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DAREDEVIL: END OF DAYS #8 SPOILERS!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I took a several year hiatus from comics in general and just recently got back into reading this summer. So I missed the entire Diggle run of DD and most of the Waid run, but i am buying back issues of volume 3 here and there. I made my weekly run to my LCS this Wednesday. The owner said that he had a TPB of End of Days. I knew the premise of the story, but intentionally don't read reviews or look at previews because I don't like spoilers. I casually flipped through the pages and noticed Janson's and Sienkiewicz's names on the cover and decided to give it a try. So here is my belated review of the mini series.

The short version: It wasn't worth the $26 I paid for the TPB. I actually felt ripped off.

The longer version: There were things i liked and things I didn't like.

What I liked: Some of Janson's art. It looked like some of the pages were really rushed, but others looked really great. The Sienkiewicz painted panels were terrific. I also liked the trip down memory lane with the different DD villains and the sort of "where are they now" storytelling. To a lesser extent, the continuation of DD as a superhero. The entire story was about the death of DD, so to see someone take up the mantle was kind of fun (but has been overused in comics).

What I didn't like: Pretty much everything else. I read JC's backstory about Mapone/Bullseye backstory. At least the editor had enough sense to cut that part of the story. When I read who Mapone was, my immediate thought was "That's it?" and how did Bullseye even know who Mapone was? It's not like Matt and Natasha sent him a Christmas card every year. It's doubtful that knowing Matt had a kid would have been enough to cause a psycho like Poindexter to off himself. Another point of JC's review was how the chronology of Matt's children in relation of Timmy just doesn't make sense. The plot was rudderless. Maybe this was due to the editorial change in Mapone, but it seemed to me like the story started out painted into a corner and there was no clear idea who or what "Mapone" was until the first several issues were on the newsstand.

I know that I'm rambling, but the series really let me down. Maybe my expectations were too high. I was hoping for a Dark Knight Returns type of story and got something akin to the script from a soap opera.
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Dragonbat
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="james castle"]
Sparko wrote:


Speaking of which: I read an interview where Mack points out that "Mapone" is a city in Europe somewhere. He says that that's where Matt and Natasha conceived Mapone and goes on to say "it's common for people to be named after the city that they were conceived in". Wait. What? Are they? I guess that explains all the New Yorks, Bogotas and Torontos running around. Ridiculous.


I can name you one famous one (just because in 5th grade, we did a 'unit' on biography and a title about her showed up on a recommended reading list): Florence Nightingale. Was named after Florence, Italy, where she was born. (Not sure about conception.) After she became famous for her innovations in nursing, many more girls were named after her. She had a sister Frances Parthenope, named for the city of her birth, Parthenopolis.

However, the reason that detail stood out in my mind for over 30 years is because it's about the ONLY time I'd heard of anything like it.
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Sparko
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reread the series last night. The 2nd reading proved to be better than the first for me, but I'm still bothered by why Bullseye offed himself.
I remember though when Matt was talking to Timmy through "channeling" or whatever that was in issue 8 right as Punisher comes into the gym, Matt mentions how he has to take care of Bullseye. Could that conversation have been a flashback of sorts and could it have meant that the spirit of Matt was influential in getting Bullseye to hit the mark one last time? If that's what that means, then I can somewhat be satisfied by the whole thing. Sure "Mapone" still irks me, but Bullseye killing himself was maybe what bothered me most.
Now... Let's got to issue 4 right after Ben talks to the hooker dressed as Elektra. The very next page after her last comment is a panel that opens with a news story and the headline is... "The Ghost of Daredevil". Now in story they're refering to DD 2, Timmy, but maybe Bendis/Mack wanted us to think the ghost of Matt did it.

Maybe.

This is what I get after a 2nd reading.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So... Maybe Matt just says "Mapone" as his last word, not to piss off Bullseye, but maybe just because he knows he will never "see" her again. At that moment he felt guilt to not be around longer in her life.
And now then, why does Bullseye write "Mapone" in his own blood? Maybe The Ghost of Daredevil did it or made him do it.
When I look at that news headline, those words, The Ghost of Daredevil could have been different. It could have said "Daredevil is Back", or anything else, but no, it says The Ghost of Daredevil. Thinking about it more, it seems deliberate.
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