I asked my friend (and EPA-co-writer) Nathan to join me for some back-and-forth about the status quo of Marvel’s maybe-most-put-upon hero, Daredevil.
Greg: A little under a year ago, in Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark‘s last Daredevil issue, Matt Murdock accepted an offer to lead the Hand, a clan of ninja assassins with whom he has long been enemies. From what I understand, current writer Andy Diggle‘s run has seen DD attempt to reform the Hand while perhaps overstepping his bounds as an urban vigilante.
Brubaker’s last issue ended with a hell of a cliffhanger, but Diggle’s first Daredevil comic didn’t make a good impression on me, and since then I’ve found no real incentive to check back in with the series. That, and I’ve found everything else I’ve read by Diggle underwhelming—even before his tenure on DD began, he struck me as a less-capable writer than Brubaker, or for that matter Brian Michael Bendis. (more…)
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