Daredevil: The Movie TPB [Paperback]

Bruce Jones (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (January 27, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785109595
• ISBN-13: 978-0785109594
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,711,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars pretty bland, May 26, 2003

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M. Cookson (Colorado Springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daredevil: The Movie TPB (Paperback)

There were four stories in this book: Daredevil: The Movie, Ulimate Daredevil and Elektra #1, Daredevil #32, and Spider-man's Tangled Web #4. I really enjoyed the section story, and I thought the last one was pretty interesting, although a bit depressing.

The first story, the comic adaption of the movie, was basically a very abridged version of the movie. Many of the scenes in the movie were cut out, which was understandable, considering the amount of space that was devoted to this part of the book. This comic was only two, maybe three times longer than the other three comics. Considering the title of the book, I expected the entire thing to be just a comic version of the movie - I wasn't expecting the other three stories. Because of how cut-down the movie story is, some parts of the plot are pathetically developed. The relationship between Matt and Elektra, for instance, seems to come up out of nowhere. Sometimes it's hard to understand what's going on, and I'm just grateful I saw the movie before reading this.

The second story focuses mainly on Elektra. There's a lot about some of her deepest friendships during a year at college, as well as how she first got to know and start dating Matt. Her relationship with Matt was really sweet, and I liked reading about her interactions with her friends. The main point of conflict in this story is the fact that Elektra and one of her friends keeps embarassing soem guy, who gets pushed more and more to retaliate. The only thing I didn't like was that this story ended with "Continued in Ultimate Daredevil Trade Paperback". I really wanted to read more.

The second story is about some police investigations into various criminals, including the Kingpin and his son. Daredevil and his secret identity are brought into the conversation. Mostly, I found this story to be confusing and boring. Mostly boring, since I eventually got over my confusion. Since I don't regularly read Daredevil comics, I had a somewhat difficult time following some of the cops' discussions about characters I didn't know. It didn't really feel like very much happened.

The last story follows the last hours of one of the Kingpin's men, when he realizes that his botched work will lead to his execution at his boss's hands. I thought this one was very well done, and it, along with the second story are the best parts of this book.

Overall, the artwork was very nice, but I think this book could have been much better if the people who put it together had focused on one thing or another, rather than jumping from comic to comic. In fact, because of the title, I think they should have just done a book-length comic adaptation of the movie. The adaptation that they actually did not do anything justice.

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1.0 out of 5 stars POOR!, November 25, 2003

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Hengky Tanoyo "Art Devourer" (Surabaya, Indonesia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daredevil: The Movie TPB (Paperback)

I BOUGHT THIS BOOK THINKING THAT IT WOULD AT LEAST CAPTURE THE DARK ESSENCE OF THE MOVIE. TURNED OUT I WAS DEAD WRONG. THE MOVIE ADAPTATION WAS VERY, VERY HORRIBLY DRAWN. THE REST OF THE STORIES, TAKEN FROM VARIOUS COMICS, WERE A BIT BETTER. BUT THAT WAS ALL ABOUT IT.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, February 4, 2003

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Claude Edward Craft (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daredevil: The Movie TPB (Paperback)

I know little about DareDevil but this was a pretty good book. It was action packed but most of the time action sometimes doesn't sound good on paper. What I didn't care for was the use of gd.