One of these days, I'm going to try to catch up on reviews of the current ongoing Daredevil book (it'll probably be as a video). And, when I get some time this weekend, I want to do a post detailing Daredevil's many encounters with Bullseye. However, in search of a topic for a slightly less ambitious post to start the week, I turned to Facebook to ask TOMP's followers for ideas. One idea was put forth about a science post on Matt's kinesthetic abilities. Of course, this is a great idea, but one I'll be covering in the book. When I get to that chapter (I'm currently busy writing about the "radar"), I'd be happy to put together a digest for the site. The other suggestion, endorsed by two people, was to write a little something about Matt's … [Read more...]
Entering Shadowland: A guide to Daredevil #111-#507
[toc] Come July, we'll officially be in Shadowland territory, and with the most recent arc Left Hand Path having come to a close, I thought this would be the perfect time to put together a little - or not so little - primer for new or forgetful Daredevil readers. Since the current events in Daredevil go all the way back to Daredevil #111, with the introduction of Lady Bullseye, that seemed like the best place to start this issue by issue recap which takes us to the end of Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's run, with the anniversary issue Daredevil #500 (which followed Daredevil #119 and reverted to the original numbering), and into the first issues by the current creative team of Andy Diggle and Roberto de la Torre. The latter have recently … [Read more...]
Newspapers and the blind superheroes who read them
A strange post perhaps, but the idea for this one came about in the aftemath of the debate on why Matt apparently subscribes to the print edition of the morning paper and whether this endangers his extremely fragile secret identity. And, since this blog discusses everything and anything Daredevil-related, no matter how obscure, I decided that this topic would be worthy of its own entry. I have no idea why people have suddenly noticed this since it's hardly a new phenomenon. All I can say is that it's been talked about quite a bit on message boards and in the occasional blog post. Maybe it's the new and returning readers that decided that Daredevil #111 was the perfect jumping on point who have raised a collective eyebrow. Below we'll look … [Read more...]
Review: Daredevil #111 (8.0/10)
You know the writer has thrown you for a loop when the big talking point of the issue isn't the big talking point of the issue. What everyone should be talking about is the introduction of Lady Bullseye, and yes, people are talking about that, but the big discussion on the messageboards and in the blogosphere is about the new wrinkle in Matt's personal life and what this does and doesn't say about the character. I will get to that later, and hide it under a cut, but I feel I should warn people that this time around, almost every review for #111 you see in the sidebar will have spoilers in it. The event taking place is of the kind of magnitude that avoiding it means you can barely talk about the issue at all.Having said that, let's first … [Read more...]
