agent getting run over by the truck, along with the sudden reveal of information. I also didn't like the hamfisted way the term "man without fear" was shoved onto the second-last page. I'd like to think modern comics have adopted more subtlety over the last twenty years. Still, I appreciate this issue's inventive premise, and I think more readers should give this story a chance. It's in the Marvel Epic Collection entitled Widow's Kiss, which collects a lot of the Joe Kelly run as well. That's worth the buy for any Daredevil fan.
I give this issue a three out of five. |
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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^ I wrote my review before reading yours. We are surprisingly in a lot of agreement on this.
The story starts with a stranger waking up after being mugged. I assume we're to guess this is Matt and it might very well be. He seems to have strong supersenses. The only weird thing is the lights being bright. There's a lot of ambiguity with how he's seeing overall. Matt's lost his memory and has had to react to his powers before, but I don't think brightness is something he's claimed. Infared might have been back when Doctor Doom was in his body, but it still feels a bit off. Still, the evidence suggests he is blind. He's also seemingly speaking French (they don't do the translation brackets, though). Matt does speak some French, although I don't know if it's very good French.
Honestly, I was digging the mystery. I wish they didn't reveal it until next issue. Apparently, it is Matt but he's undercover with SHIELD, which required getting fake memories. That being said, the agent getting killed (and making it clear no one else knows the full extent of what's going on) is a nice added story twist. That being said, he seems to die, we cut to another scene, and then they have a cliffhanger of him actually dying. Kind of cut the sting out.
The story has the Hand and the Kingpin. I wonder if it's a bit overcooked. I also feel like a fresh villain might not have been a bad idea all things considered, but I think it had been awhile since either showed up at this point. This issue has a "Man Without Fear" reference that made me cringe. The writing is overall good, but that was terrible.
Four Stars. I'm interested where this will go. It feels like a good change of pace. But I do wish we kept the mystery a bit longer. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 9:15 am Post subject: |
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Daredevil Vol. 1 #377 - Flying Blind Part 2: All-Out Chaos in the Streets of France
Quote: | Undercover agent Laurent Levasseur does not know that in his real identity he is both blind lawyer Matt Murdock and the costumed adventurer known as Daredevil and wonders why he has a compulsion to roam the streets of France wearing tights and fighting bad guys; Foggy begins to look for the missing Matt; Kingpin sets his sights on Laurent. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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While I would have preferred if the mystery behind Laurent LaVasseur's heightened senses and amnesia had been kept mysterious, this story is what it is, and I have to accept that. With that in mind, this issue is pretty darn good.
First, Scott Lobdell seems well-schooled in how Daredevil works. His descriptions of what Laurent can detect with his senses are expertly done, although I don't know if Matt has ever used his sense of taste to tell the difference between wood and metal. Seriously, I don't think Matt's heightened sense of taste has ever saved the day. We really need a story in which Daredevil's tastebuds save the day.
I loved Cully Hamner's large panel showing Laurent and Claudia bouncing between buildings and off the top of a truck, then safely onto a sidewalk. Both Lobdell and Hamner deserve credit for the strong pacing and flow of this issue.
As we're reviewing this, Charles Soule's arc in which Daredevil and the Ordo Draconum fight the Hand -- along with the Beast of the Hand -- in New York just wrapped up. One of my problems with that story is that I never felt that the Hand were a threat to anyone. They seemed ridiculously easy to beat up. In this twenty-year-old story, the Hand seem just as ineffective -- at first. One ninja gets the drop on Laurent by hiding under the water in a fountain, and I bought it. Because of this, he fails to keep Claudia safe, and the story can progress. Lobdell did a nice job balancing how formidable Daredevil is with the unconventional measures his foes must resort to defeat him.
Is Moxy Cambridge Ox? He has to be. That's Ox's sweater, and he's as big as the Ox. I forgot he reformed. It's almost sad to read this, because the next time we would see him in the pages of Daredevil is when Ed Brubaker was writing, and he was clearly back to his criminal ways. It's sad when rehabilitation doesn't stick.
I've always wondered why different creative teams don't stick with Josie's being the criminal hangout. I realize that the police would eventually find a way to shut these establishments down, and the clientele would have to find a new place, but Frank Miller did such a great job of establishing Josie's in Daredevil's world. Here, Lobdell and Hamner have Foggy walk into someplace called Lucille to confront the lowlifes. I remember David Mack and Joe Quesada had Matt violentlly interrogate some thugs in a place called Ennis's. Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev had Matt do the same in a place called Fleming's. I'd rather we stick with Josie's. Notice that the show uses Josie's, even though it doesn't seem to be a criminal hangout.
Stilt-Man appears in this issue, and for a while he's treated like a legitimate threat. His limbs land against the ground and walls with concussive force. He's knocking over cars. Then he's defeated in a sadly lame way. For some reason Stilt-Man failed to notice the Eiffel Tower, and smashed himself against it. That's just dumb. Between Agent Harlan not looking both ways across the street and Stilt-Man doing this, Lobdell seems to have a thing about characters doing themselves in through sheer negligence.
As for Laurent being able to see his reflection in the mirror, I don't know what to think. Perhaps S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reprogramming affected the connection between Matt's brain and his eyes? Or perhaps the intermingling of his hyper-senses make Laurent think he's seeing things with his eyes? It's somewhat unclear so far, but I think the reader is intended to feel confused and unsettled. Perhaps that's why a lot of fans didn't like "Flying Blind."
But Lobdell has done a nice job establishing Laurent's bewilderment about his circumstances, and has added tension by placing the Kingpin on top of it all. I'm looking forward to the next issue. I give this a four out of five, even if the way Stilt-Man lost was dumb. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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The first third of the issue is taken up with one long fight scene. I think it looked cool but didn't really drive the plot. The double page splash near the beginning is really nice. The darkness of the opening pages contrasts with the bright red of the radar sense. This might be a somewhat unique way of demonstrating it. Christie Scheele has been Daredevil's colorist forever at this point and does a nice job here.
There's a touching moment with Foggy and a man named Moxy Cambridge. I like the human aspect of Matt Murdock looking out for the little guy. It's easy to lose track of that and I'm glad Lobdell didn't. The senses of our protagonist continue to be a weird debate, which is why I didn't like that they revealed it's Matt last issue. Is it possible Stilt-Man is an overrated villain? He always seems to be the go-to nonsense character. That being said, having him run into the Eiffel Tower is a good sight gag.
Three and a Half Stars. From my perspective, I didn't think I learned much. From the character's perspective, it felt more like moving the pieces in place, but I'm not sure any of them learned much either. There were some good fight scenes, though. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Daredevil Vol. 1 #378 - Flying Blind Part 3: Under the Gun
Quote: | Foggy and SHIELD begin to realize what has happened to Matt Murdock and exactly how much trouble he is in; Matt as Laurent finds himself facing off against Kingpin's goons. |
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:23 pm Post subject: |
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First, I have to apologize for not noticing that the artist in the previous issue wasn't Cully Hamner. Tom Morgan did such a good job aping Hamner's style that I didn't notice a change at all. It's kind of weird that Hamner didn't draw all four issues, or that Morgan didn't do all four. I assume the intention was to have a single artist for all four, but something came up.
As it turns out, our webmaster interviewed Hamner 18 years ago.
Quote: | Mithra: At first the Flying Blind arc was solicited as 4 issues, then changed to 3, then back to 4. Was there any reason for this? It was planned that you would do all the parts of the story, but in the end, Tom Morgan did the middle 2 issues. Was there a problem keeping up with the deadlines for you? I know in past interviews you've said your style of art takes longer to do.
Hamner: I did have a real problem keeping up, because the project was already behind schedule when I was brought aboard (although I didn't know it yet). Combine that with the fact that I wasn't that enamored of the story to begin with, and you get something that wasn't a whole lot of fun to draw. Now, before anybody gets upset, I don't mean any disrespect towards Scott. He's a good writer, and I've enjoyed a lot of his work, but I felt this particular story was not one of his good ones. I could go on for an hour about what didn't make sense to me about this story, but it's a moot point now. So, I won't.
Also, in the middle of the job, I got a new editor. Jaye was gone (this was in the midst of all the layoffs at Marvel), and Tim Tuohy came aboard. I liked Tim immediately, and we got along real well, but he'll be the first to tell you that the "musical artists" bit on that arc was not my fault. I had to wait for plots quite a bit, as they were being written and rewritten. We all did what we could, but it just wasn't enough. |
I guess I don't know much about art, because I never would have guessed Hamner's art takes longer to do. It doesn't look that detailed, so I would have thought he'd be able to stick to a monthly schedule. You can find the interview here: http://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-interviews/Hamner
Anyway, this issue didn't grab me to the degree that the first two did. The first scene with Foggy and Agent Senyaka regurgitates a lot of what we, the reader, already know. Later on, Senyaka tells us that Agent Harlan took it upon himself to send Daredevil in deep undercover because his own brother was murdered, and that the Kingpin is going to bid on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s list of undercover operatives. I think that was the only new information I got this issue.
Laurent's fight with a villain called Le Concierge is on the cover, meaning Marvel thought that was a selling feature. This villain is stupid for a few reasons. First, Le Concierge is a stupid name for a villain. Are you at all threatened by the people who work behind counters at hotels? Secondly, why didn't they just have Daredevil fight Batroc? Batroc is French, and Le Concierge already looks like him and fights like him. Lastly, we didn't even see Le Concierge beat Laurent up, but he captures him and takes him to the Kingpin's lair, and it seems like Laurent is unconscious. Did Laurent impale himself on Le Concierge's blade to save a woman we never met before? We'll just have to assume, and that's lame. One last thing, there is a large panel of Le Concierge taking up the bottom half of a page getting ready to kick Laurent in the face, and the way his leg is bending could not make me more uncomfortable. I know unrealistic body movement was all the rage in 90s comics, but this was pretty bad.
There were neat moments in this issue, but they were pretty isolated. I liked when Laurent activated Stilt-Man's hydraulic legs to get away. I liked when Synapse laughed at Claudia's burn on the Kingpin, and how he ended up getting clobbered for it.
But this issue feels like a waste. It doesn't feel like anything important happened. This is an obvious set-up for the final issue, and it was important to have Laurent make it to the Kingpin's lair unconscious, and they couldn't even do that right. And really, why not use Batroc?
One last nitpick: Foggy went to Columbia University, not NYU.
One more time: Why not Batroc?!?
I give this a two out of five. |
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Foggy nearly walks off the side of a Helicarrier and then yells are the person who saves his life for babysitting him. Someone want to explain that to me?
Daredevil's scenes are mostly fight scenes. It feels all the scenes seem to come down to "timing this perfectly." However, each time he succeeds, it's fun. I liked the Stilt-Man one, particularly since it can add to the confusion by causing them to debate whether or not Stilt-Man is the one responsible for the sudden kick.
This issue revealed a lot of the mystery, which was probably necessary at this stage. The plot is pretty standard - pretty much just the plot of the first Mission Impossible movie, but it's a flexible plot - particularly when the Kingpin is involved. Other than that, it felt like a lot of playing for time.
I thought the ending had some good cliffhangers for next time. They left us with the idea that Matt's faking his unconsciousness only to reveal that he really is beaten down. We immediately followed that up with the burning question - can Matt see? And, if so, how?
Three and a Half Stars. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Daredevil Vol. 1 #379 - Flying Blind Part 4: Face to Face with the Truth
Quote: | Concluding the four-issue stand-alone story-arc! With all the players in place, Daredevil (who doesn't know he's DD) must stop the Kingpin's plan to distribute the device that rewired his brain! Will Foggy Nelson be able to convince "Laurent" that he's really Matt Murdock, or will Mattstay on as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.?! |
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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So I was confused by the way the previous issue ended. I think anybody would have been. I have to give Scott Lobdell credit, he had me fooled, and he even took a few pages before the big reveal that Laurent had pulled the old switcheroo.
As annoyed as I was by #378, I think this issue was a strong ending to the arc. Fisk was up to form, proving both a physical and tactical threat, I like that he started to recognize Matt in Laurent before Synapse did his thing.
I'm not sure I accept that Synapse's mind-rewiring would have returned Matt to his old self. I think it would be within Synapse's abilities to rewrite someone's brain patterns multiple ways. I understand we needed Matt to come back, but this wasn't the most credible way.
However, it was a relief to have Daredevil back. As old a trick as turning out the lights is, it felt very good when he did that.
The weirdest part of the issue for me was that swipe at DC. Claudia shouts at Laurent that he's a dead man, and Laurent, with a big grin, cracks back, "I doubt it! He's that pasty-faced guy in the red tights, right? Never read him." That was so out of left field. I don't know if Lobdell had a bad experience working at DC. Looking over his bio on Wikipedia, it doesn't look like he had done any work at DC by this point, so it looks like the jab at Deadman was just playful mud-slinging.
I liked how the mind-rewrite didn't eliminate Matt's eyesight right away. I thought that was well handled. Matt wouldn't know what to do with eyesight, and it would prove a distraction.
I wish we were given a better explanation as to how a man Wilson Fisk's size slipped through everyone's fingers. It shouldn't be possible for Fisk to elude Matt. Yes, he was stunned by the lights coming back on, but that would have meant everyone else should have been able to see Fisk. That made no sense to me.
However, the ending with Foggy couldn't have been better. Matt had never seen his best friend before. I liked that it was Foggy and not Karen.
Now that we've read the entire story, I don't really understand why this was such a low-point for the character. (Personally, I don't think it gets much worse than Chichester's run with Jack Batlin.) I suppose some people want Matt to be Matt and Daredevil to have horns. If you actually read the story, it's pretty good. I think Lobdell could have withheld some information from us readers longer than he did so we could have been left wondering longer, but this was an interesting idea, and the parts where we're in Laurent's headspace were very well handled. I give both this issue and the story as a whole a 3.5 out of 5. (If we had gotten Batroc instead of Le Concierge, it would have gotten a four.) |
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I spent a good ten minutes confused when this issue started when our hero says he's posing as Le Concierge. That's a new reveal, right? If so, it's actually frustrating to use flashback panels to tell it because I often skip those if I remember the story. It also feels we were cheated of useful information by showing the switch unless I missed something. I guess it explained how he got out of the cliffhanger, but it also didn't feel like it added much as he quickly has to change back to his old costume. To do all this for a "I guess you're wondering how I ended up here" opening/flashback didn't really seem to help.
I didn't find the dialogue witty. The resolution felt a little weak. The whole sight thing wasn't really explained, so I'm not sure the ending was earned. The idea of Matt seeing his friend for the first time is a wonderful one. Mark Waid would use it effectively later. But I just felt too distracted by the whole sight thing to truly appreciate it. Overall, I felt like this premise was a bit wasted.
Three and a Half Stars. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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I have to bump this thread because I found something interesting. I was previously reading these issues in the Epic Collection, but I finally got a tangible copy of the original floppy. These issues had a foldout page at the beginning that functioned like the previously page in modern comics. This issue, however, completely spoils all surprises in this story. This is in the foldout for the very first part of the story where it explains who the characters are:
Quote: | Laurent Levasseur/Matt Murdock
Accepting an assignment from SHIELD, Matt Murdock has become Laurent Levasseur. A SHIELD operative from France. But Matt doesn't even know/remember this due to the necessary rewriting of his memories for this mission. A procedure which has some interesting side-effects. |
I complained that Scott Lobdell wasn't doing enough with the surprise. I guess now I know why.
The other weird thing is the letters page keeps playing up the relaunch because of Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti. Kevin Smith almost seems like an afterthought. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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