Cluttered Like My Head

 And so we come to the final issue of The Daredevils. Behind a cover of the Fury clobbering Captain Britain, there's an editorial from Bernie Jaye, revealing both that the title is going to merge with the (recently relaunched) Mighty World of Marvel, and that she is going to be moving on as well. I haven't read any issues of the latter title, but it's clear that a lot of credit for the approach of the Daredevils has to go to the editorial team and the lead they provided to the creatives - it's notable that there's a short Moore / Davis strip wishing her well.  The Captain Britain strip rounds off the story. It's a bit rushed but Alan Moore and Alan Davis perform an effective job of corralling all of our main players together to see of the Fury, with one particularly striking double page sequence by Davis featuring a sequence of full height wordless panels, ending with the Fury buried under tons of rock. The Special Executive take their leave and the story promis...

 The Chicago Conversion is an interesting V book. The first two either cover the original series or run parallel to it. The third one features the TV cast running around in an attempt to capture Diana. This is effectively the first one that falls in that gap between the mini-series and the original series, and chooses to fix any problems with continuity by setting itself in a completely different locale, with a completely different cast.  This has strengths and weaknesses. A strength is obviously that there is less chance of it contradicting the story that we see in other media, but a weakness is that the cast from the TV show is already well defined, and the book has to introduce a cast from scratch. I'm guessing that they were also written at pace, and so we tend to see a selection of common tropes appearing in the books. In this one, for instance, we have a hero called Sam Walker, an athletic Vietnam vet, a bit rough around the edges, a reluctant fighter driven by the loss ...