Like so many others, I was a huge fan of the first season of the Netflix series Daredevil. I decided that the time had come to look at some source material. In what could easily become season three of the series, Karen Page, Matt Murdock’s former legal secretary and ex-girlfriend is down on her luck in Mexico. After a failed porn career, she’s now a heroin junkie and she sells Matt’s secret identity as Daredevil for her next fix. The name falls into criminal mastermind […]
I Told My Visually-Impaired Father That He Should Consider Dressing as Daredevil for Halloween, But He Didn’t Like That
I have this problem. The problem is that I always want to get into more comic books but never know where to start (bruh, you know people who can probably help you with this). But I saw that this edition of Daredevil said “Volume 1” on it so thought that hey, maybe that would be a good place to start. What I realize is that this was the first run of Frank Miller at the helm for the character (the first half of the volume […]
Ennui over too many comic-book characters is a thing, I guess.
After the intriguing revisit to Gotham City in The Dark Knight Returns, I wondered what sort of sequel The Dark Knight Strikes Again would be. As it turns out, the direct sequel aspect is quickly overshadowed by the expanding of the Justice League World. It’s not a world I’m familiar with, so I soon found my (admittedly limited) knowledge of the Justice League swamped after cursory characters from movies and TV shows I’d seen. It’s not a bad thing, per se, but I still consider […]
A Dark Knight returns.
I’m at best a tourist of Marvel and DC Comics–and by that, I mean my general exposure happens through whatever mainstream movie or TV series is occurring at the moment. Sorry guys, I’m not really a nerd. 🙁 I watched the Tim Burton Batman film and then gave up on the horrific Batman and Robin (nipples on the Batsuit? really?). But I re-entered the Batman world when Christopher Nolan came out with his Dark Knight trilogy, which I enjoyed immensely. I’ve been meaning to read […]
Superhero Noir
Prior to the recent Netflix series starring the delightful Charlie Cox, my only exposure to the character of Daredevil was the truly awful Ben Affleck movie. That movie probably set back the superhero/comic book movie genre by a few years, yeeee. Anyways, the series is just excellent, and so I decided to pick up this Frank Miller trade paperback from the 90s, which expands upon Daredevil’s origin story. I have to admit, I was a bit cynical about it, because Frank Miller gets a lot […]
Sin City: The Hard Goodbye – Review #11 for AamilTheCamel
A visual treat and a complete entertainer.