Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz combined their talents to create an experimental diptych featuring the pairing of Daredevil and Elektra, and now Panini Comics is collecting it in their Marvel Gallery Edition line titled Love and War.
The variety of styles in the world of superhero comics today is vast compared to just a few decades ago. And while all sleeper adventures had to fit within certain visual parameters, Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz got to do what they wanted with two characters like Daredevil and Elektra. Now, thanks to Panini Comics, we’ve got a deluxe edition with two works where these authors have changed the rules, titled Marvel Gallery Edition 3 – Daredevil/Elektra: Love and War.
Miller and Sienkiewicz experimenting with the original
The authors of this volume are two of the leading figures in the Nine Arts since the 1980s. It is the first major importance to understand what two characters are today without leaving their best work outside the world of superheroes like Sin City or 300.
By the time the second picture was drawn, he had never been a best-selling author for his unique style, but his loyal followers still refer to works like Moon Knight or his New Mutants. However, few of this author’s major works were as experimental and disruptive as those included in this volume.
In this way, beyond the established canons, Miller creates a story that cultivates a deep and evocative theology, always with that certain Nouri touch, through Sienkiewicz’s art that challenges the reader with a graphic style that challenges the reader on every page. Dreamlike is often more than a tangent.
In love and war
The first story told here in The Storytelling Key fits right in the middle of Miller’s stage as regular series scriptwriter Matt Murdock. The wife of Wilson Fisk, that cruel man with a heart as big as his body, is in a coma and requires the services of a doctor who he believes must be induced by a special method.
To do this, Kingpin uses Victor, a severely mentally challenged psychopath whose con job helps the artist to be seen and have a good time, leaving behind that style of his past that, despite his creativity, is too familiar to the public. Besides this.
Although the guardian devil is the hero of the story, it is the two villains who carry the weight of the story and Miller takes the time to get into the reader’s head, so his time in it is useless and forgettable, the obsessions, fears and weaknesses of two very tragic characters like the Kingpin and Victor.
Ninja Assassin
Everything seen in Love and War is handled in the arc that covers most of this volume’s Elektra Assis. Miller makes fewer concessions to the original, and Sienkiewicz throws himself completely into visual and cartoonish effects to deliver a story that moves between the dreamy and the fantastic to blow the minds of readers accustomed to the comics of Stan Lee and Chris Claremont…
The story takes place at a critical time in the American political landscape, when Ronald Reagan is running for re-election against Walter Mondale, and in this story we find both figures in more recognizable characters than Richard Nixon. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy respectively. It wouldn’t be the first time politics played a central role in Miller’s work, and it certainly wouldn’t be the last.
This climate foreshadows the future of the story The Dark Knight Returns screen recorder narrative resources, especially the first-person voice is evident when the ninja assassin tries to carry out an order to carry out a political assassination that drives the plot. .
We follow this mission through most of the comics through the eyes of Garrett, a SHIELD agent. The relationship with the killer and the red scarf reminds us of other famous comics like Marv or Hartigan who had their own women in distress (although this interpretation could not be applied even in a million years). for our main character).
Among the extravagant and surprising characters created in Miller complete this story (in other works, without the Nazis reaching for swastikas on their nipples), we also find an old acquaintance like Nick Fury, whose presence brings a little decency to the violent plot without limits and social and political criticism as a superhero. They look funny. All profits that cannot be ignored.
Published by Panini Comics in hardcover, the volume contains 376 color pages measuring 23.5 x 33 cm. and includes a translation of the American version of the Marvel graphic novels. Daredevil: Love and War and all eight issues of Elektra: The Killer are included, as well as all issue covers and a bonus episode at the end. It has a recommended retail price of €55 and goes on sale in March 2024.
Marvel Gallery Issue 3 – Daredevil/Elektra: Amor Guerra
The two great collaborations of Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz reunite in the only volume that allows you to contemplate the magnificence of both!
Daredevil and Kingpin’s ultimate clash is a story that delves into the mind of Elektra, the deadliest assassin in the Marvel Universe whose life is full of love, death and passion.
Unlimited experimental and action comedy.
Authors: Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz