Buy used: $26.14
This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location.
Used: Good | Details
Sold by ThriftBooks-Phoenix
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.
This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Please choose a different delivery location.
Added to

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Kindle app logo image

Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.

Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.

QR code to download the Kindle App

Follow the author

Frank Miller
Follow
Something went wrong. Please try your request again later.

Elektra Lives Again Hardcover – January 1, 1991

by Frank Miller (Author), Lynn Varley (Author)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
See all formats and editions
Despite the fact that Elektra died in his arms, Daredevil is plagued by recurring nightmares and terrible premonitions that his former lover and world's top assassin-for-hire is not only alive, but active once more.
Previous slide of product details
  1. Print length
    76 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Marvel Enterprises
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1991
  5. ISBN-10
    0871357380
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0871357380
  7. See all details
Next slide of product details

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars
44 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Modmyth
5.0 out of 5 stars This may be the best single work that Miller has done for Marvel
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016
Verified Purchase
The conclusion of Elektra by the master craftsman, Frank Miller, at the top of his game. No comic book collection is complete without it. This may be the best single work that Miller has done for Marvel. Written and with all line art by Miller, and with exquisite colors by Lynn Varley - Elektra Lives Again takes us back to the damaged life of Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Haunted now by the ghost (or is it?) of the woman he loves. Ballet level battles. Elegant panel work. Sharp story telling. Another textbook amalgam of American/European/Asian comics. Buy it now!
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Michael Hull
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013
Verified Purchase
One of the greatest stand-alone comic stories of all time. The art and the story blend perfectly. From the first page in which a woman turns to take a second look at our hero as she steps over a bum, to the bitter end, this is an amazing work.
Helpful
 Report
dolf Kutschenreuter
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifull graphic novel
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013
Verified Purchase
Quick delivery from a library somewhere in the US. Good quality allthough the book has been read.
I owned this book once and lend it out, never to see it again. I am very pleased with the possibility Amazon offers in delivering second hand books.
Helpful
 Report
Ronald T. Prewoznik
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2015
Verified Purchase
Frank Miller. Elektra. Daredevil. Nothing more needs to be said.
One person found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Joseph M. Collins
1.0 out of 5 stars Wow. So bad.
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2022
Verified Purchase
So. Elektra Lives Again. A story about Elektra? No, of course not. It's about Matt Murdock and an interminable monologue about how his memories of Elektra haunt him. Don't go into this thinking your going to be reading about Elektra.
Additionally, don't go into this thinking you are going to be getting great, or good, or decent or passable artwork. The cover shows a shockingly poorly drawn figure and one assumes that it doesn't match the interior artwork. It does.
Thankfully, it is a quick read. I am unhappy that I spent $28 on it. I am shocked to see the exorbitant prices this is getting. Just because it's Frank Miller doesn't make it good.
Helpful
 Report
Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Miller Just Misses
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2003
Frank Miller, often considered one of the great modern comic storytellers, is best known for his Batman epic "The Dark Knight Returns" However, Miller returns to his roots by doing some work on Elektra and Daredevil, where he first got started in the comic industry.
Everyone knows that Elektra is dead. She was murdered by the deadly Bullseye, impaled upon her own sai (You can see the awesome battle in Miller's 'Daredevil Visionaries: Volume 2'). When Matt Murdock, Elektra's college boyfriend and the blind superhero known as Daredevil, begins to have eerie dreams of her rising from her grave, he becomes unnerved. Is Elektra back? And why? He discovers that one of his old enemies may be revived, deadlier than ever...
I enjoyed this book mostly because it was written out of the comics continuity, so you don't have to get bogged down in the chronology to understand it. The story is told from Matt Murdock/Daredevil's point of view, which is good to see, because I don't remember many of Miller's older Daredevil works being told from this perspective. This book only gets 4 stars because I was hoping for a lot more (The book is oversized and is just 75 pages long). It seems as though Miller could have written a lot more, but chose instead to make this book more 'choppy' for a more psychological effect. It didn't really work too well.
In summation, 'Elektra Lives Again' is a good book, and Frank Miller is still one of the best in the industry, but it isn't as good as his early run on Daredevil. The art is impressive and the plot interesting, but Miller fails to capitalize on what could have been an immaculate triumph of a story. Instead, he leaves many blank spots and tries to let you fill in the rest. If you're a big Daredevil or Elektra fan, you'll want to read this, but be forewarned - you may be let down.
8 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report
Omni
5.0 out of 5 stars A Work of Primal Art
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2002
Elektra Lives Again
The story of Daredevil and Elektra is literally a stand-out Romeo and Juliet of the comic world. Frank Miller created the perfect fallen hero in Elektra, shaped her psychological complex to suit her name and tied her to Daredevil aka blind lawyer Matt Murdock, the epitome of the blind lover and moral code. There is now a current monthly comic book for Elektra, the point of her death muddied by Marvel's desire to capitalize and it falls flat.
One cannot remix Bach.
The Elektra back story is simple:
Part One: Elektra became a ninja assassin for the evil Hand after the death of her father. She betrayed the Hand after learning their skills/secrets then going solo. The Hand came after her and eventually the assassin Bullseye fatally wounded her and she died in Daredevil's arms.
Part Two: The Hand decided to resurrect Elektra and make her an undead slave/assassin. Daredevil interceded and through sheer force of will, purged her soul of the evil spell right before she came back to life. However she disappeared right after her heard a single heartbeat. He was left with the doubt of whether or not she lived.
Part Three: Elektra joins with a rogue gov't agent in Elektra Assassin to stop essentially a demon/anti-Christ from becoming the President of the USA. In print, she succeeded, some argue that in reality we need her even more than fantasy allows.
Elektra Lives Again.
The Hand---persistent to a fault are at the resurrection game again. Anyone. An assassin Kirigi, Bullseye, Elektra---the Hand have this fanatical need to have a Prime A Leader Assassin. Low self esteem in ninja cult, I suppose. This time they want to first kill Bullseye (who is in prison for killing scads of folk---he's kind of like Hannibal Lecter with the ability to turn anything into a weapon-anything, we're talking orange seeds here and use him to kill. To ... Elektra, ... Matt, ... anyone. Elektra alive and avoiding the love of her life Matt Murdock is hot on the Hand's trail to stop all of this madness.
Matt begins having psychic dreams about Elektra and what her soul is going through because of the link resurrecting her has created between them.
What makes this interesting is that though Matt uses his fighting skills, his heightened senses and amazing acrobatics, he never dons the Daredevil costume. That's the first mark of this work being superb.
The second mark is the silence of Elektra and her ability to move through the real world as a shadow, a dead woman, a ninja, a ruthless assassin committed to doing what's right no matter the fall-out.
Frank Miller's point in all of this carnage and Elektra dying one more time is that this is their destiny. Elektra must deal with these dark assassins and have Matt as a tugboat of light to keep her near the line of goodness. When Matt cradles Elektra, killed by a dead Bullseye he finally can accept her death---the fact that she's dressed all in white as a nun is wonderful imagery.
The art of Lynn Varney is tired. I mean that as a compliment. Everyone looks haggard, worn out, tired. And that's how they should look. These people are something slightly different from the normal superheroes/villains in the sense that it's all personal with them and they willingly ... and will die (sometimes several times) for the Good Fight. The battles are intensely personal and gory, violent to the degree of shocking but that's what a real fight should look like. And when you get right down to it, these are some mentally unbalanced folk. Even Matt. And they should be. That's what I mean by personal, this comes as close as possible to almost reality. Of all the superhero films out there, this should be made into a film. Not necessarily a trilogy but maybe one or two that really convey the horror and pity and sadness of this whole beautiful, bloody, twisted tale.
Five Stars.
36 people found this helpful
Helpful
 Report

Top reviews from other countries

Translate all reviews to English
Sergi
5.0 out of 5 stars Lo mejor de Miller
Reviewed in Spain on August 17, 2018
Verified Purchase
Seguramente la obra más cuidada de Frank Miller, tanto por el dibujo, la edición y sobre todo el color en acuarelas de Lynn Varley, una maravilla
Report
ダミアン
5.0 out of 5 stars 名作
Reviewed in Japan on April 29, 2019
Verified Purchase
エレクトラとマットの物語を再び味わえる作品で、とても作りが美しいです。
デアデビルの巨匠フランク・ミラーは少し不満があるようですが、こう言う作りもありなのではないかと。
Report
J. P. NGUYEN
5.0 out of 5 stars One last bittersweet cocktail
Reviewed in France on August 24, 2015
Verified Purchase
Elektra Lives Again est un one-shot paru en 1990, écrit et dessiné par Frank Miller et mis en couleurs par Lynn Varley.

Sur une dizaine de jours d'un mois d'avril enneigé à New York, l'histoire raconte les tourments de Matt Murdock, hanté par le souvenir d'Elektra, son amour de jeunesse. Celle-ci était morte pendant le run historique de Frank Miller et Klaus Janson, tuée par l'assassin Bullseye, puis ressuscitée lors d'un rituel célébré par la Main au terme duquel elle fut "purifiée" par l'amour de Matt, qui lui avait transféré une partie de son énergie vitale. On la quittait alors qu'elle achevait l'ascension d'une montagne, démarrant une nouvelle vie, à l'insu de Matt, qui la croyait définitivement disparue.

Avec Elektra Lives Again, Frank Miller revisite l'univers de Daredevil, la série qui lui a permis d'accéder au statut de superstar des comics. Son style graphique a évolué depuis ses premiers pas sur Tête-à-cornes et il s'encrera lui-même dans cette histoire, adoptant un trait plus fin et cassant, pour livrer une prestation remarquable, sublimée par la palette de Lynn Varley, sa compagne de l'époque. Un dernier feu d'artifice coloré dans le comics mainstream avant d'aller vider des hectolitres d'encre noire chez Dark Horse sur les planches de sa série Sin City. C'est donc une œuvre charnière, à la fois une lettre d'adieu de Miller à des personnages qui ont fait sa gloire et un terrain d'expérimentations pour un dessinateur recherchant à repousser les limites de son art.

Bien qu'Elektra soit le personnage titre, c'est bien Matt Murdock que l'on suit, dans un chaotique travail de deuil. Murdock et non pas Daredevil, car le héros costumé n'apparaît que dans une poignée de cases, en flashback sur des écrans de télévision. C'est un héros cherchant à se libérer du poids du passé mis en scène par un auteur désireux de s'émanciper des conventions super-héroïques. D'ailleurs, l'album parait en one-shot dans un format européen sous le label Epic de Marvel. Si Matt délaisse son justaucorps rouge au profit de son costard d'avocat, cette défroque est aussi un déguisement et peu avant l'affrontement final, Murdock brise sa canne d'aveugle et ses lunettes noires. Plus tôt dans le récit, il déambulera sur les toits vêtu d'un simple slip blanc. Dans l'ultime duel, Matt utilisera une simple matraque de policier en lieu et place de son légendaire "billy club". Autant de signes montrant que Miller tourne le dos à tout le décorum habituel des héros masqués. L'œuvre dégage une atmosphère particulière, une ambiance onirique liée à la confusion mentale de Murdock, où la frontière entre rêve et réalité est ténue. La conclusion est d'une simplicité biblique mais sonne pourtant juste.

Malgré les apparences, Elektra Lives Again n'est pas vraiment un récit auto-contenu. Il ne s'apprécie pleinement que dans la perspective du  run de Miller et Janson sur Daredevil , voire dans celui de Miller et Mazzucchelli. C'est en quelque sorte le chaînon manquant entre ces deux périodes de l'histoire du justicier aveugle, la détresse morale de Murdock augurant sa dégringolade dans  Born Again . C'est la Coda de Miller sur ses personnages, son dernier baroud d'honneur (je considère que dans  Man Without Fear , la magie n'est plus vraiment là et que c'est davantage un travail de commande). Mais même avec cette approche, cette histoire ne plaira pas forcément à tout fan de DD. Comme certains cocktails, il possède un goût prononcé qui ne convient pas forcément à tous les palais. Pour ma part, je trouve les planches magnifiques, les scènes d'action hypnotisantes et la thématique du deuil et de la perte plutôt bien explorée. Dans un Manhattan enneigé, la sécheresse du trait et de la prose de Miller évoque celle d'un whisky à forte personnalité, adoucie par les couleurs soyeuses de Lynn Varley aussi subtiles qu'un vermouth rouge italien. Et le bitter ? C'est l'amertume de Matt Murdock, devant la perte qu'il n'arrive pas à surmonter, et aussi un peu celle de ce lecteur, qui ne croisera plus jamais le duo Miller-Varley à un tel niveau.
Si on préfère voir le verre à moitié plein, on peut toujours se dire que contrairement aux cocktails, les comics peuvent se lire, relire et re-relire' sans modération !
One person found this helpful
 Report
John Tate
1.0 out of 5 stars False advertising, Book in Spanish. Not clearly stated.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2018
Verified Purchase
This book is in Spanish, this is not clear, I can also see that other people have had the same issue but nothing has been done by amazon to rectify this issue.
I bought this for my sons Christmas and was very disappointed yesterday to realise that it was in Spanish. Feel this is false advertising as the front page is in English but you have to read the fine print to realise that it’s spanish. Really not good enough Amazon.
One person found this helpful
 Report
Jose A. Pérez
5.0 out of 5 stars Un cómic mítico que debes tener en tu estantería
Reviewed in Spain on January 14, 2018
Verified Purchase
Estupendamente dibujado y escrito por Frank Miller y maravillosamente coloreado por Lynn Varley. Una historia de Elektra que no debes perderte, un cómic mítico que debes tener en tu estantería.
Report