A classic Marvel hero redefined by one of comics' greatest visionaries! A Marvel Comics mainstay since 1964, Daredevil got a new lease on life in a landmark 1979-1983 run by writer-penciler Frank Miller and inker-penciler Klaus Janson, whose daring reinvention of the character quickly made Miller one of the biggest and most influential stars in the comic-book industry. Miller puts his own stamp on established cast member such as reporter Ben Urich, femme fatale Black Widow, mad assassin Bullseye, the saw-fisted Gladiator, and monstrous crime boss Kingpin. Miller also introduced Daredevil's mysterious mentor Stick, deadly ninja foes the Hand, and Matt's long-lost love Elektra, a beautiful assassin who would become one of Marvel's most memorable characters. Mixing traditional super-heroics with mysterious martial aristry, doomed romance, and dark personal drama, Miller's character-defining DD run is collected across three titanic trade paperbacks! Collects Daredevil #173-184.
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The operatic climax of Elektra's tale.,
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This review is from: Daredevil, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
After the introductory period involving other writers, Frank Miller's classic run on "Daredevil" enters into its most famous period, the climax of the Elektra Saga, which would define the title character and his relationships with several of his key villains. This volume collects issues #173-184 of the ongoing title, all written and illustrated by Miller. Some spoilers follow.
After Miller took over as writer, he immediately introduced the deadly assassin Elektra, Daredevil's former love in college, and instigated the return to New York of the mob villain the Kingpin, who came to believe his wife Vanessa had been tragically killed, though readers know better. As Kingpin and his puppets tighten their grip on New York's power structure, this comes into play (for all Miller's reinvention of Daredevil's world as a street-level noir, you get somewhat got intrusions of the unreal such as an underground society of mutants who live in the sewers). The key story of Miller's run, indeed, perhaps in the whole history of Daredevil, is the death of Elektra at the hands of the villain Bullseye, whose place Elektra had usurped as the Kingpin's chief assassin. The fight between the two is wonderfully depicted in the space of a few pages, and the final blow now counts as among the most endlessly homaged moments in the history of comics (indeed, any appearance of either Elektra or Bullseye has a decent chance of homaging it). Subsequent years have seen quite a bit of talk about the tendency of female characters to be killed in such a way as to effect the male hero, but this is an interestin example in so many ways: Elektra dies because she, independent of Matt, gets in the way of Bullseye, who isn't even aware of the connection between the two. Bullseye's killing of Elektra after, in the beginning of Miller's run, Matt's decision to save his life, leads into an examination of the morality of superheroes' refusal to kill their enemies. Murdock rages at the cost of Bullseye's survival (true to the preoductions of Lt. Manolis at the time), and, in an unrelated case, finds himself dealing with the Punisher, the embodiment of the trigger-happy hero. The story plays with the effectiveness of the law and the limits of vengeance in society, ending uneasily on Murdock's side, an issue that will continue to fester through the end of Miller's run. Miller also introduces another important part of Daredevil's mythos, the ninja group the Hand, assassins who trained Elektra. This is perhaps the most important creative period in Daredevil's history, and is well worth the time of any comics fan.
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Miller at his peak,
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This review is from: Daredevil, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
You can definitely see the progression from volume 1 to this one, wherein Miller drops all the silliness (well, most of it...Stilt Man makes an appearance) Marvel had long been known for and shows us what comics can be.
I love how Daredevil shifts from realistic crime with Kingpin's reintroduction to more exotic mysticism with the advent of the Hand and Elektra. Wish Miller had stayed with the character even longer
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Classic.,
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This review is from: Daredevil, Vol. 2 (Paperback)
Frank Miller. Back in the day, When someone spoke his name, you instantly thought "That man knows how to write." And this is proof. Before he wrote "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" and "Batman: Year One" (both of which I highly recommend if you like Batman) and re-defined that classic character, he recreated the Man Without Fear.
In Daredevil:Vol 2, you will read some of the best Daredevil comics that have been published. Frank Miller Brings the character to a place no one had previously achieved. He made him cool. And bad to the bone. In this collection, you can see why he is called the man without fear. This is a wonderful read if you are a fan of daredevil or of just comics in general. These are truly Classic. And for the price (which on Amazon.com is about $10.00 ceaper than a bookstore)you can't beat it. Especially since these single issues in your local comic shop (if you even have one) would probably go for that price alone. So long story short--Buy this. Read it. And enjoy it.
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