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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-11 14:37:00

Entry tags:

char: daredevil/matt murdock, char: kingpin/wilson fisk, creator: andy diggle, creator: greg rucka, creator: matthew southworth, creator: roberto de la torre, publisher: marvel comics, publisher: oni press, title: daredevil, title: stumptown

Noir Time
Four scans apiece from Daredevil #502 and Greg Rucka's creator-owned noir Stumptown #1.

So, last Wednesday in the old digs, it seems.

Starting off with Daredevil, the book opens with the crippled Owl being visited by his three chief minions, who tell him they're ditching him and striking out on their own to run his operation. Later...

No, don't continue, for God's sake!

Whatta maroon.

Elsewhere, Matt and co. declare war on Osborn's crooked legal apparatus. Earlier in the issue, two protestors who were victims of police brutality but were brought to trial (part of the same group who Osborn engineered the deaths of in The List) and found not guilty - however, the corrupt judge overturned the verdict and found them guilty. Foggy screamed at him in court about being a crooked douchebag, and got sent to jail for contempt.

Now, some cops bust a drug runner, but it turns out they plan to pocket the merchandise themselves and dispose of the criminals ("See, you die resistin' arrest, we get a commendation an' a big fat raise."):

Over in indie-land, Rucka's book was mntioned last week as being the lastest in his line of lesbian characters. If so, it's mostly implied in the first issue.

Our main character is a private investigator in Portland, Oregon, by the name of Dex (being a tough chick, she has a man's nickname; at least she's not "Sam"). She's a shitty gambler, and so an Indian casino boss offers her the job of finding the boss' missing granddaughter in lieu of paying the $19,000 she owes them. After getting beaten up by some goons, some other goons arrive and take her to the house of one Mr. Marceno, the state's seventh-richest man.

Creepy. Anyhoo, Creepy Rich Guy offers her double what Indian Casino Lady is paying her to tip him off first upon finding the girl (Charlotte), and then bids her goodbye.

At the end of the issue (well, the start of the issue), she gets abducted by the goons who beat her up earlier, who then drive her to the river and shoot her a couple of times. Well, comic over.

Oh, wait, sorry.

So, yeah, not a great day for her.

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	daningram 2009-11-11 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	A judge overturning a not guilty verdict...yeah that doesn't break credability at all. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	toby_wan_kenobi 2009-11-11 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	I like how one guy becoming a vaguely-powerful government figure has resulted in IMMEDIATE TOTAL WIDESPREAD CORRUPTION. I mean, hello, bureaucratic inertia? As for the judge overturning a verdict, it doesn't break credibility, it breaks the legal system. Surely, Marvel has a lawyer they could have asked about this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-11-11 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	Please, the MU government was already corrupt. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-11-11 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	You've never been to Mexico. Judges toss out all evidence at a whim. ._. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-11-11 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	Guess I should have been clearer in that it wouldn't/couldn't happen in the United States. (Reply to this) (Parent)

freezer818
2009-11-12 12:37 am UTC (link)

Judges can toss out evidence or overturn guilty verdicts. But the Constitution says a Not Guilty verdict is period, paragraph, end of discussion. Even trying to reverse a not guilty verdict would see you in front of a judicial review board within the week.

Whether this is a case of Did Not Do The Research ot They Just Didn't Care, the result is the same: WTF, yo?

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	glprime 2009-11-12 05:33 am UTC (link)
	Exactly. At most there's the appeals process for a higher court overturning a previous court's ruling, but a judge outright ignoring a jury's verdict? Sorry, no, the writer and editor involved need to be beaten with "Trial Law for Dummies" copies for this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	freezer818 2009-11-12 05:47 am UTC (link)
	Not to mention that if they really wanted to show the judge as that corrupt, they could've easily had him jail the defendants on trumped up contempt charges. Really, anybody who's watches TruTV or A&E could've told the writers differently here. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-11-12 09:13 am UTC (link)
	Whether this is a case of Did Not Do The Research ot They Just Didn't Care I think most of the legal aspects of CW and all of the fallout from it can be summed up as one or other of the above. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rhythmbandit 2009-11-12 12:23 am UTC (link)
	Okay so I know nothing about the Daredevil story, but I found that last panel of him leading a ninja squad through the air HILARIOUS. First Tim Drake/Wayne gets a ninja posse, now Daredevil; I guess ninjas are the new zombies? And I am digging Stumptown, might pick it up; anyone know how long this series is going to be? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	strannik01 2009-11-12 01:20 am UTC (link)
	It's ongoing. The second arc, btw, will apparently involve Mim Bracca of Fistful of Rain and he hinted that characters from other Kodiak novels may show up somewhere down the line. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rhythmbandit 2009-11-13 01:54 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I was just wondering how much money I'd be investing in the series eventually. I'm cheap like that. And I know nothing about the books this is based on, but I guess it's neat that it's part of a bigger world. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

strannik01
2009-11-13 05:13 am UTC (link)

Nothing wrong with trying to be prudent with your money in this economy. And Stumptown isn't exactly based on Kodiak books - it's more like Strugatsky Brother's Noon Universe books, where the books shared basic settings, a few recurring characters but not much else (except for Time Wanderers, which managed to bring together most subplots and character arcs from every book that preceded it. But I digress). In Stumptown's case, most characters are brand-new, but the cop Dex she was talking to on the phone, Tracy Hoffman, previously appeared in Fistful of Rain.

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	glprime 2009-11-12 05:33 am UTC (link)
	It's raining Oni! AAAAAAAAAH! (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-11-12 07:39 am UTC (link)
	Wait - why are they arresting her? 'Cause they think she's drunk? Is it illegal to be drunk now? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	gargoylekitty 2009-11-12 07:50 am UTC (link)
	Where do you live that you haven't heard of this(just curious)? Though, yes. You can be arrested for public intoxication. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-11-12 10:00 am UTC (link)

I live in Northern California. And personally, I wouldn't call a riverbank with nobody around 'public'. If it were in the middle of a city, that would be different - it would fall under 'drunk and disorderly' - but this is the middle of nowhere! She might as well be in her living room for all the turmoil she'd cause by being drunk out here! I mean, it's just her and the cops, and what evidence do they have that she's drunk? Don't they have to give you a breathalyzer test or something before determining that?

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gargoylekitty
2009-11-12 10:26 am UTC (link)

Depends on the place but public can fall under anywhere that isn't private property. Honestly though I do think the cops are acting a little sketchy here(not sure why they're there in the first place or why they'd pull a gun, possible page or so skipped?) but, unless I'm mistaken, they can bring someone in under the suspicion of being intoxicated without a breathalyzer in most places.

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gargoylekitty
2009-11-12 10:35 am UTC (link)

Then again she's not being charged yet, from what I see, so despite their behavior they could just be bringing her in to figure out what the hell's going on. I mean she's splashing around in the river in the middle of the night presumably acting a bit groggy and talking about people trying to kill her with no signs of a car or anything of how she got there, I don't think they're just going to leave her there regardless.

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	mcity 2009-11-12 04:18 pm UTC (link)
	When did DD become head of the Hand, and how? And is Dex a lesbian too? I ask only for the record, of course. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-11-12 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	#500, and he's the replacement for Skrull-Elektra; he's doing it to try and reform/destroy the organization from within. According to the publicity she is; there's nothing in the first issue that says much on the subject either way. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	strannik01 2009-11-13 05:16 am UTC (link)
	According to the publicity she is; there's nothing in the first issue that says much on the subject either way. Didn't know that. Suddenly, her conversation with Tracy takes on a whole new undercurrent. (For those who haven't read Fistful of Rain, Tracy is a lesbian) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wardelivery 2009-11-14 03:02 am UTC (link)
	'Dex' isn't just a man's nickname, it's a PDX injoke. "DEX" is a Northwest yellow pages. One of its slogans is 'Find anything'. (Reply to this)