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[Kuljit Mithra]

DAREDEVIL #9 by Waid, Samnee and Wilson ships today, and here's the preview!

http://www.manwithoutfear.com/gallery/Daredevil-V4-009

Please use this thread for all discussion on the issue.
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[Francesco]

I really wish Waid would stop with the hamfisted "before DD was depressing, but now he's trying to be happy" and with the sit-comish dialogue between he, Foggy and the new love interest (I can't even remember what her name is and I don't even try)

The concept of the purple kids is interesting, though, so I vote 3.

[Dimetre]

I think this could be my favourite issue of Volume 4. (The only other candidate is #4.)

I enjoyed (for the most part) the easy repartee between Matt, Foggy and Kirsten. I loved how Daredevil took down the cruiser. But I adored the effect the purple children had on him. Everything he has been avoiding dealing with came rushing at him all at once. I really hope this is a lasting effect. It was beautifully depicted by Waid and Samnee.

What I didn't like -- and I know I complain about this a lot -- is the treatment of Foggy. At least he appeared in the book this month, but jeez it makes me uncomfortable. I absolutely hated the way Kirsten talked to him. "Next time invest in cheek pads -- or we are not letting you out in public anymore, Mr 'faked his death so he could get cancer treatments without Daredevil's enemies seeking him out.'" Excuse me? This man is fighting a fatal disease. Could you cut him some slack?

I'm assuming cancer hits close to home for a lot of people on this message board. It hits close to home for me. This is the second time in Volume 4 that Kirsten has scolded Foggy for daring to go out in society. She is essentially asking a very ill man to be happy with captivity. I enjoyed Kirsten in Volume 3, but I have big problems with her in Volume 4.

Fortunately those are only two panels in what is a very strong issue.

[Francesco]

When Brubaker had Milla slowly losing her sanity I really felt the tension and the tragedy of it.

Waid has been trying hard to deliver something similar regarding Foggy's cancer, but I'm not getting the same feeling. Surely the fact that he had foggy act as comic relief goof-off who gets picked on by the newest girlfriend (even though he's a long time friend of Matt) isn't helping in this direction.

Also, Matt showing Foggy a laundry ticket believing it's something else? Are we serious? Bah. I wish they had avoided those three pages entirely. They made me cringe.

[Dimetre]

[LightningandIce]

I gave this one a four. I thought it was great. The only thing that really bothered me was like other people are saying, the treatment of Foggy, but even that is only a minor issue for me. Other than that, Matt's behavior is a huge improvement over the narcissism in the last issue, although I have to admit, even that may be justified in retrospect. I have felt that Matt hasn't been acting himself lately, and until now, I chocked it up to bad writing. The end of this issue has me feeling a little differently. Maybe Waid is playing into something regarding Matt's problems.

As far as the purple children are concerned, they are turning out great. They really do come off as mentally disturbed, acting immorally because they don't know any better. It brings up some moral dilemmas on just how DD is going to deal with them. I thought the action sequence here was cool, although it took me a while to figure out just what exactly Daredevil had done to stop the car. He says afterward, "I wasn't sure that would work." I'm honestly not sure it would; I think that it would have ripped the rung off of the ladder or, more likely, snapped the cable. It was still a creative situation, though.

Even though we're only two issues in, I like where this story arc is going. So far it has been the best one since I started reading DD again about a year ago.