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[Kuljit Mithra]

Finally was able to pick this up last night. In general, it's a very nice character piece that makes you actually feel sympathy for Wilson Fisk. I really liked David Aja's work here. It reminded me in some ways of Mazzucchelli and Weeks, and some of the designs (the page with Spider-Man, DD and Bullseye) were also nice.
I've also gotta give credit to Stefano Gaudiano here... he's able to ink over so many different types of artists and do it well. I like how he used his own thumbprints to help ink.

Should be an interesting issue next month.
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[Dave Wallace]

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Okay, so I haven't really read comics much lately (still buy some, but most have just piled up). I just finished reading #109-#116 and doing some much needed catchng up (jeez, you should see my stack of Batmans!).

ROTK Part 1 (or the prologue, if you will), was decent. I hope it makes good on the promise it shows. But, truth be told, I've had mixed feelings regarding Bru, lately. The stories (especially the last arc) haven't been terrible, but they just haven't been all that spectacular for me, either. So much so, my DD comics actually piled up.

I, actaully, can't beleive some of you guys like this Lady Bullseye character. I truly hope KP ends her this arc (or at least the next writer does). I find nothing compelling about this character. Oh, and Master Izo . . . geez. Seriously, is Stevie Wonder making appearance anytime soon? A Stick-like character that's like Stick, and looks like Stick, but isn't Stick, yet taught Stick. It's like Bru being in a band and thinking it would be great to have a concert on a rooftop. Get back, Loretta.

The only thing I really liked, recently, was Matt and Dakota's relationship. She is soooo much cooler than Mila Then it turns out Bru was really just doing this to help his plot along and Mila's parent's lawyers. It's amazing how arbitrary Matt's senses can be, like hearing Lady Bull's laughter blocks away, but not a dude with a camera. But, anyway, that's just being picky, I know. I won't even get into how boring and predictable DD has become with the everyone knows his senses thing, thanks to Bendis. Seriously, why don't villains just carry a sonic device to incapacitate him before the fight even starts. For heaven's sake, any mailman should be able to beat DD. Oh, wait, then we wouldn't have a comic. But, we wouldn't have had that great "outing" story, either, would we? A story that I really can't even remember the details of, at least not the way I remember Miller, Nocienti and Chichester's stuff.

But anyway, whatever, I'm remain optimistic. I guess.
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Hmm... Well, I can certainly buy Lady B not being very interesting though I think she's an okay villain. Then again, I'm usually only interested in most villains from a "what does he/she tell us about the main character" perspective, so I wouldn't know. I also thought that the fall-out of that arc, #115, was the weakest issue of Bru's to date, but that the four preceding it were good.

I'm going to have to disagree about Master Izo though. Superficially, you're absolutely right. Blind ninja who trained Stick. How can he not be just like Stick? But when it comes to their personalities they seem like complete opposites. Granted, we never really got to know Stick that well, but my impression of him was that he was strict, extremely disciplined, and had no sense of humor whatsoever. I'm not saying Izo is ready for a primetime comedy show, but Stick never even smiled. Aside from the obvious superficial resemblance, they don't feel like the same character to me at all. (What are others impressions of Stick, btw?)

About Matt and Dakota, I never got the feeling that she was just a temporary plot device, and in interviews Bru even seemed to hint at her getting a much bigger role in the future. Who knows what's going to happen with that once he's off the book, but I never got the feeling that the only fallout of their affair was to get Matt in trouble with the in-laws.

When it comes to Matt's senses, I do agree that they're arbitrary, though not more so now than in the past generally. I never reacted to either of the scenes you mentioned though and I don't really get the comparison. Not only is the "sound physics" (which, yeah, I'm geeky enough to take into account when reading DD) of the two situations very different, but in the later scenario he's having sex with a model. Now that's a plausible distraction if there ever was one. Though why he doesn't close the curtains escapes me. Bru does underestimate the senses from time to time, but I didn't feel this was one of those times.

My candidate for most irksome superhearing moment goes to Bendis though. Remember that scene from Trial of the Century, when he's on top of the courthouse and listening to the jury in the basement? That is so far-fetched it bugs me every time I see it. Those sounds should have physically stopped existing several stories below (hearing things from far away on an open street is a completely different animal). I don't mind a little stretch here and there, it's a comic after all, but that was a pretty major one in my book.

And, yeah, everyone knowing the details of his physiology isn't good for the credibility of the stories generally. I totally agree.

Either way, it's nice to see you back.
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