Mike Murdock Golden Age
Joined: 08 Sep 2014 Posts: 1750
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Dimetre wrote: |
Bendis seems to have acted as the Fisk model this issue, and that's okay. I would have rather he wore a more traditional Fisk-style suit, especially since the other artists drew him in one. Maybe Bendis doesn't own a suit? |
Heh, that's pretty funny.
Quote: | Instead of Agent Driver, Bendis gives us Ming in this issue as the voice of people not impressed by the antagonist. This will forever frustrate me about Bendis. What is accomplished by a character who makes the antagonist look less competent? Why not just have everyone completely terrified of Fisk, and leave Matt as the only character who isn't. Wouldn't that make Matt more special in our eyes? Ming becomes an even more pointless character after Matt smashes the car into the warehouse, because all of Fisk's underlings magically vanish. |
I think the intent is to show Fisk's ruthlessness since Ming is immediately put in his place. That being said, I don't like the scene either. It does fit the pattern with Bendis and Fisk going back to Underboss.
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After this issue, David Mack returned to the title with what was originally conceived as an Echo mini-series, but ended up taking up four issues of Daredevil. I bought those issues, and they would have been better as an Echo title. But I was done with Bendis. The next issue of Daredevil I would buy was Volume 2 #82 -- Ed Brubaker's first issue on the title. |
Ouch. Well, if it's any consolation, we're done with Bendis as well (at least for the foreseeable future).
Quote: | It's amusing to me, though, that there is still this confusion about what it meant, exactly, for Matt to call himself Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen, and it's fourteen years later. |
Yeah, when I wrote down my thoughts the second time reading this (as opposed to this time, which is the third), I said that I thought him declaring himself Kingpin was weird but might be better once I read more. Since I have read more, I can answer myself and say "not really." Maybe he has ruthless tunnel vision? It's not entirely clear. All I can tell is he took off his mask and growled at some people and because of the specific words he chose, other superheroes were pissed off at him. The time jump didn't help since it fudged over those details.
Regardless, next week we'll have Joe Kelly for a change of pace. _________________ Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
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