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

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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)

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