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ROUND 1
Showdown 1 : #169 "Devils" (8 votes) vs #245 "Burn !" (3 votes)
Showdown 2 : #191 "Roulette" (11) vs #247 "The Backwards Man" (1)
Showdown 3 : #192 "Promises" (4) vs #266 "A Beer With The Devil"(5) vs V2 #88 "The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson" (1)
Showdown 4 : #219 "Badlands" (3) vs #268 "Golden Rut" (7) vs V2 #94 "Our Love Story" (0)
Showdown 5 : #185 "Guts" (7) vs #223 "The Price" (1) vs #277 "Of Crowns and Horns" (1)
Showdown 6 : #225 ". . . And Then You Die" (4) vs #291 "All The News That Fits" (4)
Showdown 7 : #208 "The Deadliest Night of My Life" (2) vs #236 "American Dreamer"(2) vs #304 "34 Hours"(5)
Showdown 8 : #220 "Fog" (5) vs #238 "It Comes With The Claws" (1) vs #380 "Just One Good Story"(5)
ROUND 2
Showdown 9 : #169 "Devils" vs #185 "Guts"
Showdown 10 : #191 "Roulette" vs #225 ". . . And Then You Die" vs #291 "All The News That Fits"
Showdown 11 : #266 "A Beer With The Devil" vs #304 "34 Hours"
Showdown 12 : #220 "Fog" vs #268 "Golden Rut" vs #380 "Just One Good Story"
ROUND 3
Showdown 13 : Winner of 9 vs Winner of 11
Showdown 14 : Winner of 10 vs Winner of 12
FINAL :
Showdown 15 : Winner of 13 vs Winner of 14

It's the beginning of Round 2 !
Showdown 9 is a duel of two Miller-Janson issues.
DD vs Bullseye or Foggy with Turk ?
Choose your pair !

And, besides voting, please drop us some lines to explain your choice or plead the cause of your favorite !

This poll will be running for four days.
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Gloria · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:03 am Post subject:

Ok, I voted "Guts" again.

"Devils" is one hell of an issue, and very much the quintessential Miller DD story... As I stated in another thread, "Devils" is the comic which got me into Daredevil (and pretty much into Marvel), still...

...C'mon, don't expect a practising Nelsonian like me to leave the Fogster alone! Razz

... and anyway, most of you are surely going to vote "Devils" Wink

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Dimetre · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:07 pm Post subject:

I also voted for Guts.

I love Devils, but I think Miller was still finding his feet as a writer at the time - witness the third-person narration during the battle in the subway tunnel. Miller wouldn't do much third-person narration much longer. But it's one of the best Bullseye-DD battles. It hurts to vote against it.

Guts was very experimental, and I have to love that. From the first page with Daredevil directly addressing the reader, to Foggy's constant narration, Miller really took some chances here, and it turns out wonderfully. By this time, Miller and Janson had really come together and found their style on the book. Everyone in Daredevil's supporting cast gets to shine, and not at Daredevil's expense. So Guts has my vote.

Blind Alley · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject:

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