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AAlgar Addict

Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 5562 Location: Up in your crawlspace.
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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...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!  _________________
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Jamie Howdeshell Senior Member
Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 1638 Location: standing in the center of town, sobbing, as 'superman' flies into space to intercept the nuke...
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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did you bring some fucking dip!!??!! Huh???!! HUH!!??
lousy late-party-show-uppers and their leeching ways.....
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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AAlgar Addict

Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 5562 Location: Up in your crawlspace.
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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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Michael_Goodman Senior Member

Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 1923 Location: Clearwater, FL
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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See what you miss when you spend all your time making genious computer games? |
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shadow22820 Junior Member

Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 491
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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. _________________ "And as sure as God made little green apples....I will kill Bill." |
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Michael_Goodman Senior Member

Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 1923 Location: Clearwater, FL
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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oh geez, the third time today its gonna happen..
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AAlgar Addict

Joined: 20 Nov 2003 Posts: 5562 Location: Up in your crawlspace.
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Posted: Aug 09, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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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sleep Veteran

Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 3418 Location: Rome in the 50s
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 3:03 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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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JohnnyHall3 Veteran
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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. _________________ Live and Direct from Naptown |
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JimboTheFish Senior Member

Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 1272 Location: Taejon, South Korea
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 3:57 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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.
R _________________ Now with twice the sad monkey!
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MACK! Enthusiast
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 4:16 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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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Andrewj Veteran

Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 2604 Location: alexandria, va
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 4:34 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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. _________________ "If everything is under control, you are going too slow."
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MACK! Enthusiast
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 4:44 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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wow, thanks. _________________ BENDIS!
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Andrewj Veteran

Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 2604 Location: alexandria, va
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Posted: Aug 10, 2004 5:04 am Post subject: Re: I just read Bendis' entire DD run... |
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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! _________________ "If everything is under control, you are going too slow."
- Mario Andretti (1940-) |
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