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colonel_green ([info]colonel_green) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-19 14:04:00

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Entry tags:char: daredevil/matt murdock, char: kingpin/wilson fisk, char: lady bullseye/maki matsumoto, char: master izo, creator: ed brubaker, creator: michael lark, publisher: marvel comics

Matthew Murdock vs. The Hand


Ed Brubaker's run on Daredevil concludes; four scans from Daredevil #500.

These last few issues have been a bit more widely spaced than usual, but this one has a double-length main story, and Lark has been tremendously productive overall, so I think he can be forgiven taking a bit of time on these last few (be interested to see what he does next; nothing's been announced).

Anyway, Daredevil rescues Dakota from the Owl (and cripples the Owl with a katana), while Master Izo turns out to have been playing the long game with Black Tarantula, whose healing process eventually cleansed the Hand's infection (he then does the same for White Tiger).

Daredevil and Izo head off to confront the Kingpin, who is meeting with the Council of Four (the Ninja-Lords of the Hand, short one member since Skrull-Elektra died), who are now offering him the leadership of their organization.



We get some snippets of Izo's backstory here:  he was one of the founding members of the Hand several hundred years ago, who left soon after the death of the great leader, because the Hand was becoming the Hand we're now familiar with (the leader was apparently blind, and Izo blinded himself in turn to see like he did; Brubaker seems to be revisiting the idea that Stick brought up in Miller's run that everybody has the ability to see like Daredevil if they wanted to).  He then founded the Chaste, but was voted out in favour of Stick about sixty years ago because he was a drunken gambler that everybody found disgraceful.

They bust into the ceremony, where Kingpin has already killed Lord Hiroshi, one of the Four, since he ordered the murders of Marta and her kids.  Daredevil pummels Lady B, and then captures one of the...I guess it would be Three now.




Later...



Izo's a very cool addition to the mythos, I have to say.  Also, I like that she's still around; writers tend to whack the new villains they create these days.

Matt leaves a note telling Foggy and Dakota to put his stuff in storage, because he won't be around for a while.  Now, with Black Tarantula and White Tiger backing him, he begins the challenges to fully assume the job (and, for the first time in a while, he prays, which heartens him; it's an oddly hopeful way to end things).

I (and many others) though that Matt would end up taking the leadership of the Hand, but Brubaker's usually less about destination than the story there, and this was a good ending.  Also, the Izo stuff was genuinely unexpected.

Looking back at his run, "The Devil in Cell-Block D" is one of the best Daredevil stories ever; the next year-and-a-half (Daredevil in Europe, Daredevil vs. Mister Fear) was a lot less interesting (though the latter stories reads a lot better collected than in singles; one of Brubaker's rare failures of pacing).  Beginning with the Greg Rucka co-written story and then through "Lady Bullseye" and "The Return of the King", things really revived and ended on a high note.


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[info]sherkahn
2009-08-19 05:59 pm UTC (link)
Is that Fisk with 4-1/2' sharp ninja word in his back? One that wasn't thrust but brought down on his shoulder?

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[info]colonel_green
2009-08-19 06:03 pm UTC (link)
He can take a lot of damage.

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[info]foxhack
2009-08-19 06:55 pm UTC (link)
Dude's covered in lard. All his wounds are hermetically sealed instantly. *bahahaha*

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[info]buttler
2009-08-19 07:55 pm UTC (link)
I demand that the next chapter be titled Daredevil: Talk to the Hand.

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[info]taggerung301
2009-08-19 09:47 pm UTC (link)
I'll start the petition

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[info]mcity
2009-08-20 03:49 am UTC (link)
And I'll form the legs!

Wait, wrong reference.

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[info]statham1986
2009-08-19 09:45 pm UTC (link)
As much as I've liked elements of Bru's run - He actually made Mister Fear into something when he, like so many of Daredevil's rogues, was a joke and elevated him to have some real potential the next time someone picks him up. He made Bullseye a legacy character of sorts in an interesting and unusual way (I didn't expect her to be little more than a crazed fangirl) - I'm still more excited for what comes next, given that Bru's left Matt on a potentially more massive cliffhanger than Bendis did.

I also want to see Typhoid come back to the book in the manner she was made great in, not some government stooge and not some simple-minded lackey who kowtows to everything the Kingpin tells her and falls in combat to Luke Cage and Jess Jones screaming 'AIIIEE!', but a sexy, dangerous woman who can manipulate every single man around her.

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[info]colonel_green
2009-08-20 03:09 am UTC (link)
Certainly it looks like the title will be going somewhere reasonably new, which should be interesting. How will the other heroes react to Matt cooprting murderous ninjas?

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[info]unknownscribler
2009-08-21 06:32 am UTC (link)
Probably about as well as when Renee did the same thing a couple of years back

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[info]ashtoreth
2009-08-20 02:13 am UTC (link)
I've been expecting Izo to come out for awhile. But I was expecting him to betray Matt as part of some diabolical trick to get him in the Hand. And he STILL could.

I mean, Matt's doing the same thing Elektra did.

I found it kind of depressing. Wish I didn't leave it til last to read. :(

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[info]schmevil
2009-08-20 03:36 am UTC (link)
Can you edit your post title to be more generic? We've had complaints about spoilery-ness.

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[info]colonel_green
2009-08-20 03:59 am UTC (link)
Sure. Though I don't really see anything particularly spoiler-y about "Nina-Lords" in the title; anyone reading the arc would know Daredevil is fighting the Hand.

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[info]schmevil
2009-08-20 04:00 am UTC (link)
I'm not following it right now, so I really can't comment on that. Thanks for editing!

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[info]thanekos
2009-08-20 05:25 am UTC (link)
ah, Hand mooks.

even the trapster's beaten some of 'em.

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