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Posts tagged "John Romita"
Daredevil and the big cats who attack him

Daredevil and the big cats who attack him

Before I get to anything else, I want to tell you about an interview that the law blog Abnormal Use did with Mark Waid earlier today, with a particular focus on Matt’s job as a lawyer. The interview also contains spoilers for Daredevil #4 which is due out in stores tomorrow, though these are clearly...

Wait, you have what in your glove?!

Silver Age Daredevil was something of a blind MacGyver in tights. He made his own stuff, whether it was sewing his own costume (by hand, no less) or inserting micro-circuitry into his billy club. However, the panel below, from Daredevil #19, by Stan Lee and John Romita, makes me worry for his safety. If he’s...

Before there was ninjutsu, there was yoga

Matt Murdock is nothing if not dedicated to his craft. Low-powered and forced to rely mostly on hard-earned fighting skills, he can’t afford not to learn from past battles and strive to constantly improve himself. In this panel below on the left, from Daredevil #18, decades before the ninja training with Stick and all the...

A history of the radar sense #2

Well, it’s been a while since the first installment of this series, that looks at how Daredevil’s consistently hard to pin down radar sense has been imagined over the years. With this chapter, we cover issues from the early teens all the way through Roy Thomas’s run, using relatively few panels. Because after the first...

Wacky power #7 – Speedreading

Okay, you know all those websites that supposedly teach you how to read at incredible speed? They ususally focus on things like cutting down on sub-vocalizations (the hearing of the words you’re reading in your head) in order to limit the time it takes for the brain to process the written word. Little do they...