Daredevil Message Board

[MaxP]

Ever since big company wide crossovers were introduced at Marvel back in the '80's Daredevil has just about always been not involved with them. That is his book has not had an official tie in with the core series. For one reason or another he almost always misses out. With Secret Wars 1 he never even went to Battleworld, yet he did get a crossover with Secret Wars 2. In the 90's he wasn't involved in the infinity trilogy except for one crossover with the Infinty War that was only very loosely tied to the core series. Again his Onslaught involvement was minimal, there was no tie in to the Maximum Security, House Of M, Civil War, World War Hulk and now also Secret Invasion. Ironically the crossovers he did officially tie in with were the smaller X Men ones of the 80's such as Fall of the Mutants and Inferno, ironic because he has virtually little to no involvement with the XMen subuniverse.
I for one don't mind this, as it keeps DD more confined to his own dark little urban corner of the MU which suits him just fine. Unlike the rest of the MU which seem to be morphing into two teams-XMen for mutants and Avengers for everyone else(with the Iniative and the Illuminti seemingly meaning everyone is now working closely together one way or another), DD is still one of the few characters who does is own thing and is a true loner which I think is cool. Having said that though it might be nice to see him in the odd crossover if he fits the story.
I was wondering what others thought?
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Later from MaxP

[jumonji]

I think that if the story is appropriate and he works well as a character in it, both in terms of personality and power level (i.e. his involvement seems logical), it might be a good idea for him to be involved in something outside his own book. But that's a pretty big "if." As it is, I think a lot of the quality has to do with him doing his own thing. But I definitely think Marvel should promote him a little more generally.
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[Pete]

I'm quite happy to see DD stay away from most if not all company wide 'crossovers', as most of these things are best forgotten anyway, and the characters that are used tend, on the whole, to be badly used.

Luckily for the book, some the things the character had to be involved in back in the 80's (Fall of The Mutants, Acts of Vengeance etc) just happened to fall within Nocenti's superb run on the book. There were many things she did well, one of which was to incorporate these rather silly company wide crossovers imposed on her writing all within her main narrative and actually make it ADD to the book and the character.

I'm sure, not as easy as she made it look.