Daredevil by Frank Miller & Klaus Jason Omnibus (New Printing)

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Aside from the obvious dark tones, Miller also incorporated some light elements, like the running joke of Daredevil always crossing paths with Turk, and wrecking the bar’s front window (he should definitely be included in the series, if he’s not in it yet) (yeah, I haven’t seen the DD series yet). Miller sets forth the reasonings for Matt Murdoch's love of Elektra, why Bullseye is an arch nemesis (even in light of the Kingpin's constant control of the underworld), the history of Daredevil's mentor Stick and provides for Elektra's death and resurrection. Anyhow, as you can see from the image above, Deedee's cultural insensitivity pays in a pivot moment, so all's well what ends well. While the first few stories here showcase a more fun side of Daredevil and some cool moments with the hulk, they feel very typical superheroish. The template was to have the hero meet the villain and for the villain to go to jail after a bit of a romp.

Pero bueno volviendo a lo que tenemos entre manos, nos encontramos con grandes historias como el retorno al crimen de Kingpin, la propia Elektra, la Mano, los ninjas blancos, Stick, Viuda Negra, Punisher, Bullseye y el gran final demoledor de la ruleta rusa donde en unas pocas paginas se deconstruye (toma ahí) todo el genero de los superheroes.My criticism of his run lies solely with the fact that he wasn’t also providing the story for these issues. Now, in the late 70’s, Daredevil has only been in publication for about 15 years, and at an erratic intervals (as written in the Introduction of this book). Pero ya entrando en el aspecto técnico, lo que realmente destaca de la etapa de Frank Miller en Daredevil, lo que marcó el mundo del cómic en los años posteriores, es el estilo del dibujo y lo bien que se complementaban dibujante y entintador, Miller planteando las páginas y haciendo los bocetos y Janson dando detalle y profundidad al dibujo. Of course, 1980 Marvel were never going to get away with Sin City levels of maturity, although one could always have hoped, yet for al the talk of street level grit and grounded storytelling, there was still a little too much of the silver age tainting this run, at least early on, before Miller found his feet when he started writing it, anyway.

You can still figure out what the characters are saying and those missing words are very few (two to three words in the whole book IIRC).

But, and it's a big but, unlike many of these omnibus journeys, this one is pretty much fascinating and entertaining from the word go. Stories that are intricately connected to the loose story threads that were made before Miller wrote on the book and he ties those ends up beautifully in the end. He’s got it all, and just in the right amount: Supernatural skills that essentially fall short compared to the set of skills he’s acquired through hard work and discipline, yet enough hot-headedness to screw up said hard work and discipline, a childhood trauma on top of another childhood trauma, plenty of brooding to last him five lifetimes and enough moral ambiguousness to save him from being disgustingly good. I mezi jeho čísly jsou celkem znatelné kvalitativní výkyvy - snad vše s Elektrou je super, druhé hledání Sticka naopak dost špatné. Characterization is also a bit mixed for me with some characters being rather one dimensional (Foggy, Bullseye) while others are more well rounded or intriguing.