Showing posts with label Mark Waid. Show all posts
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Monday, 17 October 2016

Daredevil (2014) # 1-18


(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. 


   
   
   
   
  
 


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Daredevil (2014) # 11-15/15.1/16-18 are collected in:

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Friday, 23 September 2016

Daredevil (2011) # 1-10, 10.1, 11-36


(I originally read these comics in early August 2015)

I read Mark Waid's first run on Daredevil and flew through it. It picks up after the 'Shadowland' crossover, which I read a couple of months back, and starts well by introducing yet another possible new love interest for Matt (I can't help thinking the endless string of beautiful women is wasted on a blind man). However, it then launches into a two-parter featuring Fantastic Four villain Klaw that I found near-incomprehensible. Then Matt comes into possession of something called 'The Omega Drive,' a piece of technology that holds info on five worldwide terrorist groups including Hydra and A.I.M., for a plot that's drawn out too long. Matt's then abducted to Latveria and is relieved of his powers. He regains them thanks to Hank Pym, but a succession of events have led Foggy Nelson to believe Matt is losing his mind and he dissolves their law partnership. That lasts until Matt's "madness" is revealed as a gaslighting plot by a returning enemy. With Nelson and Murdock restored, Foggy reveals he has cancer and DD battles the Sons of the Serpent, a white supremacist group who've infiltrated all aspects of the justice system. (That must be the reason all those poor, misunderstood black youths are sent to jail after selflessly relieving old people of the burden of their weighty valuables, according to Waid.) The run climaxes with Matt confirming his long-suspected dual identity to the court in order to foil being blackmailed and he and Foggy being disbarred as a result.

I always assume I'm going to enjoy Mark Waid comics more than I actually do. He can be a great writer and he occasionally is here, though I've no doubt this run is held in higher esteem than is deserved due to art by Paolo Rivera, Marcos Martin and Chris Samnee, three of the best artists working right now. Unfortunately, Waid grossly disappointed me recently when he had a hissy fit on Twitter and branded ex-Muslim and anti-Islam cartoonist Bosch Fawstin a "white supremacist." (Somebody should tell this moron not all Muzzies are brown.) I knew he was an outspoken libtard and had enjoyed his comics regardless, but that was plumbing new depths of leftist idiocy. Outside of anything he's already done for the Big Two, I'll be boycotting him from now on.


   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  


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Daredevil (2011) # 11-21, Avenging Spider-Man (2012) # 6 and Punisher (2011) # 10 are collected in:

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