New Daredevil

**wktf** · 12-24-2015, 02:02 PM

Meh, two issues in and it's just not working for me. Already a return to some of Frank Miller's mythology, the dark tone and monochromic color usage feels like a complete step backward from the advances Mark Waid brought to this book. After two issues, it feels tired already.

THECLOWN KNIGHT · 01-04-2016, 02:45 PM

I miss Waid & Samnee Daredevil too.

We have to remember Rule # 32:Enjoy the Little Things.

SONICobra · 01-04-2016, 09:27 PM

I miss the old team as well but I still find it enjoyable for that fact that its daredevil. im waiting to read secret wars until I have all the issues so I don't have any idea how hes back in new York with his secret identity but im glad he is

protector2814 · 02-04-2016, 11:18 AM

I'm still buying that as I'm a DD completest, but this Soule/Garney run is sinking fast for me. TenFingers might have been a better Miller, early 80's villain than he is today. & Garney's Matt Milla's choice to sepia-tone the art makes everything cloudy & dull. I think Soule is attempting a grand-The Hand-style epic, but it's not working for me & really needs to pick on up.

PureInvasion · 02-04-2016, 03:03 PM

I'm enjoying it. Waid's run was great, but a tone change is welcome as well for the time being. Not sure what everyone is so down on it for

protector2814 · 02-04-2016, 06:53 PM

Sure, I hear where you're coming from ... and I'm willing and intend to stick w/ it for the long run. For me, I'm just hoping things pick up. Waid left me hungry.

On a side note, Marvel is doing a lot of things right in this post Civil War. I just finished Captain Marvel, & A-Force (w/ the new Alpha Flight) & am really enjoying both. On another side note, Aaron's new Dr. Strange run is starting to feel a whole lot like his Thor: God Butcher run from a little while back. I should be posting this under the Aaron Dr. Strange run, but I'm a little off-put by this new knowledge at how much pain the using of magic is costing Steven.

PureInvasion · 02-04-2016, 09:41 PM

Waid was on DD for years...give it time. Soule rarely disappoints me lately

**wktf** · 02-05-2016, 11:01 PM

Soule/Garney's DD still feels lifeless to me. The tone, both visually and thematically, is just dull and two dimensional. It's just not going anywhere interesting and the break from Waid's run, with characters and themes just left in the dust, is too jarring. The willful disregard of continuity makes this feel too disjointed from its roots.

PureInvasion · 02-06-2016, 06:50 AM

Well you keep on buying it and not enjoying it...I'll keep buying it and enjoy it at the same time

**wktf** · 02-06-2016, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PureInvasion

Well you keep on buying it and not enjoying it...I'll keep buying it and enjoy it at the same time

You asked why people are down on the book and I was giving you my perspective.

The reason I keep buying it, even though I don't like it, is that it's the first arc of this relaunch and I'm trying to give it a chance. I've been buying DD since the 1960s and don't want this book to go the way of all the others I've dropped after 50 years. I've dropped Avengers, Captain America, Spider-Man, Hulk...I'd dropped FF back when Hickman was on it, I've dropped all of DC except for Batman, and I'm trying to hold onto DD. If it doesn't get better for me by the time this arc ends I won't keep on buying it.

I'm happy for you that you like it. That's a great thing for you.

My only books these days are Dr. Strange, The Vision, Hercules, Thor and DD.