Daredevil Message Board

ninjacop · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 7:40 pm Post subject: What is DD to you?

Hi all

I'm personally loving the current run on DD and think it is the best since Bendis and Maleev left. However i'm getting the feeling on the board and across the web that alot of people aren't that keen on it.

Then it occured to me, DD is like Doctor Who or James Bond, everybody has their 'favourite', and with each new run by a writer/artist team there is almost a new DD.

My question is what is DD to you if not the current run, what defines DD. For me it is Bendis/Maleev but I love the current run because it is so refreshing after a decade of grim and gritty DD.

Thanks
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Pete · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject:

Daredevil to me is the guy I read for the first time way back in 1973! It was a reprint of DD #1 by Lee/ Everett and that is the version thats stuck with me.

Everything else since are just variations or interpretations of that guy, some good, some not so good.

Ronald · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject:

I started reading Daredevil in the Brubaker era (with a few minor exceptions), but I have read some of the Bendis stories as well. Both writers had a similar take on the character of DD; a man tenacious beyond all else, but with a definite self-destructive streak. They had taken the gritty Daredevil story about as far as it could go, so it was definitely time for a change. In general, Mark Waid has done a great job of re-inventing DD (or at least returning him to his pre-Miller roots).

The things that bother me about Waid's tenure are these; he didn't follow up on many of the story threads after "Shadowland", he has neglected many of Daredevil's associates, and he has moved towards more of a mainstream superhero story instead of the street-level adventures from before. These changes seem calculated to bring DD to a wider audience (which seems to be working!) but I have been a bit put off by it. Just the same, one can't wallow in misery forever, so maybe it's all for the best.

Ron

Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

My first DD comic was a Lee/Wood reprint book, but I think I relate more to the O'Neil/Mazzucchelli run, since that's when I started collecting monthly. But as I've worked forwards and backwords getting all the issues, it's really opened my eyes to all the talent that has worked on this title.
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Ryu Murdock · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:19 am Post subject:

Bendis is my favorite DD scribe. But to say his version of Daredevil is my definition of Daredevil would be wrong.

ClichÃ© as it may sound. Life is like a wheel indeed. Your at the bottom one day, on the top the next, and may be possessed by a demon tomorrow. With Waid's run, Matt seems to be at the top right now, and to say he climbed up from the very bottom and maid that wheel turn is an understatement. That man suffered! I love Waid's run because he is just giving Matt his overdue happy go lucky life, less trials and tribulations. But being estranged from your bestfriend and not being able to do anything about it is quite a hard blow. He might not be getting the punches he got during Bendis and Brubaker's run, but Waid is starting to turn that wheel yet again from what I can see.

Writers all over can write DD however they want. But they should not stop writing stories where Matt overcomes the challenges set forth to him. Because that is what Matt is, that is what DD should be. Someone or something that will overcome anything no matter how crazy life gets.
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Darkdevil · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:19 am Post subject:

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