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Monday Masterworks

Classic.

In Retrospect, The Time Was Obvious

Awesome picture by Bryan Mon. Glommed from hereabouts.

Very Nice

A very nice image by a dude namedTom Raney. Ganked from here.

I'd Read It.

Ganked from here.

Fin-Fang-Foom Friday!

Blue-Eyed Bad Penny

Then There Was That Season of 'Leave It To Beaver' That Ben Replaced Hugh Beaumont...

Marcos Martin Needs to Draw Everything Ever

Look at that. Seriously. It's like one of those 'follow-the-dot' drawings from Family Circus only a gajillion quintillion times more interesting.

I Mentioned This Yesterday...

Bam. Daredevil fighting lions. I will take that over ninjas any-damn-day.

Swash and Buckle

I'll just come out and say it...Daredevil is the best book Marvel is putting out right now, bar none. And yes, I know I'm the guy who said he hates Daredevil. In fact, I still hate Daredevil as a concept, but damn, it is impossible to hate this comic. Waid, Rivera and Martin have been killingon this thing for six issues now. It's not just the art, mind, or Waid's writing-which is always solid-but the whole thrust of the thing.

This is Daredevil as Stan Lee intended...the swashbuckling, smart-mouthed crimson crusader. The angst and grim/gritty noir-ness of the past two decades has been swept aside in the sort of back-to-basics housecleaning I'm in favor of...the darkness that the character has been marinating in is still there, but it's kept to the background in an admirably low-key fashion.

Every issue so far has been bursting at the seams with the sorts of stuff that makes a comic like this...we've got judicial shenanigans (barred from practicing law, Matt Murdock is now a consultant for people who want to defend themselves), romantic entanglements and boy howdy-do we got fights! In six issues, Daredevil has fought the Spot, Klaw, Bruiser (a new bad guy, seen above), Captain America, several lions and and a passel of gun-toting assassins. All in glorious six panel panorama. Seriously, look at the energy in that fight sequence above. You can see the movement in that-Daredevil hits Bruiser, bounces off, lands, gets tackled, wham! It flows beautifully.

And look at this:

That's from issue 4. That is gorgeous, that is. That is some damn Will Eisner sh*t right there. I could stare at that second panel all day. Even better?

Look at that. That is one of the best visual depictions of Daredevil's radar sense that I have ever seen. One panel tells you everything you need to know about how his power works. Gorgeous. Six issues of that so far. You need to go get that.