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Elektra # 1

 
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Dimetre
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sunni wrote:
Seeing as how they all died right away, clearly I expected way too much out of the civilians. After all, it is called Murderworld. But considering their opponents were just rich sadists and not necessarily trained combatants, shouldn’t someone besides Elektra have made it a bit farther? Maybe I’m overthinking this.

That was my big problem with this issue. It seems that they just wrote in these extra contestants just so they could get killed off right away, which begs the question, why did we need them in the first place? Once again, I got no sense of Screwball's character, and even though there was a whole bunch of business, I don't think the story moved forward very much. I hope this story sticks a solid landing, or I may not be motivated to keep going with this series.
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Sunni
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2017 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really, really liked issue 4 but with all the gaming and social media references in the issue it might not be everyone’s cup of tea. I did find that Cabal’s and Morazzo’s art didn’t mesh completely, but it was close. There was a nice callback to Matt again, and I’m glad Elektra found Lauren. Hopefully they both make it past Arcade here in the finale.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Enjoyable and fitting finale. Arcade made a good showing, and it really surprised me that Kingpin was behind trying to eliminate Elektra and some of the other heroes. I’m happy that Elektra saw Lauren off at the bus station, and I hope they keep in touch. The last two pages were great and a nice note to end on for both this series and the other two books, working as an ending to the entire Running With The Devil event.

I’m bummed that this series won’t continue. I didn’t think Elektra or Kingpin would run for years, but this is the one I was hoping to get two arcs out of. It did sell better than both Kingpin and Bullseye but not enough to sustain an ongoing. And her last series didn’t do too much better than this one at eleven issues. Unfortunately, I think reader demand has to be rebuilt for Elektra. Her appearances in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Uncanny Avengers were both too short to really do anything with her, and if Blade’s recent appearance is anything to go by, Defenders isn’t the place to build her up either. Now that she’s back in NYC, hopefully we’ll see her in Daredevil again.
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