Stick
7/26/2004 9:24am,
Just got done reading the Marvel Knights: Daredevil run from 1998 to 2003: excellent stuff.
A lot of the art was very sketchy, dark, almost charcoal, my color blind eyes appreciate the dull tones ^_^ In particular all the art in the "Parts of a Hole" (echo story line, loved the crazy way every thing was laid out, nuts) and "Wake Up" (basically Ben Urich's story about an abused son of a "super-villain"). All very cutting edge work, not like any of the main stream stuff I see in X-men, Spider-man, or any of the DC crap. Felt much more like I was looking at works of art, there was one issue in particular that was visually fascinating; it had kind of been a challenge piece: no dialogue.
The stories were well done for the most part. Sure it sometimes got a little convoluted and carried away- damn you Kevin Smith!-, but for the most part it all carried together well. I loved how they would continually trudge out old and incredibly cheesy super villains from the early days of daredevil (the jester, owl, matador, leap frog, or stilt man anyone?) and use these guys that don't amount to much more than 2 dimensional jokes to get to something more important. I really enjoyed the story line where the "White Tiger" goes on trial and all the super heroes take the stand to defend his character and speak to the kind of person it takes to be a super hero, only to- hmmm, spoiler- have white tiger found- wrongfully I must add- guilty, him flip out, and get killed by the police in the ensuing chaos. I was looking at the trade paper back of "essential daredevil", issues from the 70's, the first 25 or so, not sure really; old stuff, painfully dated, it was hilarious to see that some of these guys were drug from the depths of cheesy 70's gag-villains and used so well despite their inherent lameness..... I feel like my writing level has degenerated to that of a 12 year old- "inherent lameness"?
Anywho, great stuff. Still need to find the stuff from the 80's, the original Elektra story line.
After several years of manga- quickly drawn stuff usually all by one person, which don't get me wrong, has its own charm and all- it's good to see something that really experiments with the art.
A lot of the art was very sketchy, dark, almost charcoal, my color blind eyes appreciate the dull tones ^_^ In particular all the art in the "Parts of a Hole" (echo story line, loved the crazy way every thing was laid out, nuts) and "Wake Up" (basically Ben Urich's story about an abused son of a "super-villain"). All very cutting edge work, not like any of the main stream stuff I see in X-men, Spider-man, or any of the DC crap. Felt much more like I was looking at works of art, there was one issue in particular that was visually fascinating; it had kind of been a challenge piece: no dialogue.
The stories were well done for the most part. Sure it sometimes got a little convoluted and carried away- damn you Kevin Smith!-, but for the most part it all carried together well. I loved how they would continually trudge out old and incredibly cheesy super villains from the early days of daredevil (the jester, owl, matador, leap frog, or stilt man anyone?) and use these guys that don't amount to much more than 2 dimensional jokes to get to something more important. I really enjoyed the story line where the "White Tiger" goes on trial and all the super heroes take the stand to defend his character and speak to the kind of person it takes to be a super hero, only to- hmmm, spoiler- have white tiger found- wrongfully I must add- guilty, him flip out, and get killed by the police in the ensuing chaos. I was looking at the trade paper back of "essential daredevil", issues from the 70's, the first 25 or so, not sure really; old stuff, painfully dated, it was hilarious to see that some of these guys were drug from the depths of cheesy 70's gag-villains and used so well despite their inherent lameness..... I feel like my writing level has degenerated to that of a 12 year old- "inherent lameness"?
Anywho, great stuff. Still need to find the stuff from the 80's, the original Elektra story line.
After several years of manga- quickly drawn stuff usually all by one person, which don't get me wrong, has its own charm and all- it's good to see something that really experiments with the art.