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To QUOTE Mahatma
Gandhi: 'An eye for an eye only ends
up making the whole world blind'.
THE STORY:
Through your paper-thin walls, Matt Murdock, I could hear
everything the Deputy Mayor has told you. For a start, I could hear her describe the circumstances
surrounding your old adversary setting up shop in San Francisco .
Then I could hear you laughing out loud when she mentioned his name, 'The Owl'.
And after that, well, she talked about me, didn't she? She talked about me
until you suddenly heard me skulking about upon your roof-top. Forcing you to
jump into action and confront me, man to man.
But now that you have, what do you think about our
confrontation, eh? Are you impressed by it? Are you perplexed by it? Or are you
in agreement that we both have to team-up or else someone will die?
Come one, Daredevil. I'm waiting for an answer. I haven't
got all night you know. The Shroud does have other things to do!
Overall I'd say this issue of Daredevil was a really jazzy
book, daddy-o. Not only because the central narrative had a somewhat be-bop
tone to it. But in addition to this the artwork was additionally jazzy as well,
largely due to the fact that it looks jazzy on the page.
Jazzy, just like a jazz band that's won ten consecutive jazzy jazz-band competitions on the trot.
Jazzy, just like a jazz band that's won ten consecutive jazzy jazz-band competitions on the trot.
Yeah. Straight up, dear reader! Aesthetically this tale had
a very bohemian manner of presenting itself in both style and in content. For
example, I haven't seen a bad guy eavesdropping on a good-guy since I last
watched a sixties film-noir. Also, that whole scenario where the Shroud comes
across like Daredevil's opposing half was a right blast, and I honestly can't
wait to see how this will all play out next month.
THE BAD:
The only thing that annoyed me about this adventure was that
section where it alluded to Foggy Nelsons fate without giving very much away. I
mean, for crying out loud! How much longer do I have to wait before I know
what's happening to our old friend?
THE MUSIC:
On a conceptual level this tale is about two men who are
very similar yet very different at the same time. So that's why I think it
would be a pretty good musical-match for the Beatles ditty, 'The Two of Us'.
Yes. That is correct, dear reader. I am comparing this comic
book to another comic book. And that other comic book is none other than a Batman comic
book as well.
You see, in a one off special published by DC in 1984, Mike
W. Barr and Michael Golden created a character called the Wrath, who was in essence the ying to Batman's yang. So I'm
sure you can now see what I'm driving at in its relation to this story.
Yes? I thank you.
THE CONCLUSION:
As this installment of 'Daredevil' didn't want to tell us
anything about Foggy Nelson's mysterious disappearance, I thought it would be a
pretty good idea if I take a stab at it myself. So here goes nothing, folks!
Wish me luck...
- Through no fault of his own Foggy was run over by a sexually perverse steamroller driven by Kim Kardashian's subconscious.
- When he heard the news that Ben Affleck was going to star as Batman in the new 'Man of Steel' movie, for some strange reason he took it upon himself to justify this casting choice to a savage crowd of Mormons.
- After he was cured of cancer, one of his doctors accidentally shot Foggy in the head nineteen-hundred times with a flu jab.
- Foggy
was in the process of becoming a 'Beliber', when suddenly he realized what
the f*ck he was doing, and so he decided to end his life by visiting
- From out of nowhere he was crushed to death by a flying pig.
- Matt Murdock is in fact Foggy Nelson, and Foggy Neslon is in fact Wonder Woman.
- Foggy Nelson isn't dead; he's mealy resting, pining for the fields, like a Norwegian Blue... Parrot that is.
Nuff said. Ni!!!!
DAREDEVIL #2
Reviewed by David Andrews
on
May 15, 2014
Rating:
Reviewed by David Andrews
on
May 15, 2014
Rating:
