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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:00 pm    Post subject: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

...this weekend, in three sittings (two days). WOW.

I've read it off and on for the last year or so, but I always catch it at the wrong time... like the story I'm reading will end in the middle of an arc. So I wanted to wait till I had several saved up and read them all at once. Then I kinda forgot about them.

Well, I remembered this weekend, and I started with the first Bendis trade... and I worked my way up to #61. HOLY CRAP that's some good writing. It's this unbelievable blend of crime, courtroom and superhero drama. He's doing things with this character that no one's ever thought to do with a superhero before, and transformed DD (in my mind anyway) from a second-tier Marvel wannabe to a headliner on the level of Spidey.

But of course, you all knew this already. Sometimes I show up to the party late. But hey, at least I showed up! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:20 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

did you bring some fucking dip!!??!! Huh???!! HUH!!??

lousy late-party-show-uppers and their leeching ways.....

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i need to read it all in one sitting too. that is always so much fun. almost better than the actual first time reading it since there isn't all that time between each issue and one's attention isn't scattered across 20 other titles and your normal life.
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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:22 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

Jamie Howdeshell wrote:
i need to read it all in one sitting too. that is always so much fun. almost better than the actual first time reading it since there isn't all that time between each issue and one's attention isn't scattered across 20 other titles and your normal life.


It really is. Some books are just better enjoyed this way. My weekly pile is anywhere from 8 to 15 books, and something special like this doesn't deserve to get lost in the shuffle like that.
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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

See what you miss when you spend all your time making genious computer games?
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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:24 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

Daredevil is my favorite book on the market. Except for that Mack run in the middle of Bendis' run, which sucked hard. during that time Supreme Power was my favorite book.
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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:26 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

oh geez, the third time today its gonna happen..

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PostPosted: Aug 09, 2004 10:26 pm    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

shadow22820 wrote:
Daredevil is my favorite book on the market. Except for that Mack run in the middle of Bendis' run, which sucked hard. during that time Supreme Power was my favorite book.


I wouldn't say Mack's run sucked at all. It wasn't my cup of tea, but I cannot deny the man's talent. Plus, it made for a pretty cool effect, storytelling-wise, to have a "break" and then return to the story a year later.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 3:03 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

shadow22820 wrote:
Daredevil is my favorite book on the market. Except for that Mack run in the middle of Bendis' run, which sucked hard.

I thought it was great. I also read (past tense) most of it in one sitting, which I think made it a somewhat better read (noun) than it might have been individually. That's how I feel about Bendis's and Maleev's Daredevil also, having always felt kind of disappointed in the random single DD issues of theirs that I've purchased. But when I read (present tense) those issues in hardcover form, I think they really meld much better.

To each her/his own...
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 3:13 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

Kingpin's return was some of the most tense and exhilirating reading I've ever experienced in the medium.

Bendis! is the man, and this is my favorite book that he writes. Clearly a highwater mark for the character.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 3:57 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

I came a little late too. I think I first picked up issue 42, then went back and got everything he had done up to that point. That was an incredible sitting just then, I can't even imagine reading everything up until now that close together. It must have been a surreal couple of days with a lot of "I can't believe Daredevil can be this good" saying.

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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 4:16 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

Thanks for the kind words to those that liked my Echo run and all of my three DD runs.

I always appreciate you mentiong it.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 4:34 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

Hey mack if you're still reading this, see if you can get your echo arcs into one big Hard cover. It might be kinda hard because the first story is in the first HC but I think it would work really well.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 4:44 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

I don't think that will happen because my first arc "Parts of a Hole" is already in hardcover.

But thanks for the interest.

What is in the plans is to collect Mine and Bendis' 4 issue DD: WAKE UP story with my 5 issue ECHO story.

I think that will be a very nice collection, and I'm looking forward to it, as is Brian.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 4:44 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

wow, thanks.
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PostPosted: Aug 10, 2004 5:04 am    Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... Reply with quote

MACK! wrote:
I don't think that will happen because my first arc "Parts of a Hole" is already in hardcover.

But thanks for the interest.

What is in the plans is to collect Mine and Bendis' 4 issue DD: WAKE UP story with my 5 issue ECHO story.

I think that will be a very nice collection, and I'm looking forward to it, as is Brian.


I forgot that the Urich story wasn't in HC! I'm looking forward to it!
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