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jumonji
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| Gloria wrote: | ... And then Mr. Fear, Bullseye or the Red Skull would attack them by just sending spam or viruses, which is indeed a crappy thing to do, but always more civilized than screwing the lives of their loved ones  |
Well, hey this is a common theme in lots of movies out there and computer viruses could certainly do a lot of damage. But I guess you're right about how drugging someone's wife and making her completely psychotic is worse than, well, a lot of things actually. It's pretty low... Poor Milla. I really hope Bru doesn't kill her. I've never been a huge fan of hers, but that would just be too cliché (which is why I'm pretty sure he won't, he's much better than that).
Ok, back on topic again. Or, maybe to broaden the subject a little, let's look at the assistive technology angle generally. My general take on this is that nothing should ever be included in this book that seems forced or out of context. This is a superhero comic about a tortured, conflicted guy who does what he can to fight evil on as many fronts as possible. It's also about him as a person and his relationships with other people (which I think is one of the strenghts of the book). That's the bottom line and that's what the book is primarily about.
Having said that, there are a lot of aspects to the character that combine to make him what he is. He is a lawyer, he has the whole Catholic guilt thing, his father was murdered, he gets beaten up all the time, he has the most tragic love life on the planet with people dying on him, his morals are sometimes questionable (though he is essentially a very moral person), he's rich and famous, he's a husband, a friend, a redhead, a New Yorker, and he's blind. I know, big shocker, right? Of course he's got all these other nifty powers which supposedly compensate for this. In costume, I totally agree with this assessment. His whole physiology is uniquely suited to his superhero antics, and if anything the sensitivity of his heightened senses is more of a handicap than his blindness which is pretty much a non-issue. Sure, someone could tease him by writing "DD is a momma's boy" all over the wall of a warehouse somewhere when he's making a bust and then laugh at him for not noticing, which would be a little mean. Though probably less mean than drugging his wife.
Still, in the real world (if one may invoke the real world in superhero comics), not seeing any light or color is obviously a disability. Plain and simple. Even with his heightened senses and radar (and even if it were as acute as normal vision, which is not how it's generally portrayed), 100% color blindness alone would qualify as a pretty substantial visual impairment. So he's pretty much in a situation where he's much better than everybody else at certain things, while being at an obvious disadvantage in certain situations, dealing with any form of light-based information being one of them, and reading anything from a distance being another. He also can't "handle" mirrors, photographs, binoculars, microscopes, and a long list of other more or less everyday things that I can't think of right now, but you get my drift.
So to get back to my point, would he make use of some of the assistive devices that perfectly ordinary non-superpowered blind people use? Sure. Why wouldn't he? Should this be featured in the book? If it seems natural in the situation that is being portrayed and does not come across as forced or out of place, then sure. It's certainly been done before. He's been shown to have a talking beeper, and the talking caller ID from #95 was a nice, and more importantly, in context touch. I don't think writers and artists should be working over-time thinking about this (though they should probably do their homework on the subject), since this is far outside the focus of the book and the stories being told, but it shouldn't be forgotten to the point where the omission of such details becomes more glaring than their inclusion. Drawing Matt's office without a computer in it seems stranger to me than putting it in there. If writers want to include one panel once every five issues of him using a computer, that's up to them, but of course he should have one.
Okay, that turned into a whole essay again. Sorry. 
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| I think that Matt's office actually has computers. One was shown in "the Widow" part 3 if I recall correctly. It was not in his room, anyway, but it would probably be more trouble than it's worth to him. |
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jumonji
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| Francesco wrote: | | I think that Matt's office actually has computers. One was shown in "the Widow" part 3 if I recall correctly. It was not in his room, anyway, but it would probably be more trouble than it's worth to him. |
Oh, I know. The issue is still why he doesn't have one personally. I'm saying that he should have his own computer. I don't buy the more trouble than it's worth argument at all. The work would still have to be done so why would someone else do it for him? Like I said initially, it makes sense for Dakota to do a lot of the heavy-duty research for him because it's probably faster, but I'm talking about basic stuff like writing a memo or checking his email. That shouldn't take him longer than anyone else. If he can't figure out how to do that he's basically "handicapping" himself needlessly and creating extra work for everybody else. I mean, what would he do if he had to check something and he's alone in the office? I bet Milla kicks ass at computer stuff (when she's not psycho), maybe she should show him a few tricks or something.
When I started this thread I didn't exactly think of this as a big deal (still don't), it was just something I noticed, but I still maintain that this is the twenty-first century, computers are a big part of people's lives and almost everyone needs to know how to use a computer. A big-shot attorney should know how to use a computer whether he can see the screen or not. Stuff it with some cool software, and he's set. The Man Without Fear shouldn't be afraid of computers. Well, unless they've been infected with a scary Mr Fear computer virus...
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Francesco
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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Matt has a personal computer and can use it with no troubles, as proved by the fact that Echo wrote him an e-mail in New Avengers #26.
The computer has simply not been shown in the pages of DD. |
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jumonji
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Francesco wrote: | Matt has a personal computer and can use it with no troubles, as proved by the fact that Echo wrote him an e-mail in New Avengers #26.
The computer has simply not been shown in the pages of DD. |
Okay, well that's good to know! 
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jumonji
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Francesco wrote: | | Are you happy now? |
Hey, I was always happy, I just thought it was weird. And he's been shown using a computer in the pages of DD as well (in the Guardian Devil arc for instance), but it's been absent during Brubaker's run. My reaction was mainly to how his office was depicted during #95-99 arc.
UPDATED: I don't think he was shown having on in his office during Bendis's run either though.
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Francesco
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Who knows? Maybe they had experienced some troubles with their office computers and had brought them to technical assistance.
Maybe they had ordered new computers for the new office and were waiting for them to be sent.
Maybe they have the computers in a specially dedicated room, along with the photocopier, the plotter, the scanner and most of the other related stuff, in order to give the clients a more tidy, elegant view of the office.
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And maybe, it's just easier to draw Matt's office with a clean desk. 
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jumonji
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Darediva wrote: | | And maybe, it's just easier to draw Matt's office with a clean desk. |
 Have you guys seen Matt's desk lately? It's a mess. And he used to be so tidy...
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| jumonji wrote: |
Have you guys seen Matt's desk lately? It's a mess. And he used to be so tidy... |
I haven't seen MY desk lately. Nevermind Matt's.
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Speaking of bringing people into the 21st century...how about showing Becky Blake using a modern wheelchair instead of a 1950's VA hospital model? She's a lawyer now; for crying out loud, she can afford it. They even make wheelchairs in colors other than black now, too. Imagine that!
http://www.quickie-wheelchairs.com/2420
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| Darediva wrote: | Speaking of bringing people into the 21st century...how about showing Becky Blake using a modern wheelchair instead of a 1950's VA hospital model? She's a lawyer now; for crying out loud, she can afford it. They even make wheelchairs in colors other than black now, too. Imagine that!
http://www.quickie-wheelchairs.com/2420 |
I know! Considering they updated the rest of her look rather nicely... Hers is so huge it looks like she could fit another person in it or something. 
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