COMICS: Marvel To End Mark Waid's Eisner Award Winning DAREDEVIL With Issue #36

They want new readers, if you have an alternative plan to #1's instead of casual readers jumping on at #398, i'd love to hear it.

Having a new #1 for a new writer's run makes a lot of sense to me, as long as that writer intends to stick around for a while.

There's nothing to stop them celebrating anniversaries, what the hell difference does it make?

Never once when I was young & started reading comics did I care about what stupid issue number the book was.

Has sales indicated Marvel is right & starting books back to #1 really increases sales?
If so..people are stupid,the buying public & the comic companies.

i remember the days when comics would run into the hundreds.

LMAO I'm pretty sure Marvel knows how to run their business at this point. Josh is still upset Dan Slott pulled his card and now hates Marvel. This book was great, and whatever project the creative team lands on will be just as good.

It's been a great run so far. love what they did with Bulls eye and making Matt seem crazy and such. Art is phenominal.

Heeeerrreee comes ROB LIEFELD!! Introducing Daredevil: The Man Without Feet.

@loki668

Don't even joke about that!

On topic, I don't really care too much about renumbering. It increases sales so whatever. Although my favourite parody of Marvel's renumbering policy was in the latest arc of the Image comic, Skullkickers. Every single issue of the arc was issue 1 and came under a different subtitle. Eg. Uncanny Skullkickers or All-New Skullkickers.

Daredevil Reborn: Jeff Loeb and Rob Liefeld together for the relaunch!

I was thinking of getting the hardcovers, but now that it's ending, I guess I'll wait for the omnibus.

"the diabolic Daredevil"

@Charlie2094
I think you're right about this having SOMETHING to do with the inevitable Daredevil movie/show. I hope it's just a tad bit darker than the current run, not Frank Miller dark, but still kind of gritty.

every 6 would be a nightmare to keep track of. But I don't see a problem with renumbering after 2+ solid years of work, as long as the change in direction warrants it.

I just thinking having a Bendis era colllection 1-whatever, followed by a Brubaker #1-whatever, and Waid #1-whatever makes sense in the long run. They were all so different from each other.

Obviously, each case should be taken on its own merits.

To be honest, long runs on comic series can be quite damaging. I think a lot more comic series would do a lot better as 12 to 24 part story arcs, then start again when the next starts up. If you look at Amazing Spiderman and Superman, they went on forever, it was really hard for new readers to just jump in and get to know what is going on. Continuous series also suffer from a lot of filler stories that aren’t really relevant, the 90’s and 2000’s were full of filler stories that were not relevant to anything. The only bad side to this though, is that when something does happen, things really have to escalate for it to be relevant.

I have to say, Superman (and a lot of DC stuff to be honest) could be a lot better in smaller story arcs or maxi series. There, of course, will be a lot of people complaining that they don’t get a monthly comic, but in the long run, the comics will (hopefully!) be of a better quality and gather a bit more interest than normal. Marvel, though, just need to put the brakes on the whole “Big Event” thing they seem to do every quarter, it just gets boring. For me, they need to focus on the characters more and not the destruction of the Marvel universe every few months. I mean, really... If you were super powered and had to fight off Earth destroying aliens every other month for years on end, surely you’d wonder what the point is and leg it on a F4 spaceship to the arse end of nowhere in the universe where there is some peace and quiet and with a nearby bar and brothel!? For me, a decent Marvel storyline would be Captain America just going “[frick] this, I'm off...” and seeing him buggering off to a club to pull some trashy women.

I have not read Daredevil in quite a while as I have never known when to start reading, the new #1 issue will be a great jumping on point for me personally.

Who needs to "keep track" of anything? Just read it if it's a good story. And take comfort in the fact that Marvel is getting new readers to join you in your NEW SPECIAL FIRST EDITION! I mean a NEW first issue every six months . . . that would be the best!
Who needs gradual arcs when you could get a reboot before the writer goes stale!

Of course it is! Both Marvel and DC have decided that the old readers will be there NO MATTER WHAT. So they'll change and change and change hoping to attract new readers. But here's the thing . . . if I don't think my favorite comic has a shot at a good long run; if it doesn't have a chance at establishing itself and its tone in the Marvel Comic Book universe: if they're going to ignore any nuance that ONLY comes from a writers ability to explore different aspect of how THAT character fits into the Marvel Universe as a whole – then it just becomes a series of short stories in a larger anthology. If that is where were headed . . . I'm out. I'll just start picking up only the trades that interest me and/or get great comic fan reviews.

I think I'm done "collecting."

What Daredevil actually needs is a kick ass videogame like Arkham Asylum.

The Nightvision is there already!

Even Captain America got a decent game copied from that Batman Game.

There´s a recent videogame called "Rain" which actually steals Daredevil´s movie "rain vision"! Damn!

Oh...I guess I should read the article.