I guess I won’t be taking that week off that I anticipated….
Comic fans might recognize the last frame from the pages of Daredevil. I won’t say anything more than that. I’ll let the readers speculate on what’s going on so I can throw out Kick Points.
Wow, I remember reading that comic when it came out.
Me, too!
Infernal Affairs?
Who’s the affair with?
Succubus or Bloody Mary…
…Am I crazy or have all Jay’s flings been with demon chicks?
So the Xander love life then…
He did have a brief fling with Blush. Oh, and Nicki Fury.
(Jay’s doing pretty good!)
Think all that action is with Kickman (&?) not Jay. Either that or my memory is going.
OH! OH! OH! I can see it now, Stabbaty Ann on the roof “You’re pretty good, but me…I’m Magic”
I think you’re mixing up Daredevil #181 with Daredevil #230. Easy mistake.
Crap…I did. My bad. I Always thought they took the panels from 181 and used them again in 230 and just switched out the main characters. (although I would like a panel of Stabbaty Ann as Bullseye…)
Stabbity Ann definitely needs to appear again. Or maybe an origin story.
Little Orphan Stabby needs to appear for the first time….
Actually on second thought, that whole scene looks more like 181 than 230. I was really only looking at the end panel with the nun. Overall, I think the entire page has more of a 181 feel.
Couple of things, first off I’m pretty infernal affairs refers to the residents of hell, possibly even the council. Secondly, what was the point that Superior jerk was trying to make, or was that just a marvel reference.
Offhandedly, I’d say he was trying to prove a world sufficient without the previous moral guidelines; that aligning the soul against reason was “good” if a (obviously false) “god” (himself) endorsed the act. (apologies for butchering Plato here) It seemed like he was trying to become the over-arching ‘reason’ of humanity- and humanity embracing the acts would have validated his ego. (iirc, he had a real disdain for people)
But he also thought breasts were awesome (naturally, a woman’s heart is the most valuable treasure in the world so their chests must be the most beautiful things in the world) and that scrawl could have been Jay agreeing with that.
It was just random graffiti… I’m sure there are a lot of people who think that things were much better with Superior Man in charge.
Certainly those betting on the World Gladiator Games! (how did the Korea’s turn out?)
I forgot about those. Was the match going to be South Korea Vs Thailand in the finals? Muay Thai Vs Tae Kwon Do. I’d have to compare population, but I think that would be a good fight.
The two Korea’s were fighting it out with the winner going to Thailand. And I need a life…
Time jump. They somehow got mixed up in a fight with the Supreme leader before they were ready and got humbled.
My first thought about panel 5 was, hey, been some time since our story took a page (literally) from Frank Miller. (And David Mazzucchelli, credit where it’s due.)
So since Born Again is one of the most awesome stories I’ve ever read from Miller*, I’m totally on board with this. This webcomic has had exceptional stories so far… I’m totally excited about where this is going to lead us.
And if you’re asking us to try and call what’s coming next (or previously, off-screen)… Let’s see, one of the captains has been made a heroin addict by one of the Supreme Leader’s agents, and they’ve supplied the location of the Kick team for a fix.
The bad guys started harrassing Grayhawk from afar, subtly, planting the seeds of doubt. They also maneuvered battles so that Blush was in deadly danger and Kickman was the one who saved her, slowly driving a wedge between the two of them and Grayhawk.
Things came to a head when a mission by Kick team went awry because the bad guys had set up a target they knew our heroes couldn’t resist hitting. It was obvious they knew Kick team was coming, but the only ones who were privy to any details were Grayhawk and Kickman. The latter might have slipped a few details to a hot lady met in a bar, so Grayhawk started distrusting him and they grew further apart.
Until today, where an increasingly paranoid Grayhawk, after eventually severing any ties with ‘traitors’ Kickman and Blush, went up alone against the Supreme Leader and was trounced, his items proving useless one after another against the villain. The Supreme Leader wounded him seriously and had him imprisoned for a ‘rematch’ in an arena, but Grayhawk was able to use the three last items he had (those that had absolutely no usefulness in a fight) to escape.
How’s that? (I hope it was at least a little entertaining to read.)
* I haven’t read all his stories, far from it since I’ve been less and less of a fan of excessive violence as I have aged, but I do reckon he can tell quite a yarn. The one Miller story I might rank slightly above Born Again would be that one issue where he fought the Gladiator in a museum. What happened there was something 14-year-old-me didn’t expect from a superhero comic book (except possibly X-Men stories, that I had already been hooked on) and I was totally awed.