Daredevil Message Board

[Acerbus]

[james castle]

[Dragonbat]

I came to Daredevil in the middle of Waid's run and virtually no knowledge of the history beforehand. I'd read a reprint of Vol 1, #1, caught his cameo on Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and seen another cameo in an 80s Marvel Comics Presents story about a 'fear eater' that was trying to make a meal of various heroes and died of starvation after leaping into the Man Without Fear.

I'm in the 'loved Volume 3 and found Volume 4 to be a mixed bag' camp. The thing is, after falling in love with Waid's DD, I went back and started buying the Vol 1 and 2 back issues on Comixology. Somewhere around the "Murdock Papers" arc, I found out about Marvel Unlimited. Although I came to the title with Waid, once I read what came before I also discovered that I enjoyed Miller (which, frankly shocked me; I was only familiar with his Batman stuff and, while I found DKR ok and enjoyed Batman Y1, after DKSA and ASBAR, I could not understand why so many people praised the man. Then I read Born Again and stamped that particular mystery 'solved'), Bendis, and Brubaker.

I'm mentioning this because even though I fell in love with Daredevil after reading Waid's take, it hasn't stopped me from also loving what came before and I doubt it'll preclude my loving what's likely to follow. I'm not sure I've got a 'definitive' version of Daredevil, but then, I'm not sure I've got a definitive version of any character out there who's been around long enough to have multiple writers.

[Francesco]

[Darkdevil]

Sales figures represent, at best, a shaky indication of a run's 'popularity' or quality. I can think of quite a few titles that may have higher sales numbers that get the same glowing praises and reviews yet from my POV, are rubbish. (Bendis' All-New X-Men comes immediately to mind).

But a simpler reason to discount such numbers is the underlying bias within those numbers. Judging by comments here, some of you, despite being adamant detractors of Waid's work, apparently still buy the book! How many other fans can we include in such a measure, who buy the book out of some sense of loyalty to the character in spite of hating the actual stories within that title? The numbers could be skewed thus any possible correlation to a run's 'popularity' is invalidated.

As for those glowing reviews, I think it's wise to consider the possibility that in order for these news sites to continue to receive exclusive previews, interviews, news and such from the Big Two, some reviews may have a slight swing to them. Not all of them of course, I've read some damning reviews on plenty of Big Two comics but still, something to consider.

Though I myself know of quite a number of fans, some of whom are long-time comic readers, who have either never read DD before or haven't read of DD in quite some time, who were drawn to the book either through those reviews or their love and appreciation of the previous work of the creator(s).

And they've loved it. They've enjoyed this fresh take on the character, mentioning how they've liked the change from the grim and dour Matt of yore. So have you considered the possibility that some of the elements of the character that you seem to hold in high regard may be preventing new readers from joining up? I mean, we're not exactly living in the heyday of grim' n' gritty anymore.

[james castle]

[kentuckydevil]

Harvey Awards.

Waid best writer for his work on Daredevil..

Hmmmmmm..guess I'm missing something...

Congratulations to Mark Waid.

ky

[Dimetre]

[Darkdevil]

On top of his Harvey win, the team of Waid & Samnee are set to take on a new solo Black Widow series.