Thursday 15 September 2016

Daredevil: Reborn (2011) # 1-4, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear (2011) # 513-523, Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive (2011) 523.1-529, Power Man and Iron Fist (2011) # 1-5


(I originally read these comics in early June 2015)

All three of these series spin out of the 'Shadowland' crossover. 'Daredevil: Reborn' has Matt Murdock "finding himself" in South Carolina, sans costume, and up against small town corruption and a super-powered gangster, before returning to Hell's Kitchen to re-don the red tights at the end. Pretty good stuff, and a worthy coda to Andy Diggle's underrated run.


   


The Black Panther series by novelist David Liss takes up Daredevil's numbering and has T'Challa standing in for Matt as Hell's Kitchen's protector while he's away. It's a more urban vigilante take on the Panther, with a few well-known villains thrown in, including the resurrected Kraven the Hunter (ugh). It's pretty good; not great, not terrible. Franceso Francavilla's interior art in most of the title's first half is striking and it's a shame that come its second half (subtitled 'The Deadliest Man Alive') he's only providing covers.


    
   
  

   
  


The Power Man/Iron Fist series features the new, teenage Power Man, introduced during Shadowland. He's a decent character (and son of the minor Luke Cage villain 'Shades'), but the story, by Fred Van Lente again, was crap. No wonder the character didn't take off...


  
 


Daredevil: Reborn (2011) # 1-4 are collected in:

Hardcover:

Black Panther: The Man Without Fear (2011) # 513-518 are collected in:

Softcover:

Black Panther: The Man Without Fear (2011) # 519-524 are collected in:

Softcover:

Black Panther: The Deadliest Man Alive (2011) # 523.1/525-529 are collected in:

Softcover:

Power Man and Iron Fist (2011) # 1-5 are collected in:

Softcover: