Daredevil Storytime

>>87873018
Thank you

>>87872868
DUDE TRACING LMAO
Fuck Mack the Hack

>>87872868
is quesada uncredited in this? some pages look absolutely like him

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>>87873561
It's just Mack aping Quesada's style

You can already see certain annoying ticks of Bendis start to pop up here >>87873096. Though on the whole this is much better than Bendis' later output, albeit I suspect the art also carries the writing a lot.

>>87872960
The story and art blends very nice. The stuttering thing Bendis does a lot is starting to be born

I started reading Daredevil when Kevin Smith was given the helm. I've been reading since and have gone backward from there, and am surprised at how the book seems to have been consistently well-written for decades. Yes I'm lumping the Bendis run into the good stuff. Guy can't write team books for crap but his solo street-level stuff is gold.

Shadowland is kind of a shit smear on that streak but damn, it's mostly good stuff over the years.

>>87874878

aww shee-it, the real ride starts here

>>87872982
was it autism?

>>87872868
Nice

Wish someone would Storytime Miller's run as well

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I'll call it on this one for today. Tomorrow, more shit happens

>>87873075
I like this art a lot

>>87874467

Shadowland is generally considered a weakpoint because of editorial chickening out.

I believe Diggle has said in the past that the demon possession thing was a last minute twist because how else were they going to redeem Matt going full villain?

but yea, besides a little bit in the 90s (everyone shits on armored DD, but I enjoyed it), Daredevil has been one of the most consistently good books since at least the early-to-mid 80s.

>>87873666
The art is really the only thing saving this story in particular. This Bendis is just as bad as current Bendis, it just gets lumped together with the rest of the run.

>>87876959
Thanks Op

I know i might get blasted for saying this, but aside from the coolness factor of some of the dialogue, this story, at least structurally, was really weak. We had what amounted to the first act spread out over four issues, and told non-linearly (which is really unnecessary, considering we already know what happened and there is no mystery to carry us along). Then we have the second act framed into 1 1/2 issues with the climax being glossed over in the last few pages.

Just saying, looking back at this, and having read a lot of Daredevil since hen, this story could have been told in a much simpler, much shorter manner, and it wouldn't have changed much.

>>87878855
>this story could have been told in a much simpler, much shorter manner, and it wouldn't have changed much.
That's a criticism that I think can be leveled at almost all of Bendis' work. While I do enjoy his DD it still contains many of his flaws as a writer

>>87879588
Most definitely. I like a lot of the ideas he used in his run (though I think he relies on the Kingpin too much, but most Daredevil writers fall prey to that too).

It's just that it's 60 goddamn issues long, and I breezed through the whole thing in an afternoon with barely anything happening. Lots of talking, whole issues of talking, with the plot finally kicking in in the arcs final 2 issues. The only arcs which seemed to not do this were the White Tiger court case, and the Demon possession (which didn't go anywhere at all).

I'm gonna guess he's lauded due to some of this top notch art