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RatCreature ([info]ratcreature) wrote,
@ 2008-04-17 20:15:00

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Entry tags:comics, comics: reviews, daredevil, marvel, marvel: reviews, reviews

Daredevil: Without Fear (issues #100-105)
Well, at least Milla isn't dead, so that is something, but really the girlfriend storyline is kind of overdone with Daredevil.

I freely admit that part of why I like Daredevil is that its genre, besides superhero crime fighting, is more often than not what would be called "whump" in fanfic parlance: He just gets hurt over and over again, both physically and psychologically, and there is plenty of angst and so on. So I'm not really objecting that he seems to never get a break, but did it have to be by hurting his wife again and taking her out of the picture? Out of sight in a mental hospital with violent delusions is not really what I wished for Milla. I like her character.

Also a central key to the plot, that Matt apparently could work through this gas in a few hours, but for everyone else the effects are apparently forever, well, that didn't make a lot of sense to me. My best guess is that we are to assume that somehow his immunity is tied to his senses making him more resistant because he's more aware, iirc it was something like that with Lily Lucca's body chemistry, but still. I didn't find that very satisfying.

Cranston worked well as a really creepy villain for me though. Even though his prison guard date rape setup at the end sort of squicked me.


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[info]caia_comica
2008-04-18 01:55 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm not at all thrilled with the resolution to the Milla plotline, either. At least they could find NEW and ORIGINAL and less-problematic ways of torturing Matt, maybe? And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't especially like Milla, and didn't think she and Matt were at all well suited for each other, and was hoping for a (gasp!) non-traumatic break-up.

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[info]ratcreature
2008-04-18 02:08 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I'm no writer, so I'm not at all good at envisioning plots, but there have to be more creative options to torture Matt, if not totally new then at least something that hasn't been done in a while. Like I don't know, maybe a villain messing with his super senses so that he has to deal with being a regular blind person for a while and can't fall back on Daredevil to live out his rage, that would be angsty without the girlfriend/wife plot. Or he could just fight crime for five or ten issues for a break. I like angst and whump as much as the next fan (or maybe even more) but this is so relentless that the impact just wears down.

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