Let me see..C-I-U-R-S-C...
R-I-S-C-C-U...
S-C-U-I-R-C...
Nope, that's pretty conclusive: Circus spelled sideways is NOT death.
And no, that wasn't just a cover blurb--it was the story's title:
Just wanted to get that off my chest.The focus of today's minor rant is Daredevil #118, 1975, which just goes to prove that even after 33 years, I'm gonna rant about trivial stuff like cover blurbs. No book is safe--NO ONE, I tell you...
Were there ANY good DD stories prior to Miller?
ReplyDeleteIn a word, no.
ReplyDeleteIn more words, sure. But DD was one of those titles that never really left the Silver Age, mainly because the various writers had no idea of what to do with him. So they just wrote him like Spider-Man Lite. He swung around NY like Spider-Man, his fighting style looked just like Spider-Man (albeit with a billy club!), he quipped like Spider-Man, and his private life was just a '60s one-dimensional soap opera, just like pre-death-of-Gwen-Stacy Spider-Man. Indeed, I think a fair description of pre-Miller Daredevil is "What If Spider-Man were a blind lawyer?"
Not that there weren't occasional good stories, and when Gene Colan was on board, the art was always purty to look at...You've just got to grade them on a Silver Age curve...
Ummm... Who's Blackwing and why does he look just like Batman, including bats?
ReplyDeleteA very, very, VERY minor villain who used trained bats. Sriously
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