Daredevil Storytime (Part 2)

Welcome back Anons! Last time, OP messed up on where Bendis's run started and we read The Adventures of Ben Urich, featuring Daredevil.

Today, maybe our main character will actually show up in his own book.

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Before anyone asks, I did see the Iron Fist trailer. Most relevant thing is the date, meaning we may NOT be finished with these threads by the time the show starts.

In case you're wondering what's the deal with Fisk's glasses, he's blind now. After Echo found out he manipulated her into trying to kill Daredevil, she blinded him.

>some random gangster tries to start shit with the freaking Kingpin

Predictions on how poorly this ends for him?

>stabbing the Kingpin in front of all his guys

Oh no, they're ALL stabbing him.
All I can think of is "What if Fisk falls on one of them? Will they try and get him off them, or just give him up as a lost cause?"

And Bendis's trend of shitting on pre-existing villains begins.

>two spreads within ten pages

So far, we've got two pages of Matt in a row, more than the last arc.

>"These are the facts of this case."

Was Bendis involved in the Netflix show at all, or did they just like this line?

And a THIRD spread in one issue!

FOUR! Can we go for five?

...

So... Nitro? Pretty sure he has to reform himself after he explodes, but whatever.

Not even gonna check if the fat guy on top of Foggy is okay?

>"I was the target. Said my name."

He was literally the one guy who DIDN'T say your name when addressing you on that page.

Why is there only one eye on that kid's smiley face?

Okay, guess it ISN'T Nitro.

Dude, you just blew up a crowded area, sending cars flying, in MARVEL NEW YORK! What did you THINK was going to happen?

Well, at least Mack's gone. That's something.

I wouldn't say this is Bendis shitting on the Kingpin, more like when a writer wants to start their run with a bang they take out of commission the big bad to show they mean business, like how Morrison's Batman starts with the Joker getting shot in the fucking face and being taken out of the picture for a few issues.

Did they change his clothes and stab him again, or did Bendis forgot HIS LAST DAMN ISSUE?

What's that? You wanted some Bendisspeak, Anons? HERE YOU GO!

True, I just hoped that would get SOMEONE to respond. Also, "Hi X-user!"

By the way Anons, this was back during Busiek's run of Avengers, before Bendis ruined Scarlet Witch.

If this were Spider-Man, they would've already shot at him.

Holy shit, he really did shoot at him!

>"That man you just pulled your gun on is the only thing keeping this city from turning into a living Hell on Earth".

That already happened, and he was basically useless for that.

Speaking of, X-user, WEN INFERNO

Wait, that WAS Nitro? Dude's never had a time limit on his powers before. Besides, he's fought WAY tougher guys than Daredevil, and didn't beg for his life then.

Matt, no he didn't. He called you "counselor".
For all you know, he was bought by the person you're up against in court.

Hi dude. Man, I really shouldn't have stayed awake for your storytime last night haha, although I'm still on vacation so

This whole sequence with the rookie and the experienced cop feels like a DKR reference/rip-off. Which one it really is I can't tell because it's Bendis.

>WEN INFERNO
That's volume... six I want to say? I'm heavily considering running all of it and not just the X-related tie-ins. Eh, I'll just run a poll and let people decide.

Like I said, Kingpin's still blind.

Okay, I vaguely remember skimming over some Daredevil, and wasn't Momma Nelson skinny and had a completely different hair style?

I have no idea who this woman is, but I think she ATE his mom.

I don't blame you for not being up and reading Bendis in the middle of the night. Just because I have nothing better to do doesn't mean I assume nobody else does.

>"Who is that?"
>"I don't know."
>"You don't-"
>"I can't see who you're pointing to."

Unlike most Bendis-speak, this is pretty funny.

But man, that's like, not stereotypical enough!

>"Who gives a fuck about a guy in tights?"

How do people with this attitude SURVIVE in the Marvel Universe? I know he's from Jersey, where the only superhero they have was created after this, but come on!

Does... does Bendis think Turk is dead? Wait, WAS he dead, and someone brought back their favorite comic relief character?

I looked it up, according to the wiki, that isn't her. I checked her last appearance before that, and that looks nothing like her.

Who the fuck IS that?

Who's on that computer screen in the third panel? All I can make out is x's on her tits and shoulder length hair.

Remember the "Nuff Said" comics, Anons? Where every writer was challenged to write a book with no words, and I took the time to joke about Bendis doing one?

Well, he did.

Presumably this sign doesn't count, since that's always been there.

The hell is he looking for? Last I checked, Matt's smell isn't good enough to differentiate scents between people, like Wolverine's can.

How did he get this past a premise of "no words"?

According to Comic Vine he died in an issue of Punisher: War Zone. I've never been big on Frank so I had no idea.

Mutie pr0n, obvs.

Resurrection aside, the same guy has killed Matt Murdock's two most well known love interests. Who else has actually SUCCEEDED at that?

So that's not just an obscure 90's mutant I don't recognize, got it.

Do you really not keep a side-arm for protection in situations like this? You're not gonna snipe him if he knows where you are, man.

And boot to the head.

My favorite 'Nuff Said issues were NXM, X-Force, and Avengers. Great stuff.

/k/, is it possible to break whatever kind of rifle this is that easily?

Oh wait, he does have sidearms. He's just using them after too late.

Matt, you're only holding onto him by his jacket. Dude could slip out fairly easily before you get any info.

I never read X-Force's, and I can't remember what NXM was (pretty sure it was Genosha getting Genosha'd though, which was a good issue), but I also liked Thunderbolts and Captain Marvel.

Bendis, seriously, using letters is cheating.

Boomerang? The fuck are you wearing?!

>"DORMAMMU, HELP!"

Seriously, what's with the trenchcoat here?

And that is the face of a man who just shit himself in the middle of a beating.

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>I never read X-Force's
Dude! You're breaking my heart right now! Go read that shit ASAP
>and I can't remember what NXM was (pretty sure it was Genosha getting Genosha'd though, which was a good issue)
Nah, it was the issue were Cassandra Nova leaves the Prof in a coma inside her body so Jean and Emma have to venture inside Nova's mind to rescue him

Bullseye, the fuck is the deal with that hat? You're not freaking Kung Lao!

Eh, I don't have to leave for a few hours. Let's try and get through... what do you say, two more issues?

Do you have any IDEA the size of my reading backlog? I've got ALL of Doctor Strange, ALL of Man-Thing, then I'm gonna start reading LoSH/L.E.G.I.O.N. so I don't dissapoint JSAnon anymore, and that's just what I've taken off from my hard drive!
Besides, you'll get to it eventually.

Why do you have a pool AND lakefront property?

Normally I'd whine about such blatant copy-pasting here, but I think it's intentional this time, as opposed to "Jessica Jones is bored listening to another freaking client".

Vanessa's role in the comics was basically as a moralizing role for Fisk. Unlike in the Netflix show, where he turned her towards darkness, abit unintentionally, in the comics he would do anything to keep her safe, even if it meant giving up crime. In Miller's run, the only reason he got back into things was because he thought she was murdered.

Remember this, it'll hurt later.

>"Your husband gave clear instructions to never involve you."

Like I said, this has been part of her character for a while.

I'm guessing that last flashback with this guy was in Chicago, otherwise Bendis is forgetting something ELSE he wrote.

Blind or not, he could literally crush your head between his hands, so I'd watch it if I were you.

For those of you who haven't read Born Again (seriously, read Frank Miller's Daredevil), Kingpin knows who Daredevil really is, and has for years at this point.

Sure thing dude, got nothing better to do anyway.

>Besides, you'll get to it eventually.
In god-knows-how-many years, yeah!

>"If I say no one touches the lawyer! NO ONE touches the lawyer!"

And we all know how this went...

And, just in case you forgot, there's a price on his head anyway.

Those faces do NOT say "fear".

Does "what's in it for me?" work on superheroes ever? HAS it ever?

>he could literally crush your head between his hands
Heh.

Look at it this way, unlike me, you've got a long time until you get to Bendis, or worse.

That's a closer shot of Kingpin's face than I EVER want to see again.

No, Bendis, that was NOT a request asking for a bigger shot of his face!

I guess pulling a Batman is a lot easier when the other guy can't see.

Can you IMAGINE sitting in one tree for three weeks? I mean, I imagine he brought food and supplies with him, but I need a stretch after laying down for three HOURS.

Remember, we already know this guy betrays and gets all of Fisk's men to stab him, because Bendis opened on that.

Yeah, I'm both dreading and giddy over the idea of having to run fucking Schism, or AvX, or the current Inhumans shitshow. Actually, no, that last one is just plain dread.

In case you want to know where the whole "Everyone knows who Daredevil is" thing came from? It started in this run.

I don't know jack shit about Fisk's kid. He was never in any of the books I read.

Although I imagine this is something that would be unexpected from him earlier?

>the diamonds are black

Fucking hell, does NOBODY in Marvel actually play cards?

would be nice if it were real.

9 x 12 each, watercolor and stuff.

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DC was Dick Van Dyke’s 1960’s. It was The Flash, alter ego of handsome, earnest police scientist Barry Allen, and his reporter girlfriend Iris West, whose sharp, delicate features, Capri pants and hair ribbons made you swoon, but not lust. The lettering was clean, and the art, wide and open, imbued with the sense of Ivy League decorum and buttoned-down sensibilities.

Marvel, meanwhile, was Lenny Bruce. Beginning with the Fantastic Four in 1961, Mr. Lee and his crew created comics that tapped into the roiling social and sexual energies of the time. When the heroes weren’t fighting villains, they were battling their inner demons, unsympathetic cops or other superheroes.

As Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay , the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about two comic-book writers in the 1930’s, put it: “DC was part of the establishment. Marvel was different. When I was younger, I liked the heroes of DC because they seemed like parental figures. When I was older, I liked Marvel, because they seemed like they were my contemporaries.”

Mr. Quesada is convinced that some good old-fashioned gloves-off rivalry will be good for business. “I liked it when the two companies hated each other,” he said. “It made it better for the fans. You know, if you like DC, then you hated Marvel. If you like Marvel, then you hated DC.”

>>“What the fuck is DC anyway?” Mr. Quesada said, stoking the fires. “They’d be better off calling it AOL Comics. At least people know what AOL is. I mean, they have Batman and Superman, and they don’t know what to do with them. That’s like being a porn star with the biggest dick and you can’t get it up. What the fuck?” (Paul Levitz, DC’s president and publisher, declined to comment for this story through a spokesperson.)

Fuck You Quesada

Apparently "Goombah" is deslang for Italians. I didn't know that, because of the far more famous Goombas

Given how long it'll be until you get there, with all the spin-offs, it's possible the Inhumans push will be over by the time you get to that era, and you can laugh at it like how we laugh at the Clone Saga.

Ackchyually it started in the 90's, in Fall from Grace.

Ben, why would you light a SECOND smoke right in front of the guy who literally ripped the first one out of your mouth?

Ben, seriously, let it go.

>Given how long it'll be until you get there, with all the spin-offs, it's possible the Inhumans push will be over by the time you get to that era, and you can laugh at it like how we laugh at the Clone Saga.
Kek

And now you know how Matt's identity started being public knowledge. Junior here couldn't keep his mouth shut.

There's always been stories where the hero's identity gets almost revealed, but in this run, it's a big public thing that never really gets undone until Soule. At best we have early Waid where it's ust not news anymore, since he isn't publicly admitting it.

I miss the days where they were just vaguely cheeky about it.

One of my favorite bits was "What if various characters were the opposite genders."

It went as you'd expect, until the get to Wonder Man, where there's just a picture saying "Our distinguished competition has requested us to stop this joke now."

It could happen!

I don't know why, but this spread isn't formatted like a spread, and I can't be bothered to photoshop it right now.