Haven't been on here for ages...been going through some shit (like, when am I not) but am working through it. I hate this time of year. Febuary and March always suck for me.
I recently reread Daredevil:Born Again. It's poss my favorite comic book. Daredevil was the first proper comic character I read (the first was Transformers...but they don't really count). You can blame my grandfather for corrupting my tastes...when other children were getting Superman, Batman or Spiderman, I got Frank Millars original famed run on this (at least for Cardiff) unknown character. But I digress.
Born Again is to my mind the best story Frank ever wrote. You know when a story is going to be dark when, on the first page, a Stan Lee/Bill Everett created character has been reduced to a porn star and sells her former loves name for a shot of heroin. From there the Kingpin (and this story shows why he belongs amongst the greats of comic book villiany) coldly and methodically takes Matt to the edge of sanity. there are many standout bits, from the intervention of The Avengers who, for the first time ever, are portrayed as far remote from humans, to the confrontation between Captain America (the imbodiment of the American Dream) and Nuke (what the American Dream had been twisted to in the 80's), to J Johan Jameson showing why he stands firmly behind the power of the press to expose corruption. But the heart of the story remains Matt Murdock and Ben Urick, both characters who find themselves shaken to the core, tested and almost broken, but finding the courage to fight on.
It's a book I recommend to everyone
I recently reread Daredevil:Born Again. It's poss my favorite comic book. Daredevil was the first proper comic character I read (the first was Transformers...but they don't really count). You can blame my grandfather for corrupting my tastes...when other children were getting Superman, Batman or Spiderman, I got Frank Millars original famed run on this (at least for Cardiff) unknown character. But I digress.
Born Again is to my mind the best story Frank ever wrote. You know when a story is going to be dark when, on the first page, a Stan Lee/Bill Everett created character has been reduced to a porn star and sells her former loves name for a shot of heroin. From there the Kingpin (and this story shows why he belongs amongst the greats of comic book villiany) coldly and methodically takes Matt to the edge of sanity. there are many standout bits, from the intervention of The Avengers who, for the first time ever, are portrayed as far remote from humans, to the confrontation between Captain America (the imbodiment of the American Dream) and Nuke (what the American Dream had been twisted to in the 80's), to J Johan Jameson showing why he stands firmly behind the power of the press to expose corruption. But the heart of the story remains Matt Murdock and Ben Urick, both characters who find themselves shaken to the core, tested and almost broken, but finding the courage to fight on.
It's a book I recommend to everyone
And i agree that Born Again is the best thing Millar wrote. It was also the thing that made me take note of Urick as a character.