Comments on: Daredevil #87 Review

By: Mic Moore

Mic Moore — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:44:41 +0000

Dan Rand running around as DD makes sense because he has another alias now and can help create the confusion of Who Is Daredevil. Makes good sense to me. Kinda neat to have two alternate hero identities. Also saves him in implicating Iron F.
But on to the interesting stuff. Did anyone notice that Lennox's door could say Murtaugh and Lennox on it? Murtaugh could be pronounced Murdock...

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:44:26 +0000

"Why would he continue being Daredevil when on the run?"

Presumably to keep up the idea that Daredevil and Matt Murdock are in two different places at the same time, and comprehensively squash any prospect of Matt being re-arrested when he finally returns to America.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:35:55 +0000

Sadly, I have been meaning to buy Daredevil since Bendis started, and I still haven't gotten around to it.

One day... I'll go mad with the trades. But till then... *sob*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:38:38 +0000

I don't know, I just started reading DD again with this arc (I stopped during the Nocenti/JR jr run), and was loving everything up to the new issue. Everything just fell apart, from the revelation of Iron Fist as DD (Brubaker to readers "Check out my forthcoming Iron Fist series!"), to the whole prison set story (get him on a helicopter and off Rykers, that solves everything), to Foggy reappearing at the conclusion. This issue struck me as a textbook example of how not to end a multi-issue story.

By: markus

markus — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:19:03 +0000

@moose
from a distance it strikes me that you appear to have a far stronger attachment to the character Daredevil than Brian.
Me, I don't care for the character, I want a good story. If that takes stepping down on the character, so be it. I get no joy out of Brubaker signalling he'll do right by the character or somesuch.
Then again, that's why I read next to no superbooks and I'll grant that within their microcosm character over story might be the default and even the better choice.

By: moose n squirrel

moose n squirrel — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:31:47 +0000

Jesus, Cronin. Every time I read something like this from you I wonder if you're borderline autistic. That letter column heading was fantastic, the icing on the cake of this story arc. We get to the end and Matt's out of prison, the schmuck at the FBI who wanted to get him killed is about to get his ass handed to him, the public is starting to doubt whether Daredevil was Matt Murdock in the first place, and to top it off Foggy's still alive. "Did You Really Think I'd Kill Foggy?" is a winking acknowledgement of the fact that you can't keep stepping on these characters forever, that the approach of just tearing them down and leaving them in ruins leads nowhere, and that on Brubaker's Daredevil at least, those days are over. Brubaker is going to slowly start building Matt Murdock up again after years and years of him getting torn down. That's the signal that letter column was giving, and it was awesome.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:36:04 +0000

Don't even get me started on character continuity in 'Civil War', Jordan. Cable in his own series? "I'm not going to help you, Captain America, but I offer you a place of refuge." Cable in Civil War? "Hey, I'm just going to stand right behind Cap, shooting people and not talking very much."

By: Jordan D. White

Jordan D. White — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:17:34 +0000

But now that the fake DD is revealed, I can't help but be confused by his inclusion in Civil War. Why would he continue being Daredevil when on the run? He's not Daredevil. He was hired to impersonate him, sure, but if he's on the run from the Government, is he still going to be receiving checks? Kind of goofy, if you ask me. I mean, it may be that Brubaker will have Matt ask him to continue being Daredevil... we'll see, I guess.