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blacktyphoid
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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: It's Fake Daredevil Month (Spoilers) |
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Two great looking covers, ASM # 566 and Mighty Avengers #16, adorned the shelves of comic book stores this month. Both show Daredevil - or so it seems.
In ASM #566, Peter Parker asks to borrow the DD suit with the eye openings. Why? I presume that if he can see out of his Spidey mask, then he should be able to do like-wise in the regular DD mask. As a result, the detail seemed a little goofy to me.
(Unless of course the DD suit is made from a thicker fabric. But I doubt it. [And how would Pete know that anyway?] Rather the latest DD suit was probably redesigned with special synthetic fabric by some Marvel egg-head like Reed Richards or Tony Stark to ensure the greatest degree of comfort and protection from wear and tear).
Spidey in the DD suit presented a kind of inadvertant(?) throwback to the old wisecracking Lee/Romita/early Colan version of Daredevil. It was a nice to see that aspect of Daredevil's personality make a brief return, even it happened to be Peter Parker as Daredevil.
Speaking of throwbacks, I thought the Mighty Avengers cover is a nice homage to the immortal DD #168 cover that featured Elektra's first ever appearance.
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Gloria
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:22 am Post subject: Re: It's Fake Daredevil Month (Spoilers) |
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| blacktyphoid wrote: | | Unless of course the DD suit is made from a thicker fabric. But I doubt it. [And how would Pete know that anyway?] |
I doubt it too, Daredevil doesn't going around saying "I'm a blind superhero!" (in fact, DD acting like a sighted person, is what covers his secret ID).
What I was (a bit) shocked about is Matt and Spidey having this conversation in the front of the building! (isn't that a bit compromising for Matt?)
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blacktyphoid
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: It's Fake Daredevil Month (Spoilers) |
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[quote="Gloria"] | blacktyphoid wrote: |
What I was (a bit) shocked about is Matt and Spidey having this conversation in the front of the building! (isn't that a bit compromising for Matt?) |
Interesting point. But I would disagree. Matt Murdock is recognized as Marvel Universe lawyer. From the Fantastic Four to the X-Men to the Hulk to the Black Widow to the White Tiger to the Sub-Mariner, either he or Foggy have defended or represented virtually every major superhero (and several villians, too). So to see some guy walking sideways across Matt's widow late at night might be perceived as just another looney client of his. Yawn...all in a day's work.
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Gloria
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You're right about the "Nelson, Blake & Murdock, superhero counselors" bit, but still... someone who might be stalking the place (whereas it is a servant the Law or a super-villain's goon) might overhear the "lend me the red suit" bit and reach uncomfortable conclusions.
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blacktyphoid
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| Gloria wrote: | | You're right about the "Nelson, Blake & Murdock, superhero counselors" bit, but still... someone who might be stalking the place (whereas it is a servant the Law or a super-villain's goon) might overhear the "lend me the red suit" bit and reach uncomfortable conclusions. |
You're right. If properly written, he'd be extremely more careful. And what's Matt doing with a mask that has eye-openings anyway? The Daredevil element to this story is terribly written (so far).
It's a funny thing about ol' Spidey...You can stop reading the book for 40 years and, like a bad soap opera, you can pick it up again and feel as if you haven't missed a beat. For instance: There's Harry Osborn still giving Pete the gears, there's the Coffee Bean hang-out and there's a Peter Parker in dire financial troubles and living with a room mate. Sheesh - It's 1966 all over again. As the title stipulates, it is truly Amazing!
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jumonji
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| blacktyphoid wrote: | | And what's Matt doing with a mask that has eye-openings anyway? The Daredevil element to this story is terribly written (so far). |
The whole eye holes in the mask thing (and Spidey swinging around in it - and still sticking to buildings in a very non-Daredevilesque way) is like something out of Silver Age Daredevil, an era which I enjoy more for its astonishing goofiness than any real quality in terms of storytelling. You're right, why would Matt have a mask with eye holes in it? And why would he need to? Danny Rand could obviously see through his mask just fine. In fact, if the mask wouldn't allow a sighted person to see through it, wouldn't that be very suspicious if Matt were to ever get separated from it?
| blacktyphoid wrote: | | It's a funny thing about ol' Spidey...You can stop reading the book for 40 years and, like a bad soap opera, you can pick it up again and feel as if you haven't missed a beat. For instance: There's Harry Osborn still giving Pete the gears, there's the Coffee Bean hang-out and there's a Peter Parker in dire financial troubles and living with a room mate. Sheesh - It's 1966 all over again. As the title stipulates, it is truly Amazing! |
Well, the book obviously got hit with a bad case of Peter Pan and is now stuck in Neverland where no one ever has to grow up. What's amazing about this issue is all the rave reviews it's been getting. It's not terrible precisely, but logic seems to have gone out the window in places, and I personally have a very low tolerance for the kind of forced "funniness" that you see in Spidey stories. The jokes aren't that funny. Good comedy doesn't have to announce itself with a big "I just made a funny" sign.
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Gloria
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| jumonji wrote: | | Well, the book obviously got hit with a bad case of Peter Pan and is now stuck in Neverland where no one ever has to grow up. |
Maybe Quesada wanted to turn Petey into Marvel's Archie... But then Archie never (well, to my knowledge) has made strange deals with the netherworld to get rid of either Betty or Veronica.
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