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Comic Book Easter Eggs – Joe Quesada Fills the Pages of Daredevil With Easter Eggs
Every week, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check ‘em all out and enjoy! Also, click here for an archive of all the easter eggs featured so far! If you want to suggest an easter egg for a future column, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com (do not post your suggestion in the comments section!).
This week, all the legends come from issues of Daredevil drawn by Joe Quesada!
These were all suggested by reader Valentijn G. Thanks, Valentijn!
First off, in Daredevil #6, Daredevil visits “Ennis’ Tavern,” where we see Jesse Custer, from Garth Ennis’ Preacher series, at the bar (they are all drinking Dillon Ale, of course, as a reference to Steve Dillon, artist on Preacher)…
The next time Daredevil goes to the Tavern in #13, Jesse is now wearing the eye patch he wore from Preacher #41 to the end of the series…
Quesada also put two nice nods to Kevin Smith, the original writer of Daredevil Volume 2.
First, Matt Murdock and Echo go to see Smith’s film, Mallrats in #11…
And later, in #13, while investigating Echo, Matt visits a familiar video rental establishment from the Smith film, Clerks…
Great stuff from Quesada (and inker Jimmy Palmiotti, and writers Kevin Smith on the first bit and David Mack on the next three)!
Okay, that is it for this week! Thanks for all the neat suggestions, Valentijn!!
If anyone wants to suggest a future easter egg, feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com
30 Comments
Paul B
July 11, 2012 at 11:26 am
“Nails Cigarettes” is also a nod to Kevin Smith in the first shot of Ennis’ Tavern….
Rob Schamberger
July 11, 2012 at 11:30 am
Isn’t that Marv in the first panel from the bar?
Hysan
July 11, 2012 at 11:31 am
Is that Marv from SIN CITY in that first panel?
Michael P
July 11, 2012 at 11:31 am
Jay and Silent Bob also attend Karen Page’s funeral.
Serge365
July 11, 2012 at 11:32 am
You completely missed Marv and the dancer from Sin City in the bar scenes.
yo go re
July 11, 2012 at 11:34 am
One of the movie posters at the theater is Quesada and Palmiotti’s “Ash” comic, too…
Ryan Costello, Jr
July 11, 2012 at 11:46 am
They’re also smoking Nails (as in nails in the coffin), the fictional brand of cigarettes characters smoke in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniver.
Stephane S.
July 11, 2012 at 11:47 am
Also: In Ennis’ Bar, there’s a pack of ‘Nails’ cigarettes, which is what everyone smokes in the Kevin Smith films.
sean
July 11, 2012 at 12:42 pm
“Jay and Silent Bob also attend Karen Page’s funeral.”
They’re apparently close enough to Matt to be on his speed-dial, so that’s no surprise.
Valentijn
July 11, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Wow, thanks for pointing out all those other things guys! Not more familiar with Sin City than having seen the movie, I had completely missed out on the Marv cameo.
And thanks for using my suggestions, Brian, it looks really neat when it’s all shown together!
It’s probably really worth going over Joe Quesada’s Daredevil art with a magnifying glass, there are bound to be more of these nice touches. (Of course, the Karen Page funeral scene already got a spotlight in an earlier Comic Book Easter Eggs.)
Squashua
July 11, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Hey, I think that’s Marv in the first panel there.
kyle
July 11, 2012 at 2:06 pm
I believe that Frank Miller is also drawn into the shadows on that first panel. He’s basically just a head of hair. He also makes a cameo at Karen Page’s funeral.
Apodaca
July 11, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Jiminy Christmas! I forgot about Quesada’s thing of drawing everyone with giant hands.
chad
July 11, 2012 at 2:26 pm
nice picks for i also spotted the sin city ladies in the bar. plus love randals crack about daredevil might have gone blind from watching porn.
phred
July 11, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Quesada’s RST video looks so much nicer than the one in “Clerks.”
Wes GRogan
July 11, 2012 at 3:11 pm
I love that Marvel Team Up is apparently one of the films in the adult section.
Alex
July 11, 2012 at 3:25 pm
I remember Daredevil was late a few times, but nobody cared it they liked it so much they could wait an extra month or two. Also, they included they had Chapter One origin for another character in it and the same villian turned up alive in another comic. Well, you take the good with the bad I suppose.
sandwich eater
July 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm
I’m confused as to why Matt Murdock would go to a video rental place in the first place (the fact that he went to one makes the story seem dated.)
phred
July 11, 2012 at 5:25 pm
Wes- I’m sure ‘Giant Size Man Thing’ and ‘Marvel Two on One’ are in there too.
Ortiz
July 11, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Marv is in both tavern pages, funny thing is I recognized first Marv than Jesse Custer.
Peace.
Dalarsco
July 11, 2012 at 10:33 pm
Was the scene with Echo in the theater a flashback? That movie was released in 1995, and the comic came out in 2000. I guess it could have been a theater that shows older films, but in the age of home video it’s odd that you would see something that relatively new at an old movies theater. Dogma, released in 1999, would have made more sense since it would have been in the cheap theaters in 2000. Also, it’s thematically related to Daredevil as a film all about Catholic guilt and the application of religion.
Valentijn
July 12, 2012 at 1:31 am
Dalarsco – not a flashback scene and it crossed my mind as well, but I suppose that Mack & Quesada couldn’t resist the reference to Stan Lee..!
wil
July 12, 2012 at 1:41 am
I like the poster for a fictional Punisher movie starring Sylvester Stallone in the video shop
Ha
July 12, 2012 at 3:37 am
Yeah, Marv is in the first panel, then beaten up and on the ground in the second!
XavierQuinze
July 12, 2012 at 4:47 am
More easter eggs on buzzcomics, it’s in french but it’s easy to understand
http://www.buzzcomics.net./showpost.php?p=1263204&postcount=2
Frank_Black
July 12, 2012 at 7:04 am
That is Manute not Marv beat up in the second panel of the Ennis bar. He was the massive Valet.
Sandra
July 13, 2012 at 11:58 pm
How can he read the “printing impression” (on a full color print) through the plastic? Printing doesn’t work like that!
The first arc had tons of easter eggs’ too, Who Watches the Watchmen was scribbled on walls
Leandro263
July 21, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Loved that in the second Ennis Tavern panel, you can almost miss Marv ko’ed on the ground. Quesada’s Daredevil run was filled with these! I remember a flashback scene of Mysterio in his lab where you can see various f/x items, among them, there are latex masks of Jay and Bob…
Rock Golf
August 10, 2012 at 8:36 pm
@WesGRogan: I noticed that too. I guess they couldn’t get away with Giant-Sized Man Thing as a title.
Chen
August 29, 2012 at 6:46 am
By the way, next to Marv/Manute in the second panel is Weevil, a bit character from Marv’s foray into Kadie’s.