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Post by profh0011 on Sept 28, 2019 12:31:33 GMT -5
The Essentials are the black and white reprints, right? I prefer them over the badly coloured Masterworks but would still prefer something in colour - just done better, i.e. closer to the original look, than the Masterworks. Yeah. I haven't been following stuff much lately, but, it seems to me Marvel (and DC) have started doing COLOR paperback equivalents of the B&W ESSENTIALs.
It seems to me they did a color TPB of Don McGregor's BLACK PANTHER run in JUNGLE ACTION. I got it as a present for my best friend, bought online and shipped to his house. So HE saw it, but I didn't! I have the orignals. I know it contained FF #52-53... I wonder if they "fixed" the reprint of FF #52, as the Masterworks book had HORRIFICALLY-bad line reproduction on that one issue? #53 had BRAND-NEW stats shot directly off the original art, and actually looked SHARPER than the original 1966 comic-book, something I've never seen before or since with a 60s reprint.
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Post by sabongero on Jun 15, 2020 10:20:26 GMT -5
Has anyone here read the current run of Daredevil written by Chip Zdarsky ? What do you guys think about his Daredevil stories ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 11:13:11 GMT -5
Has anyone here read the current run of Daredevil written by Chip Zdarsky ? What do you guys think about his Daredevil stories ? I am enjoying it. It definitely is drawn out going for a longer story overall. The Fisk as Mayor story has been entertaining as his handling of NYC has been up and down. My only complaint is it has been over a year since we saw Matt as DD. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 16, 2020 10:33:46 GMT -5
I haven't read a ton of Daredevil, but I've read a bunch of Steve Gerber/Gene Colan issues, and I liked them. Nothing special but some good, solid Bronze Age Marvel stuff. I liked the Deathstalker stuff. The Frank Miller stuff is of course great, but I really don't like his art. My Daredevil dream team would be Frank Miller's writing and Gene Colan's art.
And yeah, I liked the stretch where Black Widow shared the cover credits.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 16, 2020 12:40:21 GMT -5
I'd like Nocenti's run to get more recognition. It was really impressive to see her veer away from the two obvious tracks she could have chosen: either continue doing what Miller had been doing, or go back to the basics. She did neither, and gave us a Matt Murdock we hadn't seen before: poor but still defending the downtrodden, and not obsessed about regaining his privileged status quo. He was like an Emile Zola superhero for a while.
Matt's beliefs also played a great role during Nocenti's run, and not just because he wants to help the needy; he also had to face his failings as a human being, in a most personal way, as temptation came his way in a most pernicious and believable way (a theme that led him to face the devil on two occasions).
Really a great run. Nocenti also had a knack for turning the most formulaic "event" in a special thing: her tie-in to "Fall of the mutants" and to "Acts of vengeance" were excellent, with the latter (DD vs Ultron!) being one of my favourite storylines of all time.
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Post by earl on Jun 16, 2020 15:24:47 GMT -5
It did not hurt that Daredevil had comic legend Al Williamson ink a bunch of issues in Nocenti’s run. Amazing artwork with JR Jr.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jun 19, 2020 11:22:28 GMT -5
Ol' Hornhead is probably my single favorite Marvel character. I've been amassing a collection of the original run for over 30 years now, and I'm down to needing 12 of the 381 issues. My first introduction to the character was issue #82. I was 8 years old at the time, and I was hooked hard. Here was a guy as acrobatic as Spider-man, but with enhanced hearing, smell, and the "radar sense" (never mind that he was blind). I soon bought or traded whatever I could to obtain any Daredevil issues, and had a nice little collection for an 8yr old.
At 8, I was even role-playing DD on my own sometimes. I took a length of rope and my dad somehow attached it to an old hammer handle for me. Then, I would wrap or tie the rope around the top crossbar of the backyard swing set, grab onto the hammer handle, and swing myself back and forth-- in my mind I was swinging through the city on my billy club! I had a neighbor girl who would play with me sometimes, and she would be either Black Widow or Batgirl-- usually Batgirl (man, that would make some kind of crossover story!). I'm sure that my mom thought it was hilarious to see us sneaking around trees and tumbling through the back yard while we were battling the imaginary bad guys. Almost 50 years later, the details are pretty fuzzy, but I distinctly remember playing DD a LOT.
Anyway, the Conway Black Widow run remains my personal favorite to this day, partly for nostalgic reasons, but also because it took Daredevil out of his Hell's Kitchen element and dumped him in San Francisco for many, many issues, which really set him apart from most other Marvel characters based in NYC. The Colan art was consistently good, and yes, toward the end of the Black Widow run, the artwork was often spotty. In retrospect, as much as I like the Miller run, Gerry Conway's DD will always be tops for me. This is the issue that began my lifelong love for the character--
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Post by kirby101 on Jun 19, 2020 12:00:12 GMT -5
As ground breaking as Millers run was. My DD was always drawn by Gene Colan. I loved when he did multiple figures.  Favorite cover.  |
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