Imagine being Dan G. Chichester, the guy who followed up the legendary Miller and Nocenti Daredevil runs, and everyone tells people to "drop Daredevil at #300 because it's a good stopping point and the book's not as good afterwards." #300 is less than 10 issues into Chichester's run and nobody ever talks about #301-309, 312-332, 338-342, and 380.
>>153852394Yeah because it really was a perfect ending and left both Matt and Kingpin in perfectly appropriate places. After this begins the carousel of Matt's endless identity crises and mental breakdowns and some cringe finger-wagging about Matt's infrequent kill count and the random whore he knocked out the window became Typhoid Mary
Most comic writers even on big characters are forgotten, and even big names have forgotten runs. Conway was at DC for like a decade writing stuff like Justice League, and people barely talk about his run.
>>153852394I mean at most post-300 of his work, people talk about Fall From Grace but usually in the "remember that time Daredevil wore black armor?" way.
>>153852394>and everyone tells people to "drop Daredevil at #300I've never told anyone that, any of you anons ever done that?Admittedly nobody's ever asked me for my opinion on Daredevil or where to stop with it, but my answer for any book is "stop when you're not enjoying it any more". It's better to encourage people to form their own opinions than to be NPCs blindly following rec lists.>>153853934The black armor and the Shadowland costume were cool alt costumes for Daredevil.
>>153852394Okay I'm imagining.
>>153855898What do you see?
>muh endingsis overrated yes.Though poor DG's run ended up getting screwed over by his editor. https://manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-interviews/Chichester>My getting fired was, as far as I know, just an idiotic decision. <G> Peter Principle in action. I don't know what was really up with that, as it was never ever discussed with me officially. After Marvel was "split up" into 5 editor in chiefs (remember that grand scheme boys and girls?), DD was taken away from longtime editor Ralph Macchio, and landed in Bobbie Chase's "Edge" universe, a supposedly "edgy" corner of the Marvel U. Marie Javins was given the hands on chore of editing DD, but while she was away on vacation, Bobbie gave the title to another writer, Marc DeMatteis. When Marie returned, she was told of this news, and that I was off the book...but that I wasn't to be told this! (Nope, all this time later, I still don't get this logic!) Anyway, I've known Marie forever and a day, so she of course did tell me. And that was anticlimactically that. While Bobbie never had the professionalism to discuss the matter with me directly, the skinny I heard was that she considered my stories "too hard" for the "average" reader. Too many syllables, too many notes, who knows? Nothing like having little faith in your audience, I always say!>I think Marc DeMatteis is an exceptional writer, but from what I saw of his "interpretation" of the Murdock/Batlin issue, he was just completely off base. That kind of pseudo-psycho stuff worked like gangbusters in stories such as the Spidey-Kraven arc he did, but it had no place with DD. My feeling it wasn't true to the character, or what he'd gone through to get to that particular point: he never thought he *was* Jack Batlin. It was a mask, same as Daredevil. Clearly, I'm not objective!
