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ratcreature) wrote2007-06-08 10:55 pm
ratcreature) wrote2007-06-08 10:55 pm
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reading yet more Daredevil
Sorry about the deluge of Daredevil posts, but since I'm now caught up with the series that should die down again.
So now I've read The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson (issue #88), The Devil Takes A Ride (issues #89-93), Our Love Story (issue #94) and the first two parts of To The Devil, His Due (issues #95-96). I haven't been to my store recently to get #97 yet, which I think is out already, so please don't spoil me in comments.
I didn't care much for the reveal that Vanessa Fisk was behind all the recent manipulations out of revenge, mostly because it's that typical comic book thing where someone from ages ago who didn't make an appearance for a long time and whom you had all but forgotten is suddenly "revealed" to have been pulling the strings from behind the scenes all along. Also that I found it kind of incomprehensible that Matt helped Wilson Fisk get out of prison after all. But I'm glad the secret identity thing is finally over. I mean, I liked the story line and the Matt angst, but it went on for a long time.
And I thought pheromone-girl (I forgot her name, the woman whom Vanessa hired to trick Matt as damsel in distress) reminding him of Karen to add additional doubt to his relationship with Milla was a stupid idea. I like Matt/Milla, and frankly it is angsty enough already without him having even more vivid flashbacks to murdered ex-girlfriends, so I found myself annoyed at their relationship angst. I mean, it would be a nice change of pace if Matt had a brief interlude of happy romance every once in a while. Or he could just give up and get together with Foggy. *g*
Anyway, despite liking Milla in general I was pretty bored by the love story interlude because of the OTT angst. Actually not even by the angst, I mean I like that or I wouldn't go for Daredevil's kind of melodrama, but by the angst being all more or less one long internal angst monologue, rather than it being just inferred during regular events and action, and maybe just highlighted with a few moments.
So far I like the mystery they are setting up in the current story, and I'm curious what's going on with Melvin and those crazy suicide robbers, but I'm wary of the upcoming involvement of pheromone-girl, right, Lily was her name, because I wasn't fond of her the last time she appeared.
So now I've read The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson (issue #88), The Devil Takes A Ride (issues #89-93), Our Love Story (issue #94) and the first two parts of To The Devil, His Due (issues #95-96). I haven't been to my store recently to get #97 yet, which I think is out already, so please don't spoil me in comments.
I didn't care much for the reveal that Vanessa Fisk was behind all the recent manipulations out of revenge, mostly because it's that typical comic book thing where someone from ages ago who didn't make an appearance for a long time and whom you had all but forgotten is suddenly "revealed" to have been pulling the strings from behind the scenes all along. Also that I found it kind of incomprehensible that Matt helped Wilson Fisk get out of prison after all. But I'm glad the secret identity thing is finally over. I mean, I liked the story line and the Matt angst, but it went on for a long time.
And I thought pheromone-girl (I forgot her name, the woman whom Vanessa hired to trick Matt as damsel in distress) reminding him of Karen to add additional doubt to his relationship with Milla was a stupid idea. I like Matt/Milla, and frankly it is angsty enough already without him having even more vivid flashbacks to murdered ex-girlfriends, so I found myself annoyed at their relationship angst. I mean, it would be a nice change of pace if Matt had a brief interlude of happy romance every once in a while. Or he could just give up and get together with Foggy. *g*
Anyway, despite liking Milla in general I was pretty bored by the love story interlude because of the OTT angst. Actually not even by the angst, I mean I like that or I wouldn't go for Daredevil's kind of melodrama, but by the angst being all more or less one long internal angst monologue, rather than it being just inferred during regular events and action, and maybe just highlighted with a few moments.
So far I like the mystery they are setting up in the current story, and I'm curious what's going on with Melvin and those crazy suicide robbers, but I'm wary of the upcoming involvement of pheromone-girl, right, Lily was her name, because I wasn't fond of her the last time she appeared.