Comments on: Conflicting continuities – A look at Daredevil canon

By: Bee Clayton

Bee Clayton — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:58:44 +0000

Nice monologue speech by Bendis but it raises a question for me.

His father dies and he is left ‘orphaned’…..so who took care of him between Jack’s death and graduating from law school? Was he ever placed in a foster home? Or was he just referring to his parents being dead with the orphaned comment? (Which is strange to say if he believes [or going by Smith, he knows] that his mother is alive)

By: Primewax

Primewax — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:15:13 +0000

So basically, Matt had his accident as a teen, his dad was killed and as such Matt decided to devote himself to justice. As long as I know this, I’m good right? Hehe.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:03:45 +0000

Hey, Russel! I’m glad you like the site and thank you for commenting. To answer your questions:

1) There already are lists out there that attempt to list all appearances of not only Daredevil but other characters as well. However, I will try to find the better resources and link them.

2) I have seen the documentaries (most of them anyway), on human echolocation and the like. This is an area that really interests me a great deal, and I have plans to start writing “The Science of Daredevil” one of these days (if I can’t get it published, I’ll just release it for free online). But that little project is still in the planning stages. Either way, I’ve done quite a bit of research on these things, and I think it’s amazing. I might touch on this when I get to the end of my History of the radar sense series where I finally get to insert some of my own opinions.

3) I’m a big fan of digital comics and a subscriber to Marvel Digital Comics. It’s not a great solution (yet), but I look forward to more and more things becoming available in digital format, preferably for downloading onto your own computer.

By: Russell Kobaly

Russell Kobaly — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:43:00 +0000

Hi, I have been really digging your site; I have a couple of questions. You wrote that you read every DD book and his guest appearance on other books, can you set up a chronology of his books and guest appearances. Have you seen the documentary on TLC about blind people in real life using radar by clicking their tongue, kind of like DD. What do think of digital comics, granted, it better to hold an issue in your hand, but it does have potential for other benefits. To be able to read archives without going broke, to be able to read complete runs (when marvel puts them on), and plus there is a untapped possibility of bonus features like on DVD, where writers and artists can write commentaries about their work.

By: Frangelo

Frangelo — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:20:47 +0000

^^^
In Wolverine: Enemy of the State, Wolverine said Matt got his powers when he was 12 years old and he's been blind for 20 years…so that makes him 32 years old?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:29:40 +0000

In the movie, Matt says, while prepared to kill Kingpi:’I've been waiting for this day since I was 12′

By: Gloria

Gloria — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:42:00 +0000

Much as I love Miller’s MWF mini, I must say that I personally prefer the original continuity at many points.

To me, a barely pubescent Matt loosing his father, and having to fight his way up, without a penny on his pockets, until he makes it to Law Achool, is a bit of over-angsting a character which, in teh original story, had already a lot of issues to fight against. To me the “Matt lost his father as he was nearing graduation” of the classic continuity makes more sense, and (extra point as far as I am concerned) turns room-mate Foggy into some kind of brother, someone who really cares about his friend Matt after his father’s death, rather than the clumsy room-mate that Ubermensch Matt in MWF “adopts” as a protegé aout of pity. Yes, I’m definitely with Brubaker when he pictures Foggy attempting to give an orphaned Matt some comfort at the Morgue.

Also, daddy Jack is supposed to have won some money is the last months of his life, so I don’t see that Matt was left exactly a pennyless orphan, as the MWF continuity line suggests

By: dmstarz

dmstarz — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:00 +0000

I read the first issue recently and Matt was eight in 1950, which would mean that his dad would have died in 1957 or 1958.

We have to take all this with a pinch of salt of course as Matt is about 35-40, at a guess in today’s comics.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:17:00 +0000

Interesting post and nice choice of pictures. Those are exactly those I think of when I try to figure out how past continuity is interpreted by modern authors.
Another interesting bit is from “the Devil in Cell-Block D”, part 2. In it, Matt imagines to talk to his dead father, accusing him of having forced him to be a bookworm while he was working as a mob enforcer.
This shows that Jack Murdock’s small-time criminal past is currently accepted as canon even though it has previously been shown only in Miller’s MWOF.

By: Ohara

Ohara — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:25:00 +0000

Hi Christine
Just to say – I adore this blog.
I’m still working my way through your posts (and feeling compelled to read every one of them). Keep it up. Thanks.