Daredevil #305
Written by Linkara Tuesday, 14 April 2009 00:37
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04.13.2009 - 20:50 | Mr Dark
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04.13.2009 - 20:51 | Lan Moore
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04.13.2009 - 21:00 | iambored1234
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04.13.2009 - 21:03 | iambored1234
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04.13.2009 - 21:03 | iambored1234
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:D
Ah, purple prose come to haunt us all once more, eh? I mean really, if the narration is supposed to be his thoughts moment by moment, who thinks like that?! Who actually has an interior monologue that is that incessantly dramatic? Rorschach at least had the excuse that he was writing in a journal, so we knew that his thoughts weren't being recorded in real time. But Daredevil seems almost like he's trying to distract himself from his work. Little wonder he got his head handed to him in that fight. His mind just wasn't there...
Can't wait for next week's installment!
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04.13.2009 - 21:10 | Xatike

OMG. WHY WON'T HE SHUT UP?!?!?!
Regardless, this was really interesting. That artwork from One More Day, was it?, was intense. It makes me want to find it because the images are so well rendered!
All that aside, I think that the concept of the Surgeon General is scary. Someone running through a club, stabbing people with needles...eek! That's just dirty and yucky and scary on so many levels.
She could be injecting them with who KNOWS what?! And since she just keeps running by, those people will hold the site, wondering for the rest of their lives what the hell she injected them with.
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04.13.2009 - 21:13 | grungies
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04.13.2009 - 21:13 | NinjaGodzilla
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04.13.2009 - 21:18 | Jissai
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04.13.2009 - 21:26 | DanManX

I have to mirror Linkara's thoughts on how the Surgeon General is so effective at killing. Not only does she easily defeat two superheroes, but then she just randomly runs through a HUGE crowd of people, slaughtering as she goes. I mean, sure, I'll believe she can get the drop on them and take them out individually, but after the first couple, you'd think the crowd would start fighting back, and eventually they'd overpower her...
I hate when stories ignore simple logic like that. I mean...just, why would that be possible?
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04.13.2009 - 21:28 | Queue
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04.13.2009 - 21:33 | CMWaters
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04.13.2009 - 21:42 | CMWaters
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04.13.2009 - 21:53 | DanManX
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I would have a much harder time listing Flash's original villains(Meaning not just guys who cross-over to various books) then Super-man's.The only OG Flash villain I can conjure at this point is that evil clone with the color reversed Flash costume.
I think the problem with memorable villains is mostly due to writers not understanding how to compliment/identify a heroes personality. Too many writers jump into a comic without researching what worked in the past. So they become doomed to creating crap like "The Surgeon General".
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04.13.2009 - 21:55 | Chosen Zelos
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04.13.2009 - 21:58 | DanManX
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CMWaters wrote:Also...why does it seem that every hero except for Batman, The Flash and Spider-Man gets either a lame or not memorable set of villains?
I mean...seriously? Surgeon General?
Note I said set: sure Superman has Luthor, but how many people REALLY know any Superman villains BESIDES Luthor, for example.I LOE the Flash and all, but Green Lanterns villains are much more memorable: Sinestro, Star Sapphire, Mongul, Parallax, and I'm sorta counting the Red Lanterns for gaining popularity
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04.13.2009 - 21:37 | avidfan141
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04.13.2009 - 21:50 | Chosen Zelos
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04.13.2009 - 21:51 | Linkara
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04.13.2009 - 21:55 | Chosen Zelos
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04.13.2009 - 21:59 | DanManX
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04.13.2009 - 22:05 | CMWaters
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04.13.2009 - 22:03 | Chosen Zelos
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04.13.2009 - 22:05 | Linkara
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04.13.2009 - 22:07 | CMWaters
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04.14.2009 - 04:22 | BlueGoldBizarros
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04.13.2009 - 22:04 | mwong04
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04.13.2009 - 22:26 | Film Brain
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04.13.2009 - 22:59 | HedonisticActor
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HedonisticActor wrote:Only Daredevil villains I know are Kingpin and Bullseye. And I know them only because I've seen that crappy movie.
Btw, there's one thing that has been a riddle for me for years: What villains Hulk has? Any at all?
Besides General Ross, there's The Leader (played greatly in my neverreadinganycomics view in the 90s animated series), his accomplice Gargoyle, The Abomination (featured in the newest movie) and in the comics recently, a "Red Hulk"
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04.13.2009 - 23:06 | DanManX

Daredevil has (off the top of my head):
Kingpin, Bullseye, Elektra (sometimes a villain, sometimes an ally), Typhoid Mary, The Hand (a clan of ninjas), Stilt-Man, the Purple Man, The Scarecrow (different from Batman's, obviously), Mr. Fear...that's all I can remember.
CMWaters mentioned most the Hulk ones I can think of, other than Wendigo.
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04.14.2009 - 04:09 | BlueGoldBizarros
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04.14.2009 - 14:20 | DanManX
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as far as dare devil
villains you forgot the Owl (a big one), Gladiator (in the past), the Enforcers, the Hood, Skrulls, sometimes sorta Punisher (they get in eachothers way or when DareDevil goes on preaching to him about killing being bad mkay), and even Batman in one issue (dear goodness the writing sucked in that issue). :X oh and that new one :X lady bulls eye, (i think marvel was just trying to put the word lady in front of all their male villains :lol: jk.)
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04.14.2009 - 21:52 | superhypermoose
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04.13.2009 - 23:24 | Dectilon

It seems to me like the writer is far more emo than the character. He just found a way to force his overwrought poems on the comic readers :)
I remember Frank Miller's Daredevil to be quite good. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I remember his interpretation of Kingpin as the untouchable gangster (rather than some fidgety cartoon villain with the lone job of saying "cuuuurse yoooooou!" at the end of a comic) and Bullseye as an obsessed psycho killer (rather than some kind of failed Joker character) to be far more interesting than most comics at the time.
Since then the guys head seems to have swollen to the size of a humpback whale.
edit: I think the Hulk had enemies in a group called U-Foes too. I like their design, but their origin is quite silly.
Basically a millionaire wanted to gain cosmic powers like the fantastic four, so he and 3 other people bought a space shuttle ride and did the same trip. And guess what? It worked! :P
I think there's a communist villain who did the same with a bunch of monkeys too. It just seems like cosmic radiation is a bit too reliable a source for super powers. It's like a drive-in...
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04.14.2009 - 04:06 | BlueGoldBizarros
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04.13.2009 - 23:07 | Felcis

Great review as usual.
To be honest, I like villains (and also heroes) who are more down to earth what their powers are concerned and rather survive through pure skill (either tactical or in martial arts). But an ordinary woman in a silly costume with knives (not even spears and bows! D: ) who overpowers and outruns 2 experienced superheroes like that is just ridiculous. xD
And the narration...urgh...I´m really looking forward to the next review. Does it get worse? :D
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04.13.2009 - 23:21 | Linkara
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04.13.2009 - 23:18 | Booze Zombie
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04.13.2009 - 23:45 | Thismanwithoutthemspecs

SHUT YOUR NOISE HOLE!
Seriously amazing, and not just your review. Do you perhaps believe someone thought this a good idea, or was it more their plan to throw something out to meet a deadline? I mean human organ harvesting could be unreal, if its being used to build up some supersoldier program, or an army of undead abominations. What I don't want in a comic is people being stabbed in the neck with hypodermic needles, and accusations of AIDS flying about. Seriously, this comic blew :*(
Good review though
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04.14.2009 - 00:13 | niedziak
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04.14.2009 - 00:21 | KronosIII
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04.14.2009 - 00:49 | Exaggeration17A
Surgeon General? :D
Great review. (about all I can say.)