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Everyone should be reading Daredevil!, December 9, 2007
This review is from: Daredevil: Hell to Pay, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
I can't believe no one has reviwed this item yet, this story is gold! Ever since taking over from Bendis/Maleev, the creative team of Ed Brubaker (writer) and Michael Lark (penciller) has pushed this book to new heights. Before going on, I just have to say that people need to be reading Daredevil. This is as good as it gets!
This TPB collects the team's third story arc (Daredevil vol 2, issues #95-99) as well as the one-shot issue Blind Love (#94). #94 actually serves as a good jumping-on point for people who haven't been following the book for a while, as the last few years of Daredevil history are retold from the perspective of Matt Murdock's wife Milla. Her story makes being married to an inner-city cop look like a breeze by comparison. Being married to a superhero certainly isn't as glamorous as it sounds...
In issue #95, we meet a happy Matt Murdock who is just getting used to having his old life back when disaster strikes again. Persuaded by new legal partner Becky Blake to take the case of Melvin Potter (the Gladiator) who stands accused of heinous crimes which he claims not to remember, Matt realizes over the course of the arc that something big is brewing behind the scenes. Strings are being pulled in ways that affect him and his loved ones in profound ways, and turns his life into a living nightmare once again.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Another action-filled whine-fest for Daredevil!, June 10, 2009
This review is from: Daredevil: Hell to Pay, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Listening to Matt Murdock is really driving me insane. This book is good, don't get me wrong but his constant whining, especially from a guy who's gone through so much, is tedious. The villains and plot are upgraded from the last trade and that's definitely a good thing. Once again, the sketchy art took away from some of the climatic moments. Overall, a decent read.
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A Chance to Recalibrate, February 10, 2008
This review is from: Daredevil: Hell to Pay, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
If you've been reading Daredevil for any length of time, you know Matt Murdock's life has been moving pretty fast and furious for literally years. I like this volume in particular because it gives the audience a chance to recalibrate and get a feel for where Murdock has been and where he's going.
Overall, this volume works to reestablish Murdock's relationship with his wife, Milla. Milla's been in this book for some time, but with everything else going on it was easy to put her on the backburner. Writer Ed Brubaker uses the issues comprising this volume to get everyone on the same page about Matt and Milla's complex relationship as well as set up some conflict involving the two.
It's not all romance, though. Brubaker also has a new enemy (sort of) for Daredevil to combat, one who is going to give the Marvel Universe as a whole some fits. Before we discover this villain, though, Daredevil must get to the bottom of the Gladiator's atypical return to mindless violence.
The art by Michael Lark fits the tone of the book perfectly with a great mix of super heroics and crime noir. And the original covers by Marko Djurdjevic are literally breathtaking.
In summation, this volume was largely a chance to reacquaint the readers with Daredevil's personal life as well as set up some major conflict to come, but at no time did it feel like "filler" material. Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark continue to make Daredevil a must read.
~Scott William Foley, author of Dr. Nekros: Phantasms and Chicanery (Volume I, Episode II)
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