Daredevil #4

[arbre_rieur]

Last issue ended with the Shroud betraying Daredevil, standing by and doing nothing while the Owl sprung a death trap on him. This issue begins right after that.











The Owl is after some experimental communications technology being housed in this facility.

Comments

[thanekos]

Nice setup for Jubula Pride: one line at the bottom of a page.

[silverhammerman]

I'm loving the interactions between Daredevil and Shroud, and the similarities between Shroud and the old Matt Murdock. I'm curious to see what Waid has planned for the Owl now, given that he seems to have gotten some kind of upgrade.

I'm consistently excited to see where this series goes next.

[beyondthefringe]

If I'm not mistaken, no one's mentioned outright that Julia is Julia Carpenter, aka Spider-Woman/Arachne/Madame Web... and she was last seen after the Spider-Island crossover.

Then again, the Avengers don't seem to ever be too concerned over what happens to their former members.

I'm surprised there's no one person or agency in the MU that tries to keep up with super-heroes and gets worried when they go off the radar for extended periods of time. Sure, SHIELD and the Superhuman Whatever Agency and other groups -try- but we never really see anyone who's dedicated to keeping tabs on heroes.

Then again (again), it's easy to fall between the cracks.

[michaelhealy]

With all the ten minute retirements, depowerings, costume/name changes, deaths, resurrections, time travel, clones, alternate universe dopplegangers I'd be surprised if the IRS could keep track of most superheroes.

[drtechnobabel]

Never doubt the power and tenacity of the IRS. If you're a living US citizen and not paying your taxes, they WILL find you and make you pay, one way or another. If you don't believe me, just ask the Joker. Or if you want a more detailed explaination, give Saul a call and ask him about it.

[bewareofgeek]

This is the 21st century. There's probably an fyeahmadameweb tumblr.

[seisachtheia]

She sent Kaine a letter in Scarlet Spider or something, didn't she?

[lieut_kettch]

Being a precog and and a clairvoyant gives one a distinct advantage if one wants to stay off the grid.

[icon_uk]

Please Matt, don't use the word gunsel unless you are sure you know what it means... it does NOT mean gunman except by erroneous association, it means "catamite".

[chrys]

Hmm, really? The dictionaries I checked had both definitions. (I'm ESL, btw)

[icon_uk]

Yup, really.

Dashiell Hammet has Sam Spade use the term in The Maltese Falcon in 1929 when referring to Caspar Gutman's "man" Wilmer, because Sam knew Wilmerwas Gutman's "kept" prettyboy.

Because the magazine it was serialised in had strong rules against sexual innuendo of any sort (and definitely anything involving homosexuality), Hammet deliberately used the term so that the editors (who would be very unlikley to know the term) would assume it meant a slang term for "gunman". *

The term is used in the famous movie version too, which is where the term came into common use, because EVERYONE thought it meant gunman.

So it IS commonly used to refer to a gunman, but it's a common usage based on a misunderstanding of the word's meaning and still has the original meaning too.

* Chris Claremont did the same thing years later in X-Men, when he was forbidden from saying that Mystique and Destiny were lovers, and so has the Shadow King refer to Destiny as Mystique's "leman", which means "lover", but which he counted on not enough people knowing for it to raise a red flag with the editor)

[lieut_kettch]

I was taken aback by Matt's use of the word as well...

[starwolf_oakley]

That "suicide by supervillain" line reminds me of SPIDER-MAN: THE OTHER. Mary Jane says Peter's career as Spider-Man has been an attempt at "suicide by supervillain" (thought she doesn't use that term) since he feels so bad about Ben Parker's death. THE OTHER had a lot of flaws, but that really sticks out.

[blackruzsa]

"The strange death of Foggy Nelson" did I miss something or is no one bothered about this?