Netflix Daredevil

Mike Baron's Punisher stories are fascinating, in a way, always coming off as being played completely straight regardless of how OTT the concept was.

Slightly relevant.

The last 616 story Ennis wrote.

A while ago I updated the Punisher template over on the Marvel Wikia with everything I could think of, for everyone's Frank needs.

Look who's coming to Hell's Kitchen.

To be more specific.

edited 7th Jul '15 3:09:42 PM by ZeroPotential

Elodie Yung cast as Elektra for Season 2 of Daredevil

While Elektra showing up in Season 2 is hardly unexpected, still nice to see some confirmation.

Ahh! you beat me to it. The news only came out like 10 minutes ago...

edited 7th Jul '15 3:12:21 PM by Falrinn

Perfect◊ intro◊ for◊ Frank?◊

Needs more punched polar bear!

How can it be a perfect intro to his character if he's not even shooting anyone for littering or running a red light?

Or scaring delinquent schoolchildren◊.

@CL: Dang. No nonsense there.

So my buddy recommended I watch this a couple weeks back. Just finished the first two episodes and goddamn this show is awesome. I'm liking this, definitely.

To all the comic book fans in here: Does anyone know of any storylines where Daredevil and the Punisher clash? If so, can you name them?

Here you go.

Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe is also an interesting character study when it comes to Daredevil and Punisher. Frankly Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe is a stupid and contrived story, but the Daredevil-Punisher interactions are actually pretty interesting.

I've always loved their brief interaction in "Welcome Back, Frank".

By the way, while I think most of us enjoyed the season as a whole, what specific episodes did you folks enjoy the most? I really loved "Shadows in the Glass" for Fisk's backstory, but I also loved the season finale because I'm a sucker for epic climaxes, and the comic nerd in me loved seeing Fisk finally become the Kingpin in all but name, and Matt putting on the red costume, as imperfect as it was, is one of the best parts of the season to me.

I actually liked the second episode the most. I just adore the relationship between Matt and his father.

And while some say that it was the worst episode, I dig the one in which Foggy confronts Matt.

Did many people really have such an issue with that episode?

I liked the one before that, with his fight with Nobu.

Well, I follow a few online shows which discuss superhero media, and for some reason this episode often comes up as being to long and too drawn out.

I actually think "Nelson v. Murdock" is one of those episodes people love. The fact that most of it is Matt recovering, with flashbacks to his and Foggy's college days just makes it different from the other episodes and interesting.

I thought Nelson vs Murdock was one of the best episodes, and every moment of it was completely necessary to Matt's and Foggy's relationship. You can't just skip over something that important to the characters with a simple, "Oh, you've been Daredevil all along? Cool, now let's go fight Kingpin! Yaaaaaay!"

I think that's the only story where Ennis portrayed Matt in an even slightly respectable manner.

Second episode is my favorite. We hadn't met Fisk yet so he didn't have a chance to undercut his own threat level. The extended take at the end with Matt fighting a dozen guys in a hallway and two rooms, getting more and more exhausted with each guy he drops was the definitive Vigilante Superhero scene in my book.

edited 31st Jul '15 8:11:11 AM by TobiasDrake

Though I did wonder why he didn't simply sneak past them to rescue the child.

I mostly loved the flashbacks in the episode....thinking about it...the flashbacks were the best parts of the show.

That distracted me all the way through the fight scene. I just sat there going.. "Why are you prioritizing payback over getting the kid out of there, because clearly this is a fight you chose to have, not one forced on you.. Priorities?"

And it would have been really funny if he had just walked in, gotten the kid out, hammered a wedge under the door and called the FBI on the gang.

Okay, I confess, then I watched the scene again to enjoy the fight, but.. the context didn't really work for me.