(I originally read these comics in mid December 2015)
So, here is Daredevil volume 4 by Mark Waid, following on the heels of Daredevil volume 3 - also by Mark Waid - which you might recall I read a few months back.
After the events of that recent run, Matt Murdock has been disbarred from practicing law in New York so has moved out west to his old (1970s) stomping (or swinging) grounds of San Francisco, with girlfriend/new law partner Kirsten McDuffie. Matt's old law partner Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson has succumbed to the cancer that affected him previously (SPOILERS) except, no he hasn't, his death has been faked to protect him from reprisals at the hands of Matt's enemies and he's moved out west, too.
The run is mostly made up of short stories with few overarching plots, with returns for many classic - or not so classic - pre-Miller villains including the Purple Man, Stunt-Master and... the Man-Bull. Matt forms an uneasy alliance with the Shroud to take down the Owl, leading to the latter becoming enmeshed in some cutting edge surveillance technology, vegetative but omnipotent. This has later repercussions when the Shroud uses the Owl to expose all Daredevil's remaining secrets, including his role in helping fake Foggy's death, leading Matt to the one person with clout enough to force the genie back into the bottle: the Kingpin.
The final issue wraps up all plot lines, including the outcome of Foggy's cancer, simultaneously providing a good conclusion to the Daredevil story as a whole and a clean slate for the succeeding writer. I won't be reading Daredevil beyond this point, however, unless it's in the form of retro tales. His post-'Secret Wars' status, with his secret identity suddenly restored, is of no interest to me.
Daredevil (2014) # 1-5/0.1/1.50/6-10 are collected in:
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Daredevil (2014) # 1-5/0.1 are collected in:
Softcover:
Daredevil (2014) # 1.50/6-10 are collected in:
Softcover:
Daredevil (2014) # 11-15/15.1/16-18 are collected in:
Hardcover:
Daredevil (2014) # 11-15 are collected in:
Softcover:
Daredevil (2014) # 15.1/16-18 are collected in:
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