![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
So, I've heard some good and enthusiastic things about Mark Waid's Daredevil run from my flist, but after reading further, I'm not sure about whether to pick the title up or not.
I was all excited at the idea of being able to back to having my delicious Matt Murdock angst unaccompanied by dead and/or crazy female characters (i.e. what made me quit reading it partway through Brubaker's run), but it sounds like Waid is going back to a completely pre-Frank Miller take on the character, and I'm not sure I'm a fan of Matt getting retconned into having all of his vaguely depressive and vaguely bipolar qualities taken away, if that is indeed what's happening. Like with Tony, Matt's struggles with mental illness (a lot of the storylines he's had since <i>Man Without Fear</i> can be read that way even if the writers didn't specifically intend it, especially <i>Born Again</i> ) were one of the things I always liked about the character.
He's still got the same personality, right? Just a somewhat more emotionally stable version of it? All the stuff he's struggled with hasn't just been erased out and ignored, has it?
I trust Waid a lot more than I do some other comics writers *cough*Fraction*cough* but all the DCnU stuff with characters I like getting half the things I liked about them taken away (those that haven't been erased from existence entirely) has made me paranoid.
(Also, wasn't T'Challa being Daredevil while Matt had a nervous breakdown that involved temporarily going evil and then running away to travel around somewhere or other? Has he gone back to Wakanda? And are the issues where he's Daredevil any good? Or at least not utterly terrible and with no dead women and some Foggy Nelson content, which is probably all it would take to get me to read them?)
I was all excited at the idea of being able to back to having my delicious Matt Murdock angst unaccompanied by dead and/or crazy female characters (i.e. what made me quit reading it partway through Brubaker's run), but it sounds like Waid is going back to a completely pre-Frank Miller take on the character, and I'm not sure I'm a fan of Matt getting retconned into having all of his vaguely depressive and vaguely bipolar qualities taken away, if that is indeed what's happening. Like with Tony, Matt's struggles with mental illness (a lot of the storylines he's had since <i>Man Without Fear</i> can be read that way even if the writers didn't specifically intend it, especially <i>Born Again</i> ) were one of the things I always liked about the character.
He's still got the same personality, right? Just a somewhat more emotionally stable version of it? All the stuff he's struggled with hasn't just been erased out and ignored, has it?
I trust Waid a lot more than I do some other comics writers *cough*Fraction*cough* but all the DCnU stuff with characters I like getting half the things I liked about them taken away (those that haven't been erased from existence entirely) has made me paranoid.
(Also, wasn't T'Challa being Daredevil while Matt had a nervous breakdown that involved temporarily going evil and then running away to travel around somewhere or other? Has he gone back to Wakanda? And are the issues where he's Daredevil any good? Or at least not utterly terrible and with no dead women and some Foggy Nelson content, which is probably all it would take to get me to read them?)
Tags: