I was already a fan of Sam Raimi from the Evil Dead films when I first saw Darkman. I was living in NYC at the time, and I remember the posters and stickers plastered all over the place for weeks in advance, stating "Who is Darkman?" It was a cool viral way to promote an upcoming movie years before thay type of thing became common with internet marketing. Darkman was a ton of fun, and it was clear that Raimi was a big comic book fan from the look of the film. There's a great energy to the action and the cast featured Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand, two of my favorite actors. There were a few straight to video sequels featuring different actors, but they didn't capture the flair of the original, in my opinion.
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Darkman was awesometacular.
I've never seen the sequels. At that time direct-to-video or direct-to-DVD was the kiss of death. In some ways it still kinda is...but some things show a quality...like the DC animated features.
It wasn't till seeing this back-to-back with yesterday's cover that I realized how visually similar Huntress and Hawkeye are. I see that you've already paired them in Ish 505. Perhaps we'll see a sequel to that team-up sometime?
I probably should - I mean, I did establish that they were brother and sister in that tale...
Darkman and Huntress, now that would be a violent team up. Another interesting team up would be Darkman and Nemesis, Black Orchid, Human Target or the Unknown Soldier. All heroes who use disguise.
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