The Web Haunt of Ryan K Lindsay

I had a blast in Europe searching for versions of my favourite character speaking other languages. I was lucky enough then that I managed to get a copy of Daredevil speaking French and speaking Italian.

I was in a newsagent when I saw an advert on the wall. It seems that Spider-Man had an ongoing deal where each fortnight a series of books would be published. The books showcased Spidey and his ability to form many varied teamups. The first week was Spidey and Wolverine, the next was him and Horn Head. I was lucky enough to be visiting smack bang in the middle of DD’s time to shine, so for seven Euro I got a hardcover copy of this:

It’s a reprint of the Spider|Daredevil mini that Paul Jenkins did back in the day. It also has an old issue of Daredevil where Spidey represents, but also stars the origin of Blackheart, or in french he is more wickedly called:

It was a coup to get the book and it sits proudly on the shelf next to my others, though I may never be able to read it.

At the Dali exhibit in Mont Martre I picked up a comic biography of the man himself. Again, too bad I can’t read French.

Then, in Italy, I was in another newsagent, this one more of a stand as it sat in the middle of a walkway. There wasn’t any DD on offer, but I found some local stuff that gave me interest. I noticed Diabolik because of the cover. The damsel and the wheelchair were very noir.

It seems Diabolik is some sort of local hero because he has a shit load of books in print. I perused a few others and found his trademark move at the end of every story I looked into. He macks the girl.

I swear, end of every issue he does it. Walking herp farm for sure.
Next to Diabolik was Dylan Dog, and this brother rolls with a different clique of homies. Like angry cookie monster here:

It was after a few weeks that I found a massive series of book stalls that ran the length of the road. There was a comics section and some titles that I would have loved to buy in simple English but that was not on offer, so I had to withhold from purchasing things like Ennis’ Punisher and Vaughan’s The Hood. What a shame. But I did find an issue of DD in Italian, and one written by Kevin Smith, where Karen Page dies. I was pretty happy with the purchase, but don’t know why they only call him Devil.

I didn’t have that cover before and always admired it, so that’s a score. I also slowly figured out that over there ‘Devil’ is mostly placed as a back-up to Hulk. So whenever I saw Hulk on a cover I couldn’t figure out why it said ‘Hulk and Devil’. I had no idea who that Devil guy was till I opened one up.