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kusonaga (kusonaga) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-07 11:32:00

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char: black widow/natasha romanova, char: dagger/tandy bowen, char: daredevil/matt murdock, char: moon knight/marc spector, char: power man/luke cage, char: shang-chi, creator: chuck dixon, creator: ed barreto, title: marvel knights

When Matt met Luke: Marvel Knights #11
So, last time I was here I posted some pages from the 2000 series Marvel Knights, a fun little exercise into street level team-building, featuring Daredevil assembling a team to take down the Punisher and for about fifteen issues, taking on various threats of a superpowered kind. The team was originally just Daredevil, Black Widow, Shang-Chi and Dagger (from Cloak and Dagger), but the group got an expansion in issue #5 with the inclusion of Moon Knight. The latter thought the team needed some organising (y'know, some actual being a team) and in issue #11, he brought in Luke Cage for some reinforcements.

This is a response to starwolf oakley's recent post, featuring Cage's interaction with DD in the pages of Bendis' Daredevil.

Scans not mine. Written by Chuck Dixon, drawn by Ed Barreto. 7/22.

"And that's a cash-back guarantee."

The Knights (who never actually got themselves a team name) go about catching some bad guys.

Marvel Knights might've had some crappy covers and Dixon's Daredevil wasn't always spot on, but it sure didn't lack in fun. I'll be posting some Dagger/Black Widow interaction soon, as that was a definite highlight of the team: Cloak and Dagger (although mostly Dagger) got some much needed time around other people.

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ellimere
2009-11-10 01:38 am UTC (link)

Daredevil is my main title! I think calling Jack Murdock a "reasonably successful" boxer is kind of misleading. He'd quit boxing, and struggled to make a living other ways. His son was blinded, and he returned to the sport, only to be killed because he refused to fix the fight. The fact that he was in a situation where the mob (and the Fixer) were rigging his matches, that he quit only to return to the crooked system due to a lack of cash and a desire to support his son, says to me, "these guys were not very well off at all." The reason Matt was such a good student is because his father drilled into him that education was his only way out, and that still informs how Matt thinks in a big way. Which is not to say he hasn't been well-off for a long time (though the success of the Murdock legal practice kind of fluctuates with writers)-- he did work hard and graduate at the top of his class. His disability and genuine financial need probably meant a scholarship bonanza. But all of his money comes from his own work, versus, say, the Wasp. He hasn't had an easy ride, so, if he doesn't realize other people struggle to make a living, it's more "well, if I can do it, why can't they?" than an ignorance of what poverty is like. I guess, is what I'd say.

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psychop_rex
2009-11-10 01:49 am UTC (link)

I'm not saying that he's ignorant of poverty, I'm just saying that work has always come easy to him, because he is one smart cookie, an excellent lawyer, and people tend to give him a break because of his blindness. Luke Cage, on the other hand, is far from dumb, but he doesn't have the sort of book learnin' that DD had due to his father's efforts. He's pretty much a dude from the streets who's led a life from paycheck to paycheck and usually lets his fists do the thinking, which is a mindset pretty foreign to Murdock. So yeah, 'if I can do it, why can't they?' is a pretty good summation.

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