REMINDER :: HEROES DISCUSSION GROUP MEETS SATURDAY, MARCH 24
Just a quick reminder, join us on Saturday, March 24th at 1:00pm as we hunker down and discuss Daredevil: Born Again collecting Daredevil # 227-233. by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. If you have not read it before you are in for a treat!
Here are just a few of the topics we will discuss:
- What is it about Mazzuchelli’s art that sets it apart?
- Does the multiple narrator frame work succeed or detract?
- The God and Country/Armageddon Coda
- Ben Urich’s role in the finale two issues
- Sister Maggie
- How did this run on Daredevil affect Miller’s career as a writer/cartoonist?
- The lack of the patented Miller comic relief
- Murdock’s descent into madness
- An examination of the splash pages and the titles of each of the issues
- And lots more–there is quite a bit to talk about!!!
And as always, Born Again is available from Heroes with the special 10% Discussion Group discount. Just be sure to remind the clerk as you check out!
See you Saturday, March 24th!
This is one of Miller’s best written graphic novels to date. I don’t remember if it was written before Dark Knight or for that matter Batman Year One. David Mazzucchelli has a very direct approach to his work. He isn’t overly cartoony as some times Miller is. I don’t think Miller’s style would have suited this paticular book.
Especially the villian who was like Rambo in this novel. The red,white and blue capsules he took for his strength were quite symbolic of the Rambo and Commando movies of the 1980’s
I hope Mazzucchelli comes back to comics in a big way. I prefer his approach to sequential story telling than many of the more photo realistic illustrators of today. His command of characters and facial expressions are the best. They helped Miller’s “Born Again” in a significant way.