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Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

So I am the poster who said I have faith in Charles Soule.

On that note, I did actually bring your concerns up to him today in the Marvel panel at a convention I am at and ask him to clarify why he made the choice he made and where he thinks the value is in taking away one of the few "good guy" defenders out there.

First off, he agreed that too often defense attorneys end up the bad guys. But he stated that the choice to make Matt a prosecutor is based on a few things (to sum up what he answered and paraphrase it from my memory):

• While we haven't had a lot of good guy defenders in general media, in the Marvel Universe specifically he feels that between Matt, Foggy, Jen Walters and other characters, there's actually never really been a heroic prosecutor in that world. So he thought it was ripe to explore in that sense.


• He really, really wants to bring a fresh take to Matt and felt that it's hard to do that with stories of him defending people because it's been done over and over. He's interested in what happens when there's no longer such a strong conflict between his day job and his night job.


• He's knowledgeable enough about how DA's operate to be interested in the fact that being a DA means night shifts, crazy hours, different levels of accountability and is just apparently fascinating to write about. He described being a DA (based on what he understands from DA's he knows) as being something like the show Night Court and thinks it will generate some interesting stories people haven't seen before that have some realism.

Apparently, everyone in Marvel is also extremely excited at Ron Garney's art and think it's game-changing.

He also said that he didn't watch the Netflix Daredevil series until after he came up with his take, because he didn't want one to impact the other. When another panellist asked him if he feels pressure to conform to the Netflix show now, he basically said that he's gonna deliver his take on Daredevil regardless of what anyone else is doing and tell the best story he can tell.

I don't know how much that really helps anyone who's worrying about it, but it sounds like we're going to get a very different, but also very well thought out and unique, take on the character.

Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for this, nonny. I've heard about 6 different interviews with Charles recently and he said a lot of the same things he said to you, so I'm just hoping and praying that we like the new Matt. Charles definitely sounds really jazzed about it, but in one interview he said he was rethinking himself more writing this run of DD than he ever has before. Mostly because he's worried about filling some really big shoes, a lot of Eisner winners who have written DD before him. I wish him well, I hope he does well, because I want to see a new take on Matt, yesss. I'm only a little concerned that Foggy will be present but not quite so accountable? I'm not sure what that means. :\