RIP Kingpin. As much as I love Vincent D'Onofrio's take on the Kingpin (and it is absolutely spectacular), Duncan really made this role his own. As a kid, watching him face Daredevil was amazing to me. He will always be missed, and he left us too early.
Being a teenager, the first time i actually read a comic was seeing his artwork and he became my favourite, especially after hearing about his relationship with his dad, how his dad never got involved only when Jr needed him.
He's right about the words. I expanded my vocabulary so much from reading Marvel comics as a little kid that the Headmaster of my school referred to 9 year old me as "that boy who speaks like he's swallowed a dictionary".
I do love his writing on Daredevil. Buuuuuut I think his takes on superhero romance are reductive and stupid. Superman is with Lois because she keeps him down to Earth.
Sin City movies are basically read-along books. I already knew the endings going into the movies. In fact, it was almost word for word. Boring…I used to like his stuff, now it’s just a childish joke.
Its a shame this portion of the documentary only interviewed Romita Jr. They really should've included the writer he worked with at the time, Ann Nocenti. But it seemed this documentary focused more on the artists than the writers.
After what the M-SHE-U did to Private Pyle, I'm positive to say that MCD was the perfect Kingpin. And him actually knowing about Kingpin comic book facts makes me appreciate his performance more. Rest In Power Michael Clarke Duncan.
It would been unique how Frank Miller would had translated Moon Knight, the Defenders, Hellstorm or even Nighthawk in vein to his brutalist pulpit take of Daredevil in the 1980s.
