Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost TPB [Paperback]

Denny O'Neil (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (October 7, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785110291
• ISBN-13: 978-0785110293
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,056,562 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good..., May 29, 2003

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M. J. Mongelli (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost TPB (Paperback)

This book picks up around the time that Frank Miller wrapped up his first run on the series and around the time right before Frank Miller started his second run on the series. It's caught between greatness, thus overshadowed by the better-known arcs, but it does a good job of holding the inbetween.

Please, don't pass this book up just because it's not Frank Miller. It does have good stories in it (all except for one...surprisingly, it's the Frank Miller issue [Frank only wrote one issue and co-wrote another out of all the issues collected in here, by the way]), and the art is very good. While none of what you read in Love's Labor's Lost will be forever remembered as some of Daredevil's most defining and infamous moments (save, perhaps, Heather Glenn's suicide), all this book does is give more strength to the character of Matt Murdock/Daredevil, thus showing that he doesn't need Frank Miller to be good.

This book shows that he's great just by himself.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Denny O'neil's Daredevil, February 2, 2010

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GWB (TEXAS) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost TPB (Paperback)

For a guy that is most synonymous with BATMAN (having been responsible for some of the things remembered in Batman: Arkham Asylum, Ra's Al Ghul, Talia League of Assassins etc.), Denny O'neil shines here...

Denny O'neil is a legend in the comic world,having written Batman, GL/GA, Iron-Man, The Shadow, The Question etc. His Daredevil is excellent. If you read any of O'neil's stories, in any comic book, they all share 1 common trait: They all have built in philosophical underpinnings.

Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost is a perfect explanation of how a blind lawyer who has many relationship problems would operate as a vigilante. These stories are boiled down, simplistic and exciting. While Frank Miller has written some of the best Daredevil, these comics are right up there as far as I'm concerned.

Killing off Heather Glenn, in what apparently was a suicide, was great for Daredevil because it motivated him even more.

VERY WELL DONE... classic Daredvil. Buy it and you won't be dissapointed.

1.0 out of 5 stars A bad end to Heather Glenn., December 30, 2011

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Nathan M. Ellis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost TPB (Paperback)

So... Dennis O'Neil, where to start. Despite his run being quite long, very few of his DD issues are collected in TPB format. It's not hard to see why: dialogue with all the fluff of a Chris Claremont story but none of the character development, shocking events with all the tone of a Miller story but with none of the ingredients. In some ways it's not his fault, the silver age and bronze age were passing him by. The former Batman writer was caught in the middle of a comic renaissance at the time, having to follow writers who were making comic book history. You're all probably familiar with the Bullseye and Elektra story arc that Frank Miller blessed us with. Well, this poor guy had to continue that legacy. Did he care? Of course not! Some of his first stories involve Daredevil in the jungle, or metaphors about how Matt's life in new york is similar to the old west. I'm surprised there wasn't a "Daredevil in space" issue. Let's get to the meat and potatoes of why any of his run on DD was collected. There was a little issue, 220 to be exact, where Denny thought " I have to be gritty like Frank, I have to get my hands dirty!" So what does he do? He kills off Heather Glenn, a character who had clearly had problems with Matt in the Frank era. It seemed like a good move for a writer at the time, a girl who was being forced into marriage by a psychotic man who has major control issues, eventually develops alcoholism and commits suicide. Sounds edgy right? Interesting maybe? Well, don't get excited. The reason Heather finally snaps is because of something Frank set up in an earlier issue, where foggy noticed that her and Matt were not good for each other at the time, he forged two breakup letters with the help of Natasha Romanov and mailed them to the lovers. It worked when Miller was writing, but what Denny does with it is appalling. Heather, in a vulnerable moment, begs Matt to come back to her, he shows up as daredevil, only to dash out like an A-hole when she says she didn't actually need him. Okay i have to stop it right here, why did they not talk about the forged letters? Why has this problem only come back to haunt them now? How long has Heather been an alcoholic and why would Matt, who still wanted to get married anyway, not want to help her out? Anyway, she continues to call his office, Foggy answers (off page) and Heather Glenn hangs herself (off page). Let me stop it right here again, in new york, mid 80's why hang yourself? Why did Dennis go with that instead of maybe something that would have pertained to her situation at the time, like alcohol poisoning, or drunk driving, or jumping off her conveniently tall apartment building? Not to mention, why does this all happen off page, she's dead by page 10, why not end the issue on her death, it would make the reader come back for more. So ol' hornhead doesn't even seem that sad about it, which is baffling, he tells foggy he feels guilty and then spouts off some non-topical Plato quote (something Denny does in his comics a lot)... and that's it. A poorly paced, poorly written end to an important character. I was disgusted at first, but reading an interview with Mr. O'neil himself, I saw that he could care less about DD. He considered Daredevil's blindness to be a gimmick, along with his love life, and didn't even remember writing the issues.