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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...


  
 


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

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

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

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Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Daredevil (1964) # 501-512, Shadowland (2010) # 1-5, Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) # 1-3, Shadowland: Power Man (2010) # 1-4, Shadowland: Blood on the Streets (2010) # 1-4, Shadowland: Daughters of the Shadow (2010) # 1-3, Thunderbolts (1997) # 148/149


(I originally read these comics between late May/early June 2015)

I recall the 'Shadowland' crossover getting bad press when it came out five years ago, but I thoroughly enjoyed this. It comes off the back of the Daredevil run by Ed Brubaker, which left DD assuming leadership of the mystical ninja order the Hand, some of his greatest enemies. Matt naively believes he can turn the Hand into a force for good in Hell's Kitchen and builds a Japanese-style fortress named Shadowland in its centre as his base of operations. He declares marshal law and under his guidance the Hand combats crime in Hell's Kitchen with increasing violence, however, leading other street-level heroes to question Matt's judgment and sanity and to vow to bring down his reign. Among these heroes are Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Misty Knight and Colleen Wing, with lesser roles for Spidey, Moon Knight, the Punisher, etc. It's nice to see lesser-known characters like Paladin and the Shroud in on the action, too. 

The Daredevil and Shadowland issues form the spine of the story, but this is the order I read it in, with all the spin-off limited series and side stories included. None of those were essential and you could argue they were padding, but most were enjoyable.


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   


Dark Reign: The List - Daredevil # 1 (2009) and Daredevil (1964) # 501-507 are collected in:

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Daredevil (1964) # 508-512 and Shadowland: After the Fall (2011) # 1 are collected in:

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Dark Reign: The List - Daredevil (2009) # 1 is collected in:

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Shadowland (2010) # 1-5 are collected in:

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Shadowland: Bullseye (2010) # 1, Shadowland: Elektra (2010) # 1, Shadowland: Spider-Man (2010) # 1, Shadowland: Ghost Rider (2010) # 1 and Shadowland: Daughters of the Shadow (2010) # 1-3 are collected in:

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Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010) # 1-3 are collected in:

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Shadowland: Power Man (2010) # 1-4 are collected in:

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Shadowland: Blood on the Streets (2010) # 1-4 are collected in:

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Thunderbolts (1997) # 148/149 are collected in:

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