Scarecrow_King
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this issue made me want to see Waid writing more Spider-man. The back and forth between Spidey and DD over the entire 2 issues was great.
I just haven't been able to get into Waid's Daredevil myself. I've read a few issues now, but nothing seems to have any weight or importance to it. I'm not saying I want the doom and gloom of Bendis or Brubaker...but even light stories need to have a sense of importance to them.
I mean, okay, he's battling old' Mole Man again, sounds fun, but did anyone expect that story to be anything more than a fun couple of issues that could be forgotten about two seconds after you read them?
Well, yeah. Stretching a story out to long is still bad writing either way.I'm not saying that I don't like stories that are important. I'm saying that too many writers try and be important and fail by dragging a story out too long.
DD is refreshing because it isn't trying to be important, it's trying to be entertaining and it's succeeding. At least, it is with me.
I understand that you and other readers may not like it because you want all your stories to have a certain weight and feel like the events will mean something. But I don't think a character like Daredevil needs that kind of thing. He's a street level vigilante. Not the kind of hero who stops cosmic level threats, not an Avenger (because I'm ignoring most of the Avengers books), or anything on a huge scale.
That being said, I'm looking forward to the "Omega Effect" story and expect that to be a bit more important since it involves all the major crime syndicates. That's about how important Daredevil should be to the MU at large. IMO, I understand if you feel otherwise.
I dont think anyone's saying that, but there's a reason why literally everyone has been saying Waid's DD is a breath of fresh air. He's bringing it all back to basics without resorting to regression. Everything that's happened to DD the past decade still happened and still very much has consequences, but Waid is simply moving the character forward by having him not walllow in his own misery and move on. Its nice to have shorter stories too because the average arc nowadays is 6-7 issues.
Again, I'm not saying I want dark, miserable DD stories. But Matt has not moved an inch the past four issues. He's been stuck in stagnant little stories that have had no consequence.I dont think anyone's saying that, but there's a reason why literally everyone has been saying Waid's DD is a breath of fresh air. He's bringing it all back to basics without resorting to regression. Everything that's happened to DD the past decade still happened and still very much has consequences, but Waid is simply moving the character forward by having him not walllow in his own misery and move on. Its nice to have shorter stories too because the average arc nowadays is 6-7 issues.
Well, yeah. Stretching a story out to long is still bad writing either way.
If you want a good example of how to write incredible, yet short, arcs...look at Rucka's Batwoman origin. That was only three issues, but felt massive due to have epic and seminal.
You should. Shockingly, Williams' writing has been pretty on par with Rucka's.I actually read "Elegy" for the first time last week from my library and I agree. It was short but a had a great weight to it, got me really interested in Batwoman too. I'm considering picking up her solo book, even though Rucka's not writing it, since I enjoyed it so much.