Go North
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN: THOUGHTS! ZCN!
Ahhh, Thursday morning. It’s been a crazy work week so I still need to catch up on DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN and its big finale! Better get to it now so I don’t get spoiled! Want to see how my beautiful son Cole North is doing!
(one hour later)
wtf
SPOILERS BELOW
cole got blown up
A lot of people have been asking me how I feel about the fact that Cole was a bad guy murder man in this season when in the comics we made him a good guy struggling with his feelings about the law. Would I have preferred he be like he was in the comics? Of course! I’m proud of the work Marco and I (and many others!) did developing Cole North! It would have been super special to see that version on the screen! But, this was ALSO pretty damned cool!
Here’s the deal: once I leave a book, I’m done. Whatever happens with the characters after I’m gone, it really doesn’t matter to me because my story is still there, still ready to be read, it’s own little world, unsullied by the world outside of its pages. In an upcoming ZCN I chatted with Cody Ziglar about how I view the story I’m working on as its own continuity, its own little universe where we’re just simply telling the story we want to tell. Anything outside that is just noise. And sometimes it’s delightful noise, like a character popping up in an MCU show and you meeting the actors and going to a cool-ass party. But, still, noise.
So, no, I’m not at all upset about them changing elements of the character. The team on DD:BA had their story to tell and they did what they needed to do to tell that story. Sure, they could have just made a totally new character named Nole Corth but they made him Cole North and I’m eternally grateful because that meant Chippy got paid, yo.
But hey! The Punisher didn’t shoot Cole! When him and Daredevil left the scene of the crime (itself a crime! Boys!), we didn’t see what Cole got up to! Maybe … he survived??
Jeremy was great in the show. You can see his fun behind-the-scenes post over at his Instagram!
Oh man, if you’re headed to Instagram, you should ALSO be subscribing to Valerio’s page. He posts lovely Cap bits like THIS:
The pages he and Frank have been sending in are unreal. I can’t wait for everyone to see what we’ve been cooking up.
One last plug for this event on Saturday! David and I will be signing at THIRD EYE COMICS for TIME WAITS and it’s gonna be great and fun! Come on out if you’re in the area!
Also, I like in the above graphic how it looks like our character Blue is doin’ a little toot
See you there!
Also, if you’re still on the fence about getting TIME WAITS, check out this nice review from Publishers Weekly! It’s got spoilers though, so be careful!!!
And, lastly, in CHIP PALZ news, monster comic artist and self-publishing king Andy Belanger is now doing a comics-themed Youtube show! It’s fun sitting in as he talks with Karl Kerschel about damned funny books:
Okay! That’s it!
Bye!
OH SHIT WAIT! ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #10 CAME OUT THIS WEEK!!
It’s a super fun one! Joe Kelly and I go deep on our love for Mr. Spider-Man!
There are a bunch of cool bits in this issue, so please get one from your beloved comic shop! And if they don’t stock it, stop beloving them!
For my paid subscribers, a PDF is below!
Okay! Bye for real!
UPCOMING BOOKS
FCBD: FANTASTIC FOUR/GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #1 — May 03
BATMAN: THE DYING CITY — May 05
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #11 — May 14
GIANT-SIZE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 — June 11
ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS #12 — June 18
CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 — July 2
UPCOMING SIGNINGS
THIRD EYE COMICS (Annapolis) — April 19