My leg’s in traction

Just wanted to add to the rumor mill myself.

My apologies to any and all folks who showed up at DragonCon looking for me. I threw my back out that morning, and couldn’t get behind the wheel for the sixteen- plus hour drive. Hopefully next year.

As the comic-folk-reading of you may have noticed, Daredevil came out today. We’re kind of proud of it (I actually think the art is some of the best Joe and Jimmy have ever done), and I believe ol’ Marvel is VERY happy with the numbers it sold.

If you’ve read it and liked it, thank you. If you read it and didn’t care for it, or are confused (or think it’s a little too ‘Dogma’), all I can say is give it time. Issue one is mainly set-up. We’re done with issue two, and I think it’s where the story REALLY kicks in. By issue three, if you still don’t like it, then feel free to berate me all you’d like. It looks like we’re doing a seven parter, so I’d appreciate it if you can stick around to see how it ends up.

It was (amd still continues to be), hands-down, the most challenging project I’ve ever been involved with. There are big shoes to fill with this character, not to mention the fact that it’s not jokey in the least. As much as I like it though, every time I open up Miller’s ‘Born Again’ trade paperback, I feel like a complete amateur (which I am, but still…). If you’ve never read any Daredevil ’til now, and you really want to read a great DD story, I suggest checking it out. It makes a nice companion piece to the story we’re doing, I think, as it was very influential.

Scott and I start cutting the first cut on the morrow. The final running time turned out to be 3:17, so we feel we’re a few minutes ahead of the game. Both Bob Hawk and John Pierson (not to mention his wife and longtime Askew sounding board, Janet) have watched it and sounded off with their thoughts, which will come in useful when me and the Mos are scratching our heads, trying to figure out what to eliminate or shave.

Looks like it’s going to be a looooooong month.

Speaking of Pierson, I just did another ‘Split Screen’ (his IFC t.v. show, which is excellent, if you haven’t seen it). It should be airing soon. We shot it at the office and the comic book store. Look for it if you get either IFC or Bravo (where it airs every Friday night).

I’m going to be checking in more regularly from now on, I hope. Stick around.

MARVEL KNIGHTS, a group of MARVEL Comics put together by EVENT’s Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada, launches this week with the phenomenal relaunch of DAREDEVIL. Written by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), and featuring art by Quesada and Palmiotti, it has horn-head Matt Murdock at rock bottom, finding himself left in charge of an immaculate infant, and includes a mention of GOOD WILL HUNTING, sure to excite mega DAREDEVIL fan Matt Damon. David Mack (Kabuki) picks up where Smith leaves off with issue #7 of DAREDEVIL, with a story involving the Kingpin.