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I definitely like this series better than the movie series from the 80's. Less "cartoonish" and more focused on the dark psychology of the main characters.
Frank Miller really took the comics genre one notch higher when he took over Marvel's Daredevil title in the late 70s. Comics haven't been the same since. In a way, he just extended Stan Lee's innovations in the genre--originally, comic book heroes were 'perfect'. This made them quite shallow and increasingly hard to identify with. Come the 1960's, Stan Lee introduced the "hero with angst" concept--almost all his characters had a "tragic flaw". This made them more "real". They became "heroes" which people living in a stressed out modern culture could identify with. Frank Miller takes this "cult of identification" one step further--he delves into modern psychology (with all its conflicts and stresses) and comes up with a new definition of "hero."
This reinvention of longstanding "hero" franchises also extends to the James Bond franchise. Daniel Craig's version of Bond marks a clean and dramatic break from Roger Moore, T Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan's version.
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