The Daredevils 2

 

Following on from before, it's another excellent issue of "The Daredevils" - Firstly, Brian Braddock returns to his ancestral home to find himself under attack by a villain called Mastermind. Again, Moore does a neat bit of work here retconning something that happened before without rendering it incoherent. More fine formative work from Alan Davis - at this time Marvel UK wasn't really producing much of its own comics material, so it's a bit rough around the edges but it's great to see. 

Following on from this, we've got Bullseye kidnapping Black Widow to lure a trap for Daredevil. More marvellous art from the Miller / Janson team, and its effectively laying subplots about Ben Urich. Top drawer stuff. The Spider-Man strip from years before still pales into comparison, but I note that it's introducing the Kingpin, so maybe they are using that strip as a way of backstory to the wider DD continuity. 

There's a two page article about a recent UK Comics Con which is refreshingly free of hyperbole and contains a good summary of the Frank Miller panel. Alan Moore also finds the time to review another couple of fanzines - amongst them an early Arken Sword. As well as being interesting to see his views on the fan press, I am encouraged to see the wide range of fanzines on offer - in two issues, he's already reviewed five of them. I know the comics audience has migrated to other channels now, but I think I'd be hard pushed to name 5 comics magazines still being released, which I think we would all agree is a shame. 

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