DAREDEVIL #284-290 (1990-1991)
Lee Weeks comes on board as series artist and…Wow. He’s somewhere in between the heavy inks and shadows of Frank Miller/Klaus Janson, and the more line-based drawings of John Romita, Jr. Weeks will provide consistency during the transition between Ann Nocenti’s and DG Chichester’s runs, and they are two very different writers.
Kingpin’s latest schemes have failed to bring Daredevil down, but his trip to hell has left him a little…Touched. Kingpin is still frustrated by the whole thing, but look here how he hits Bullseye with a newspaper–training him like a dog.
And so in this, Nocenti’s last story, Daredevil and Bullseye switch costumes.
Daredevil is still pretty nuts, and Bullseye has always been crazy. So it makes for an interesting dynamic.
During the first part of the arc, fake Bullseye ruins DD’s reputation by doing awful things in the red underwear. Which leads to this:
I find this to be the single WORST moment in Nocenti’s run. It turns Kingpin into little more than The Joker and Daredevil into Batman. But Kingpin is really more Machiavellian than trickster–he shouldn’t NEED Daredevil to fight him (the way Joker needs Batman), he should hate Daredevil and smile only when DD is crushed. Conversely, Murdock is driven by justice–not revenge. He’s the fist of the law, not the Dark Knight of vengeance.
But the story ends like this, so all is forgiven:
Daredevil #181 has to be one of the most iconic comic books in history–the “DD drops Bullseye” sequence has been tributed, copied, plagiarized over and over again. And it always works.
I really am enjoying Nocenti’s run. Sad it’s about to end.
Here’s the sequence, in case you forgot…

The splash page to #290 is pretty funny. Nice headlines.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN BYRNE–The John Byrne Top 10
John Byrne was born on July 6, 1950. He’s the only celebrity I ever stalked. Actually, I just knew he lived in Brooklyn Heights and saw him enter a house…
THOR #433 (1991): Joe Sinnot Retires
A bonus post from Thor #433, where on the letters page Ron Frenz announces inker Joe Sinnot’s retirement from comics and pays a nice little tribute.
Thor #427-433 (1990-1991): Thor’s soul separated from Masterson
After an interminable sequence involving Eric Masterson being sad about his divorce and missing his son (it’s actually only a couple pages, but NOBODY CARES ABOUT ERIC MASTERSON!), we get…
UNCANNY X-MEN #151-152 (1981)
Kitty’s parents pull her out of Xavier’s school and send her to the Massachusetts Academy (home of the Hellfire Club). Nice moments between Kitty and the team before she leaves….