Matt Murdock: Daredevil Appreciation 2021

[Nanashi]

I like Zdarsky too but keep him with Chechetto. I don’t care if they need to have some gaps in shipping if it means we get his art every issue. It’s always stings when an issue is done by another artist and it lacks the quality/energy of the main one. Especially if something big happens in it.

Absolutely.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Issue 1-10 if Zdarsky's run are bundled together on Comixology.

[Nanashi]

Daredevil 29 variants

[Nanashi]

Hope he can get to at least 50 issues. A significant milestone in this day and age.

One can hope.

[Nanashi]

Just beautiful.

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

I like Zdarsky too but keep him with Chechetto. I don’t care if they need to have some gaps in shipping if it means we get his art every issue. It’s always stings when an issue is done by another artist and it lacks the quality/energy of the main one. Especially if something big happens in it.

Yes, I absolutely agree.

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

Daredevil commission by thai スバル@tshakw:

[Mike_Murdock]

Speaking of various trade paperback collections, I'm reading the Truth/Dare trade. They include the Mike Murdock Annual, which makes sense. That being said, they put it after the first issue (when Matt turns himself in). The problem is, in the story, Daredevil tells Mike that he's out on bond, which spoils whether he'd get bond in the following issue. But the following issue has the cliffhanger with Kirsten appearing that's followed up immediately after.

I wonder if the best place to have put the issue is after 23. Issue 23 ends with the cliffhanger of Mike Murdock pretending to be Matt Murdock. Those who are reading this book not having read Soule's run would have a WTF moment where "Matt" and Daredevil are in the same room. Those who have read Soule's run but are reading Zdarsky's run for the first time in trade would know it's Mike but not yet realize he's a "real boy." Either way, it seems like putting the annual after would enhance the surprise without undercutting Mike's appearance rather than spoil anything by putting him before.

It's a minor point overall and it's obviously too late to change it for the trade. But maybe the Omnibus could take this into account. Does anyone have any thoughts?

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

DAREDEVIL #31
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
SPIDER-MAN VILLAINS VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
THE DAREDEVIL ISSUE YOU CANNOT MISS!
Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto and all their collaborators have redefined the life of the Man Without Fear. IN THIS ISSUE, they do it all over again and, what’s more, they go a step further and UP THE ANTE!
WILSON FISK’s gambit from the past few months risks upending his life and tenure as mayor!
Meanwhile, MATT MURDOCK has to fend off a prison full of inmates who all want DAREDEVIL dead…and the inmates aren’t the only ones!
This, as Elektra fends for herself as a DAREDEVIL all her own, fighting to protect Hell’s Kitchen…and leaving herself vulnerable in the process!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

[Raffi Ol D'Arcy]

An alternate universe Daredevil in:

HEROES REBORN: AMERICAN KNIGHTS #1
PAUL GRIST (W) • CHRISTOPHER ALLEN (A) • Cover by CHRIS SPROUSE
Variant Cover by DECLAN SHALVEY
BACKED BY THE SQUADRON SUPREME, COMMISSIONER CAGE THINKS HE’S BULLETPROOF. HE’S DEAD WRONG.
And it’ll take a Saint to prove it. Someone is cleaning up criminals who’ve escaped justice – and leaving a bloody trail in their wake. This is the Squadron’s world, and the age of vigilantes is over. Police Commissioner Luke Cage has one job: Find the scum and eliminate them – before ambition takes them beyond the city streets.
40 PGS./ONE-SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

[Nanashi]

DAREDEVIL #31
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
SPIDER-MAN VILLAINS VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
THE DAREDEVIL ISSUE YOU CANNOT MISS!
Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto and all their collaborators have redefined the life of the Man Without Fear. IN THIS ISSUE, they do it all over again and, what’s more, they go a step further and UP THE ANTE!
WILSON FISK’s gambit from the past few months risks upending his life and tenure as mayor!
Meanwhile, MATT MURDOCK has to fend off a prison full of inmates who all want DAREDEVIL dead…and the inmates aren’t the only ones!
This, as Elektra fends for herself as a DAREDEVIL all her own, fighting to protect Hell’s Kitchen…and leaving herself vulnerable in the process!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

I am so happy that Checchetto is still on interiors! And that is an interesting cover to say the least. What does it mean?

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

Speaking of various trade paperback collections, I'm reading the Truth/Dare trade. They include the Mike Murdock Annual, which makes sense. That being said, they put it after the first issue (when Matt turns himself in). The problem is, in the story, Daredevil tells Mike that he's out on bond, which spoils whether he'd get bond in the following issue. But the following issue has the cliffhanger with Kirsten appearing that's followed up immediately after.

I wonder if the best place to have put the issue is after 23. Issue 23 ends with the cliffhanger of Mike Murdock pretending to be Matt Murdock. Those who are reading this book not having read Soule's run would have a WTF moment where "Matt" and Daredevil are in the same room. Those who have read Soule's run but are reading Zdarsky's run for the first time in trade would know it's Mike but not yet realize he's a "real boy." Either way, it seems like putting the annual after would enhance the surprise without undercutting Mike's appearance rather than spoil anything by putting him before.

It's a minor point overall and it's obviously too late to change it for the trade. But maybe the Omnibus could take this into account. Does anyone have any thoughts?

I thought the order of the issues was fine myself.

[Nanashi]

Daredevil by Dan Panosian

[Mike_Murdock]

DAREDEVIL #31
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) • MARCO CHECCHETTO (A/C)
SPIDER-MAN VILLAINS VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
THE DAREDEVIL ISSUE YOU CANNOT MISS!
Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto and all their collaborators have redefined the life of the Man Without Fear. IN THIS ISSUE, they do it all over again and, what’s more, they go a step further and UP THE ANTE!
WILSON FISK’s gambit from the past few months risks upending his life and tenure as mayor!
Meanwhile, MATT MURDOCK has to fend off a prison full of inmates who all want DAREDEVIL dead…and the inmates aren’t the only ones!
This, as Elektra fends for herself as a DAREDEVIL all her own, fighting to protect Hell’s Kitchen…and leaving herself vulnerable in the process!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

Any idea who is doing the main cover? It reminds me a lot of Romita Jr's work from the Nocenti run when Daredevil goes to hell.

[Nanashi]

Any idea who is doing the main cover? It reminds me a lot of Romita Jr's work from the Nocenti run when Daredevil goes to hell.

It’s Checchetto.