Daredevil Message Board

[alexander284]

Was there ever a time you DIDN'T like Daredevil?

Was DD an "acquired taste" for you?

Did you ever "give up" on his comic?
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Like Daredevil, my "lack of fear" often gets me into trouble.

[Stanley]

I've always liked the character.

When I feel like I have a better handle on Matt than the guy telling the story, I check out.

...But I always stay close enough to jump back in.

[alexander284]

[Francesco]

[Kuljit Mithra]

There was a time where I stopped reading comics in high school, but I continued to pick up Daredevil, just because.

I did lose interest in the comic just after Fall From Grace up until the Kesel/Nord stories... I just couldn't get into it. Strangely enough, that's when I started the site, as that phase was ending...
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Kuljit Mithra
www.manwithoutfear.com

[Darediva]

I have been in and out for the whole run. I always READ the comics, when I could find them, but during a long hiatus, I didn't BUY them, because it was frowned upon to be reading comics because they were so unladylike. (Huge eyeroll here.)

I hated the time period when DD went to hell, the voodoo stuff, and the armored costume period. But I wasn't so far away that I couldn't pick it back up.

Been pretty solid since the Kesel/Nord days.
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Alice




Those who throw dirt merely lose ground.

[james castle]

My knee jerk reaction was "nope" but looking back at it I realize I haven't liked a whole bunch of Daredevil. I started with the Nocenti run and loved every minute of it. While reading those I caught up on all the Miller stuff and loved it. I was also a huge fan of Chichester's stuff (even the Tree of Knowledge). Everything between Chichester's main run and his return for the final issue of Volume 1 was crap. Kevin Smith was crap. Parts of a Hole...also crap. But then Bendis saved us all. Trial of the Century was crap. Ultimate crap was Vision Quest. Although that's not really fair since it wasn't a Daredevil story at all.

Through it all though I've never missed an issue (except for Vision Quest but again - doesn't count).

That said, I've always loved the character. It's just the writers I don't like.
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JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?

[blacktyphoid]

I'm old school. I've got the entire set going back to Vol 1, no. 1. That's every Daredevil comic ever published since the character's inception.

When I was 17, I took half the money I made from my summer camp job ($100) to purchase the first 100 issues of vol. 1 from a friend. (At that time, it seemed like a lot of money. No doubt, that became the greatest financial investment I ever made!)

The guy I purched the DD comics from was a part-time comic book collector and full-time drug pusher. He lived in his parents home and his comic collecting became a front for drug sales. He had his own car, television, tons of albums and tapes and other cool things that other kids our age could only dream of. He told his parents that his money was derived from his comic book sales - and they believed him. My friend was quite the entrepreneur.

Any rate, because I have the entire set, having bought every issue since vol. 1 no. 100, simply "staying close" during the bad periods is not an option for me. I must continue buying regardless of the quality because a set this large cannot be broken. The larger the set the harder to quit.

I, too, hated Vision Quest. (I'm not a big fan of Mack to begin with.) That was a painful six issues (and half year of DD collecting) - which I had to buy so that a 40 year old set would not be broken.

I wasn't a fan of Kessel and Nord, either. I thought Nord was a terrible artist. But again, I had to buy them.

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blacktyphoid

[Gloria]

[MaxP]

Flying Blind (circa #376-379)was the pinnacle of absolute crap, a load of utter garbage of a story. It was around here the title came as close to death as a title can get without being actually canceled. It was the bookend of a horror era of DD which in my opinion started with the Dan Chichester run after #300. Scott McDaniel was still learning to draw, a terrible inker made his pencils and thus the art overall just unbearable, and the storys were badly executed and were so hard to understand what was happening in them. The Kruel story had the worst use of unbelievable co-incidences I've ever seen. Terrible!
Still I slogged through it all, month after month, year after year, hoping things would get better. The only respite was the DeMattias run which I did enjoy, and the Kessell and Kelley runs were OK, but still were dissappoining overall.
In fact it wasn't until Parts of a hole I started to enjoy the book again, and have more or less been enjoying it ever since.
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Later from MaxP

[Dimetre]

I first got into Daredevil when Denny O'Neil was writing it. He quickly became my favourite character. However I stopped buying comics altogether for many years.

When I got the idea to write a Daredevil screenplay, I started buying the comics to see what he was up to. This was during Guardian Devil and I got hooked again. I started getting into all the back issues. I honestly think Chichester's period was the worst era for Daredevil, although I've still never read Flying Blind.

I enjoyed Guardian Devil, loved Parts of a Hole, tolerated Playing to the Camera, then became increasingly annoyed during Bendis' run. I kept buying the comic as I was waiting to see what Mack was going to do with Vision Quest. I enjoyed it as concept art, but it wasn't a Daredevil story. I didn't want to read more Bendis, so I dropped it. I picked it up when Brubaker took over, and I've been enjoying the book ever since.

[MarcWagz]

shortly after I watched Ben Affleck be someone sort of like daredevil I kinda dislikes the character for a while.

[Mandrill]

I randomly decide to reread the entire series, and I have to say that v1 50-100 are painful. Daredevil whines and makes incredibly non-Daredevilesque remarks. Half of each issue is him reflecting on events from 1-49.

I challenge anyone to sit and read 50-100 then go read any of the other "bad" runs and tell me that they compare.

[blacktyphoid]

[Mandrill]

Breakthrough? Hardly. Comix had been around for at least 10 years before that horrid period of Daredevil and they did far more to break down any sexual revolution stereotypes than DD ever had an opportunity to do. Not only that, but this era of DD was a POOR representation of the sexual revolution. "I'm my own woman! But I'll chase you back to NY and hope we can stay together. But I want to be in the forefront! But I'll stay here if you tell me to." Blah.

The reason I proclaim it to be a non-DD version of DD is because you could easily paste a picture of Spider-Man over Daredevil and change any mention of "Daredevil" to "Spider-Man" and be none the wiser that it was NOT a Spider-Man issue.

Beyond that, it is a period in which some of the most ridiculous storylines appear (though a bit before the amazing Voodoo carp) and in which most of the incongruities of DD's abilities appear. Unless you find it feasible that he could fly an airplane, even if Tony Stark designed it.

I will give that his revelation to Karen Page about being DD occurs in this run, but it is sullied by the fact that the storyline it occurred in was *horrible*.

But this is all my opinion and you are certainly entitled to yours. I still would like you to point out a more irrelevant and craptacular period for DD.