Fucking Comics - Daredevil, the Comic Without Shame
Item 2 - The Costume:
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Let's now stop and take a look at what was going on with Daredevil's look and the gimmicks he used other than his own super-powers that he employed when he first started.
Let's start with the costume itself, and I suppose that with a blind man, you can't expect the guy to have any sort of fashion savvy, and that he probably wouldn't walk into a store and ask somebody to make him a Daredevil costume either, but come on? You see the ugly get up that he wears?
The question I also have is how the heck did he manage that outfit either? I understand that he wasn't blind from birth, but it must be pretty fucking hard to sew tights when you're blind, even if all your other senses are heightened. All that means is that you could feel the fabric REALLY good, that doesn't make you a master semester. In fact, curious to find out if there are blind people who sew anything remotely good looking I Googled it, and through my lazy and minimal searching there aren't any pictures of stuff blind people have sewn. There are a lot of text documents out there that suggest that blind people can sew, but there is no pictorial proof, which suggests to me that even if they could, it's so hideous that it's too embarrassing to show on the internet (which is something you'd figure is impossible, but there it is.)
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| Before you get too critical about how this costume has been designed, just remember it was designed by somebody who is totally blind. |
Why the big letter "D"? Okay, I get it, you're Daredevil, and even though the color scheme of your costume isn't typically associated with devils, you'd figure I'd get the idea what you're name is by the horns. Obviously becoming blind also destroyed any sense of subtlety he may have had. Shit Daredevil, how much more subtler can you get? Why not add a trident and a pointy tail while you're at it?
On the fact that as Daredevil, he keeps the fact that he's blind a secret is funny consider how unsubtle this guy is with his appearance, you'd figure he would have written the letter "D" on his outfit in Brail or something.
And let us talk about those horns for a minute. They're so small and dainty, they don't really look all that menacing, and perhaps it's an artists flaw rather than how the costume is supposed to look like, more often than not it looks like he has two nipples poking out of the top of his mask as opposed to a mask.
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| Yeah, he'll be recognized as the guy with the fucking ugly costume. |
The other thing that is interesting to note is his choice of weapon, the billy club. Because you know, devil's are known for their use of billy clubs. Now while it had a practical use, and he disguises it as a blind man's cane when he's not using it, they tried to make the thing as fancy as a certain bat-themed characters utility belt. Going so far as at one time having a storage compartment for a tape recorder. Okay, I can see how having a tape recorder when you're trying to catch crooks may come in handy, but how is it practical to put it in your billy club? Wouldn't it make more sense to conceal it on your person somewhere? I mean, if you were able to compact it in size enough to fit in your club, you would be able to make it small enough to clip on your belt or something.
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Later on in his early career days Daredevil came across a problem: What the hell was he supposed to do with his street clothes when he changes to Daredevil? As a high priced lawyer who invests in expensive suits, obviously he wasn't going to want to leave them on roof tops and in alleys where they'd get stolen, dirty, or shat on by pigeons. For someone like Spider-Man it was easy, just make a web pack to hold all your clothes and you were able to put it someplace safe or carry it with you. |
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The solution is to sew a little hood that he can store his street clothes in. The silly think looks like a hump or a backpack most of the time. The whole idea is ridiculious. Seriously. Picture those kids you see that NEVER take their backpacks off running around and fighting crooks all day. Yeah, there you go.
He quickly abandons it, somebody with super-hearing is probably apt to hear their villains (not to mention bystanders) laughing at you for being the only super hero that's a big enough sissy to need a hood on your costume.
After a time, they decided to revamp Daredevil's costume, coming up with his trademark red devil costume. Which has has worn almost constantly since dawning it in the early 60's.
His old yellow costume, while not the most humiliating outfit every worn by a super-hero, is still pretty ridiculous, and it's no wonder that they changed it.
Now that I'm done totally trash talking his costume, let's take a moment to look at his rogues gallery at at time, because a hero is only as interesting as the characters he ends up fighting.. |
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| Daredevil's storage hood, perfect place to store the lunches that mom makes. |
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