Daredevil/Elektra: Love & War by Miller/Sienkiewicz

[delekkerste]

Has anyone read Daredevil/Elektra: Love & War by Miller & Sienkiewicz? Not sure when it came out or how I missed it all these years...for some reason I thought it was just a reprint of Elektra: Assassin, but I think it's a full-length, original HC graphic novel, no?

 

Anyway, I was thinking about picking this one up on Amazon.com. Not to judge a book by its cover, but the stunning Sienkiewicz cover may alone be worth the price of the book (I saw the original artwork for sale in San Diego for some outrageous price...$6K, I believe, for something that's smaller than a standard comic page).

 

Worth picking up? Thoughts?

 

Gene

[Foolkiller]

Gene,

i think it's worth picking up... I read it years ago, and have my GNs stored somewhere downstairs, but as I recall, I enjoyed reading it, and you really can't go wrong with Sienkiewicz art.

 

 

[rob_react]

If you like Sienkiewicz's art, then it's certainly worth picking up.

[delekkerste]

Amazon.com says it's 328 (!) pages long?!! Is that wrong or did they stick a ton of reprints in as well? The main story is all-original material, right?

 

Gene

 

 

[rob_react]

It was one of the "Marvel Graphic Novel" series and was as long as those normally are.

 

After a little detective work I see that what you're buying is the Love and War GN + Elektra Assassin repackaged.

[delekkerste]

Ahhh...that explains why there is a "Daredevil: Love and War" TPB listed separately at 64 pages. So, I guess that Elektra does not even feature in the graphic novel? And the "Daredevil/Elektra: Love and War" HC I guess is just the Daredevil TPB combined with Elektra: Assassin with a new Sienkiewicz cover. Now it becomes clear...thanks.

 

Gene

[supapimp]

WOW! for a miller DD fan you missed it back in the late 80's? im not even going to assume what was going through your head back then. now you have read elektra lives again by miller and varley right?

[delekkerste]

Oh yeah, I own and have read Elektra Lives Again...looks like DD Love & War came out in 1990...with few exceptions, I pretty much stopped collecting everything but Uncanny X-Men (and later X-Men) while I was in college...the whole Valiant craze totally passed me by, as did the release of this graphic novel, apparently!

 

Gene

[Foolkiller]

Ahh... so what I was referring to was DD: Love and War... I guess this is some sort of repackaged reprint...

[jjreason-migration]

It's one of the best Marvel Graphic Novels I've read, and I think you'd be able to find a first print of the magazine sized book for less than 10 bucks. Im not huge fan of Sienkewicz, but his arts melds well with Miller's writing.