| Title | : | Daredevil, Volume 2 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0785152393 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780785152392 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 |
| Publication | : | First published June 13, 2012 |
| Awards | : | Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Best Continuing Series, Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) ("Daredevil #7"), Best Writer (for Mark Waid) (2012) |
Collecting: Daredevil 7-10, 10.1; Amazing Spider -Man 677
Daredevil, Volume 2 Reviews
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Buddy read with the lovely and awesome Anne.
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Daredevil is the last superhero you would want watching your kids. His being blind is the least of your worries. Take the first issue of this collection as a warning. He’s riding in a bus as his alter ego, attorney-at-law and babe magnet, Matt Murdock, accompanied by some underprivileged kids. It’s cold and snowing heavily. The bus crashes and the bus driver is killed. He in short order: hollers at the kids, changes into his Daredevil costume (How does this help? Now, these kids know his secret identity and the damn thing isn’t fur lined), disses Spiderman (let’s face it, the Web head had it coming), loses a kid, tries to give them a lame pep talk and .
The kids would have been in better hands with Dr. Doom. I hear he can make balloon animals.
The rest of this issue has a Spiderman story already published elsewhere (GAH!), an encounter with the ultra-creepy Moleman and one of the better superhero-in-prison-just-visiting-but-now-in-danger-and-not-trying-to-reveal-his-secret-identity-even-though-a-bunch-of-kids-on-a-crashed-bus-and-half-of-New-York-already-know-it story line since Clark Kent visited Lex Luthor in prison in All-American Superman (the highlight of that collection). -
7 - Daredevil takes some kids on a field trip and the bus wrecks in a blizzard.
This was some serious shit. Daredevil and a busload of kids, most of them blind, wandering through a blizzard. Once again, Waid plays up what it's like to be blind, with or without radar sense. Good shit.
Amazing Spider-Man 677 - Fresh from being dumped, Spider-Man encounters the Black Cat. Shortly thereafter, she's arrested for breaking into Horizon Labs. Since he knows she was framed, Spidey enlists Daredevil to help him clear her name.
This issue demonstrates why Spider-Man and Daredevil have always worked well together and contrasts their crime-fighting styles. It also emphasizes that Daredevil is also a lawyer.
8 - Spidey and Daredevil are in trouble and it sure looks like Black Cat is behind it. Also, cemeteries are being found vandalized and one of the graves affected is that of Battlin' Jack Murdock.
That was pretty serpentine. The interplay between Spidey, Black Cat, and Daredevil was really enjoyable. I like where things are going with Daredevil and the Black Cat.
9 - The Mole Man is behind the graverobbing but why? That's what Daredevil means to find out!
Lots of good shit in this. Daredevil using a coffin as a raft. Mole Man dancing with a corpse. And the Black Cat has her paw in the cookie jar while Matt's underground. I love that Mark Waid is moving Daredevil away from the gritty crime corner of the Marvel Universe he's been trapped in for years.
10- Matt settles things with the Mole Man. Meanwhile, what's happened with the Omega Drive?
The battle with Mole Man was pretty great and the epilogue was also well done. I also liked how things went down with the Black Cat.
10.1 - Matt visits Pyromania in prison, a man Daredevil brought in. Turns out the word is out about the Omega Drive.
Pyromania telling Matt his version of his fight with Daredevil while seeing how it really went down was a nice touch. Things are progressing nicely. I'm guessing the Omega Drive will be the focus of the next volume.
Closing Thoughts: Mark Waid has done a lot to bring Daredevil out of the funk he's been in pretty much consistently since Frank Miller ran him through the meat grinder 30 years ago and into the Marvel Universe as a whole. The Omega Drive was a great maguffin and I'm hoping the Black Cat sticks around for a while. 4.5 out of 5 stars. -
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The Incredible Hulk!
I've never found a Daredevil book that's excited me. Maybe I've never read the right title, by the right author, but nothing's ever made me go, Yeah! Daredevil! That guy is awesome!
This one was kinda close, though.
Instead of being on the moody Catholic guilt trip, Murdock seems a bit lighter and more optimistic.
It starts with a quasi-touching little story about Matt taking some orphaned kids on an ill-fated journey to some camp.
Maybe it's not a camp. It was snowing...so whatever you take kids to do in the snow. How the hell should I know, I've lived in hot climates my entire life. Occasionally, we get a inch or two of the icky white stuff, and it's enough to make me want to immediately move to the tropics. Maybe he was taking them skiing? But giving kids pointy sticks and telling them to slide down a mountain sounds like a bad idea to me, so...
Sorry. I'm going totally off-topic, aren't I?
Anyhoo. Orphans, bus, snow, blind chaperone.
Really? Not sure if that was the best idea anybody ever had. I mean, the least they could have done was send a nun along for the ride.
You know, just in case the bus driver had a heart attack, and the bus careened off the side of a mountain or something...
Lucky for Daredevil, these were the good kind of orphans (as opposed to the evil kind of orphans), and they managed to drag his ass to safety.
Moral of the story: Snow is bad, and blood loss is a bitch.
I think I'm in the minority, but my favorite story was the one with Spider-Man.
Black Cat has been arrested for stealing something, and Spidey asks Matt to help clear her name.
Cuz, for once, she didn't actually do it!
It had more humor to it than the other two tales, and that's a big plus in my book. Besides that, I'm just a Spider-Man fan, and it was nice to see him again.
After all that, Mole Man starts stealing bodies from a cemetery. And one of those bodies is Battlin' Jack Murdock's!
Bum, Bum, Bum....
Turns out, the poor little dude just wants to dance with the corpse of a woman he used to work with topside.
That's not creepy at all.
Then Matt goes to visit Pyromania in prison to check on his living conditions.
I'm not sure about the back story between these two, but apparently DD sent him to jail.
Murdock kicks his ass, and then agrees to represent him.
The End.
Ok, not quite The End.
He still has to deal with the guys who are trying to get hold of some NotSureWhatTheFuckItIs device that Reed gave him. But it's got information about all the bad guys on it, and somehow if it gets out Governments WILL Topple! The bad guys all want it, and Daredevil (for some reason) can't turn it over to the authorities.
So.
He (sort of) finds a way out of the mess. For now, anyway.
In the end, I liked this one a lot. Especially for a DD title.
If I can find more of Waid's run on this one, I'll definitely check it out. -
Still enjoying this series. I know that this is a shift in tone for Daredevil, from ultra-angst to something on the lighter side. I really like it. It makes Matt feel relatable, at least to a certain extent. If he were nothing but a ball of misery all the time, it wouldn't have much of an impact when his father's coffin vanishes underground. At any rate, I really like this version of Daredevil.
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This was pretty good.
Taking place after Matt had stolen the omega drive, it contains stories where Matt teams with some children and rescues them after their bus driver crashes and bails on them and then the team up with Spider-man to clear his name or handle the insanity by going against the Mole man who had taken his father's corpse or even trying to prevent his public identity being leaked? Cool volume and takes some risks and like swings for the fences, in the every day life of Matt and there is an overarching story but I like these small time villains and face off and team ups and everything. Pretty good and the art is so lovely. -
Mark Waid continues his inspired reinvention of the Daredevil character from the moody, troubled man he was after Frank Miller was done with him in the 70s/80s and a string of other writers continued, to taking the character back to his cheerful, happy-go-lucky roots who smiles and has a good time. I have no desire to read yet another angst-y vigilante with "problems" book so it's great to see a superhero enjoying being a superhero for a change especially one who's been written as a depressed, sometime insane, and all-round gloomy guy for so long - the cover of issue #7, the Christmas issue, says it all.
Nowhere is the change in direction more apparent than in the opening story where Foggy reminds Matt that he's sat in his darkened office brooding, prompting him to emerge, smiling and wearing a "I'm Not Daredevil" shirt, flirting with the ladies and enjoying the party. He also takes a group of blind kids on a trip which ends badly after the bus crashes and they're stranded in the snowy woods. This opening issue is definitely my favourite of the book.
Worryingly, Waid takes Daredevil down the old dark ways again when Moleman and his Moloids plunder the graveyard where Matt's dad "Battlin'" Jack Murdock is buried so Daredevil descends to the world beneath the ground which looks like Hell. This was the weirdest story not least because Mole Man was a shlumpy scientist only now he wears a cheesy Silver Age outfit and is somehow matching Daredevil in combat! But it's visually interesting and has this mild gothic horror vibe to it that's cool.
The main story, as continued from the first book, is that Daredevil has a device called the Omegadrive, formerly the property of the Fantastic Four (and looking like an FF badge) which is a storage device that contains information on five of the world's biggest crime agencies (Hydra, AIM, the Black Spectres, Agence' Byzantine and the Shadow Empire). All five are after him and one of them enlists Black Cat, aka Felicia Hardy, to steal it from him. She and her old flame Spider-man cross over with Daredevil in a fun issue. Waid knows how to write Spidey really well and the dialogue between him and Daredevil is fantastic - you get a real sense of a history and a strong friendship there.
I have some very minor complaints that didn't really detract from my enjoyment of the book. It ends in a very similar way to the end of the first book which again underlines Waid's unusual approach to the character and his treatment of the superhero in this series - but I kind of wish it didn't feel so much like the first book's ending.
Paolo Rivera's art is as wonderful as it was in the first book - his depiction of DD's radar sense is awesome - but I wasn't as convinced of the quality of the other artists on the book. Emma Rios drew Spidey with small, squinty eyes that looked like slits rather than full eyes which was odd, and Khoi Pham really goes overboard with Black Cat's cleavage, giving her massive knockers that are ready to pop out of her ridiculously low-cut one-piece at any moment!
I wasn't fully on board with the series after the first book but this second book has won me over. Matt's character shines through strongly in this book and there's enough variety and action in his adventures to keep the book from becoming slow and stale. An excellent, upbeat and exciting Daredevil adventure - I'm starting to see why it's such an acclaimed series. -
I like what Waid is setting up with this volume.
The art is perfectly matched to the hornhead and his powers.
Plus who doesn't love a good team-up? Short though it may have been.
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This is the kind of stuff that makes comic fans a bunch of disgruntled malcontents who can never be happy.
I’ve ranted before about how
Marvel has made a hash out of it's volumes and numbering systems making it increasingly difficult for someone working through the trade collections to read stuff in order. I knew that Mark Waid had done a new phase of Daredevil, and it’s something I was curious about so when I ran across this collection labeled Volume 1 at the library, I grabbed it and gave it a read. Then I planned up to write up yet another one of my witty and insightful reviews telling the fine folks of Goodreads my opinion about it.
Of course, it couldn’t be that easy because while I got what’s listed as Volume 1 with the same cover matching what Goodreads lists as #1, it actually seems to be some kind of omnibus edition that actually includes all the issues through #10 along with an issue of Spider-Man. But the edition here lists it only as covering #1 -6 with Vol. 2 having the # 7 – 10 and the Spider-Man issue. I cannot find any edition on Goodreads that actually covers what was in the book I read.
Goddamnit, I just want to read about a blind lawyer who spends his nights acting as a vigilante in red tights beating up criminals. Why does it have to be so complicated?
So I’m posting the same review for both Vol. 1 & 2 and calling it a day. I’ll also get credit for 2 books on the challenge. That’s what you get for not having the correct editions, Goodreads! Rampant cheating of the system!
Onto the review:
Frank Miller deserves a lot of credit for making comics more mature and darker in content. Frank Miller also deserves a lot of blame for making comics more mature and darker in content. While it was his work on Batman’s The Dark Knight Returns that most people point out at as a watershed moment, Miller dished out far more abuse to poor Matt Murdock who he treated like a noir hero who was destined to suffer. Just as countless creators spent years trying to make Batman as grim as possible after DKR and Year One, almost every writer after the Daredevil Born Again storyline seemed to follow the Miller template of destroying Murdock every few years. Even popular runs by Bendis and Brubaker followed the Miller Maxim that Daredevil must be forever picking up the pieces of a shattered life.
And that made for some interesting stories but at this point, what else could you do to the poor bastard? Now that there seems to be some interest in rolling back the dark black curtains and letting a little sunshine into comic stories again, it’s nice to see Matt Murdock smile. He’s decided that he’s tired of all the brooding grimness, and he wants to get back to being the swashbuckling hero he started out as. It almost seems like a testament to the power of positive thinking because in the old days if Daredevil tried to break up a hit at a Mafia wedding, he’d probably have ended up covered in the brains of the lucky couple. Now he saves the day and gives the bride a big kiss that ends up on the front page of The Daily Bugle.
The only fly in the ointment is that the secret is still out that Matt Murdock is Daredevil and although his legal maneuvering has kept that from being officially acknowledged as fact, it also makes it impossible for him to argue a case in court since any opposing lawyer can simply point out his reputed history as a masked vigilante. But Matt’s can-do attitude carries over to a new business plan in which he and his partner Foggy start a new kind of legal business in which they coach people to represent themselves.
As a long time Daredevil fan, it made me stupidly happy to see Matt have some fun again. It also tones down the grungy street criminal factor and makes DD seem like a part of the routine Marvel universe again by having him mix it up with super-villains like Mole Man and team-up with Spider-Man as they try to clear Black Cat from a robbery accusation.
However, unlike a retcon, Matt’s old history lurks out there and sometimes makes his new attitude seem delusional, maybe even dangerous. There are also hints that DD’s methods remain shady for a superhero such as when he comes into evidence on the megacrime groups like Hydra and AIM, and instead of turning it over to the Avengers, he hangs onto and plays the factions off each other.
This was an interesting way to bring Daredevil out of the shadows but still keep some of the scar tissue he’s collected over the years. I’ll be reading more of this as long as I can figure out which damn book to get… -
Maintaining a secret identity is difficult when everyone knows who you truly are. Despite insisting that he isn't Daredevil, Matt Murdock is proving to be unsuccessful in changing the public's belief that he is indeed The Man Without Fear. Letting the criticism and frustration roll off his back, Murdock continues to adopt this more positive outlook that was brought to the reader in Volume One.
After the events of Volume One, Matt has secured a hard drive that contains crucial information on five major crime syndicates in New York City. This of course, makes him a marked man. While those in pursuit of the hard drive try and form a plan of attack (look for a great confrontation near the end), Daredevil is preoccupied with the sudden disappearance of several caskets following the collapse of a local graveyard. What makes this robbery special for Matt? His father was one of many laid to rest in that location.
Many have been praising Mark Waid's approach to Daredevil since the re-launch in 2011. Taking him out of the dark and applying a lighter, more comedic style has certainly given the character a fresh coat of paint. While I was a little hard on the new approach in my review of Volume One, I found myself enjoying it a little more this time around. With the exception of that Spider-Man story placed in the middle of the book, I thought this was a better effort than the first collection.
While I wasn't crazy about seeing him battle Mole Man, I did like where the book finished overall. From what I gather, Mole Man was at one time a pretty big adversary of the Fantastic Four and hasn't been focused on much since the 1960s. How he became who he is, while interesting, didn't really transfer into a compelling story with Daredevil. Although, it did allow a bit of the old Matt Murdock to shine through in his anger directed toward the subterranean dweller.
There’s also this weird story that kicks things off involving Matt taking a bunch of visually impaired children on a field trip. The whole excursion runs into trouble when a sudden blizzard hits causing the school bus carrying all involved to crash leaving them stranded. Matt struggles to keep the kids’ spirits high while searching for help but succumbs to a leg injury leaving their survival in doubt.
There's a lot to look forward to in Volume three with appearances by Punisher, Spider-man and an apparent return to Latveria. I'm wondering how long they can keep Matt Murdock this positive before his true nature begins to shine through.
This is one of those few instances where I wish I could give a book 3.5 stars.
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Daredevil by Mark Waid Vol. 2 collects Marvel Comics issues Daredevil 11-21, Avenging Spider-Man 6, and Punisher 10 written by Mark Waid and Greg Rucka with art by Chris Samnee, Marco Checchetto, Khoi Pham, and Michael Allred..
Daredevil must protect the Omega Drive, a device that contains all the financial information and intelligence on the world's biggest criminal organizations, from an endless juggernaut of evil henchman. Later, someone is targeting Matt Murdoch, trying to make him appear that he is losing touch with reality and may be a danger to the public and himself.
This volume has some solid story arcs. I loved Daredevil teaming up with Spider-Man and Ounisher as their different viewpoints play off each other nicely. The art in these stories have been really good as well. Fans of Daredevil should really enjoy these issues. -
This picks up a bit from Volume 1, starting with a single issue story about Matt out on a field trip with some blind kids. That issue is one of the better ones of any character I've read in a while. It manages to cut right to the core of things without being lame and preachy, which many kiddie-involved books do.
There's another story involving the Mole-Man, and the disappearance of the casket of Jack Murdock and others, which shows a literal descent into hell, much like I believe the last 10yrs of Daredevil storylines have been. It was OK, but nothing super amazing.
The rest of it follows the Omega Drive from Volume 1, and includes a team up with good old Spidey! Waid writes Peter and Matt very well together, and the history between the 2 comes across very well, in that they seem almost at ease with each other. Throw in an appearance by Black Cat, and there's a bit of a monkey wrench thrown in that group of three, but an enjoyable one for sure, when Black Cat is arrested and only Matt Murdock can help...
The art in Daredevil continues to be fantastic, a day-glo retro feel, but very clean (like the Hawkeye art is retro, but not-clean, yet still brilliant). I am certainly enjoying these exploits of Daredevil quite a bit, where in other instances I had trouble getting into the character and his story. I still enjoy the use of the echo-location radar mapping as a visual guide to what MM/DD sees. -
Great story with the blind kids, but an odd diversion from the main super-plot about megacrime, a SuperDrive (better than the Apple product, if you can imagine that) and Murdock keeping three steps ahead of deadly conspiracy (or something equally bombastic - where's Wacker when you need him?)
The crossover with Waid's first parter in Amazing Spider-Man falls a little flat, and I think it's because of the not-quite-there art by a persona known as "Kano". (Seriously? Who is this joker, giving themselves the Madonna or Jock treatment?) Also doesn't help that the smooth humour from Part 1 didn't stick around for Part 2. (Or again, it might be that the character drawings deflated any good sense the jokes had and they fled in embarrassment.)
Matt's tussle with Mole Man is a little poignant but ultimately inconsequential. Sad that that's how this plays out, as it could be so much more. Still, not bad.
(Marvel Unlimited didn't have the 10.1 issue so I don't actually know how that played. Assuming it's like most .1 books, it'll be a one-and-done re-entry point for the mythical "new readers", and I won't have missed anything except possibly a good story.)
If not for a little of the old Murdock paranoia and self-damage creeping in, I wouldn't think nearly as highly of this volume as I do. -
Good, solid stories here. The Black Cat is an interesting addition to the book. Definitely a Batman/Catwoman vibe going on here. The story about the Omegadrive is going on a bit long, though, and the Mole Man story near the end was just creepy, and not in a good way.
Nice to see Matt Murdock on the sunny side of things, though. His personality shines through every page he's present. Good work from Waid on that one. -
Well, Daredevil, we had some good times together, but it seems that our time is over, now that they´re trying to make you upbeat, your comic is going downhill, it´s a shame my friend. I recognize that Brubaker did some really bad stories with you, then Andy Diggle really messed things up badly with all the Shadowland crap, and in the last collection it seemed like a slow but interesting new approach by Mark Waid, but this collected edition doesn't get better.
It´s amazing how many stories Waid was able to fit into a single collected edition, but none of them stand out, and even worse is the fact of how uneven in quality the artists drawing this title are (which happens almost everytime there are several artists in a collected edition), Paolo Rivera is good ( not as good as he was in the previous collection, but still good enough), but the other ones, who I´m not even going to look for their names, are really underneath a good level.
The only reason I did not give it a single star was because it got me engaged enough not to leave it, but this is a really bad story and the art has some huge lows in here.
The fist story is ok, but it has some really strange things in it. Matt decides to take some blind kids into the woods or someplace that they can´t reach because they crash. After the crash, why does Matt puts his mask on? that´s total nonsense, if he´s trying to keep his daredevil persona as far as possible from his Matt Murdock identity, this is the worst way to achieve it.
Later, when Matt is guiding the kids through the forest, by mistake, he yells at them to run, the kids start running all over the place, thinking that something is chasing them, but all of a sudden, they all react when Matt gets injured, even with their blindness, being scattered all over the place, with the sound of the strong wind that Matt mentions, all the kids are able to notice that something happened to Matt, and they immediately help him. This is nonsense again, and also extremely corny. I´m willing to read the adventures of a bright daredevil, but a corny one, after some of the great dark ages he has gone through? no thanks.
Then there´s the story with spider-man and the catwoman from marvel. This story has some nice moments, but that´s it. The interaction of the three of them is fun at times, this new love triangle gives probably the best moment in the whole book when peter realizes that it was a terrible idea to have this two working together.
The covers that Lee Bermejo did for this stories are great, they can be found at the end of the book. I really like how he depicts Spiderman with a slovenly suit (this makes it look like Peter really made it when he was a teenager and and also makes the webs look like they have been restored time and time again, Matt wears a suit that has some remembrance of a fighter/wrestler.)
Then there´s the story of the Mole Man. What the hell is this? In the marvel universe there´s Asgard, a strange place where gods live and which can be depicted as a flying island, there is also the savage land, that island where there are still dinosaurs, there are pocket dimensions, and some other strange places and concepts that sometimes work in some stories. But if this wasn't enough for the strange geography of Earth 616, Dante´s Inferno is underneath NY inhabited by the Mole Man and some strange creatures. This underground place has just enough breathable air and water that a man can live there (and fight if the situation requires it so). I know that this Mole guy comes form far back with the Fantastic Four, but this is a terrible character, and his minions are also quite lame. So our villain decides to commit a crime so that he can get back with his wife who has been dead for quite a long time... poor Mr Freeze!, I mean Mole man, this is such a tragedy! And what a bad luck for Matt that his dad was buried in the exact same graveyard, what a relief that his friend Foggy was just there when things started getting weird. Also what was that with Mole Man being a breakdancer? this was like a scene from Martin Lawlence`s Big Momma, this old, fat hermit breakdancing Daredevil apart in the discoballsphera (yeah, like the stratosphere, there`s a disco ball layer of the earth in the marvel universe). Then Matt concludes that since no one is going to win, he´s going to grab some diamonds to put some blin blin into the graveyard. Thug life Matt! (just imagine the youtube video of this!)
And then there´s the final chapter of this book. OH BOY! Who is this undercover editor form DC comics that has managed to infiltrate Marvel, and gotten to a position where he selects the artists that get to work with important writers and titles such as Daredevil? This guy is a genuis, he hires some crappy illustrator for the book, who is so bad, that the reader ends up thinking that marvel is getting every cent that you paid for this book, because not a single dime goes to a decent artist. Marvel really needs to put attention to who they hire as their headhunters for artists.
I mean, Come on! how can you have Paolo Rivera next to this art aficionado? And working with one of the most important writers in the industry!? Bad idea marvel.
Then, there´s the story about the super hard drive, that pulls all the other ones together, but in the end it`s not very interesting, the most interesting point is that the bad guys hired black cat to steal it from Matt (but love was there to avoid it, just imagine Meatlof singing +I would do anything for love+), in the end I coulnd´t care less for the hard drive, or the Megacrime villians trying to get it ( though I liked when they started talking about the politics of attacking Matt and how that could be considered a direct attack to the avengers).
Also, can someone update the villians from the big evil corporations? they don´t just speak in an extremely boring way, but they dress and seeem like total idiots in a bad Halloween party. I was really tempted to skip the parts when they were scheeming together.
So this is it Daredevil, another of my extremely long reviews, and though I will read the following collected edition it´s very possible that it will be the last if your stories don´t get better, I certainly hope that they get better, and that you get a stable and good artist in your book, you certanly deserve it. Anyway, you´re still looking just a little better than with Brubaker, but don´t push your luck. -
55% | C+ | Good
"And this is why I don't team up with Spidey often. He never shuts up"A school trip gone wrong, a villain framed for a crime they didn't commit with a side of Spidey, a grave robber and more are all packed into this enjoyable second volume
With this one, I feel like the stories, none of which are bad, slowly get less and less memorable as you progress through the volume. The first with the children saving Matt is really sweet, the second is a nice Spider-Man crossover, the third is a graverobbing story with some emotional weight and the last is...well, I actually don't remember and I only read it last night 😅 Despite the hazy last story, I'm excited to continue on with this run as I feel quite invested in Matt as a character and can't wait to follow his journey. -
Najbardziej podobał mi się zeszyt z dziećmi i śnieżycą. Arc z Mole Manem, też był spoko i creepy.
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Super good volume! Great buildup to the Omega Drive event with a nice detour in Mole Man territory. A host of great artists are scattered throughout the book, Javier Rodriguez’ color being the one, sweet constant on art. Paolo Rivera’s covers are some of the best I’ve ever seen. All around awesome volume.
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I decided to re-read volume one before I sank my teeth into this volume, and the brilliance of this series is really hitting home. While we have a few well crafted one-offs in this collection, the real gold is the continuing story line surrounding the Omega Drive and a crossover with everyone's favorite web-head. If I have any criticism, it's that the art is a ll over the place in this volume. Thankfully, Rivera contributes his usual three issues, but we have Rios delivering the Spider-man issue, and Kano and Pham picking up the slack from the missing Marcos Martin, who is sorely missed here. Still, this book is worth every cent and a must own for those who were smart enough to pick up volume one.
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This book is just so much fun to read. We're starting to get a little more into Matt Murdock's psyche, with some of the old demons rearing their heads, but not enough to drag down the incredible joy Waid takes in writing this character. It's a vast departure for the Daredevil of the past 10 years or so, but I am now fully in love with this book. Fantastic art, quick-paced stories. This comic knows what's great about the medium and doesn't let it get overcomplicated.
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More fun lawyer by day, superhero by night, volunteer on the weekends daredevil! This volume has the same high energy fun as the first and has been quite the treat. The individual stories all touch on what makes daredevil daredevil. He will never stop grieving his father. He's a playboy and has a big blind spot (ahem) to when women are manipulating his weakness for them. And more than anything he wants to help his community from every angle he possibly can. This run is getting me excited about daredevil again after a handful of much lesser runs. The main arc carrying through the run will continue on and we'll see how he fares against a bunch of bad guys who can't cooperate together.
A note on black cat... I was very concerned at her first appearance, being drawn as the personification of a wet dream but she actually won me over. She's given layers and agency here that a lesser book wouldn't allow. She behaved in a way that was unpredictable but believable and that's the beginning of building an actual character. -
Volume two continues Mark Waid's run on Daredevil. I really loved the first volume in this series, and found this one to me worth my time as well, even if I did take some issues with the art.
The story here mainly springs from a crossover involving Spider-man and the Black Cat, while continuing on the Omegadrive storyline. There's also a secondary arc where Matt finds his father's casket stolen, which brings him on an underground journey where he faces off against Mole-Man. Both stories are really enjoyable, with some interesting twists. We continue to have artwork by Paolo Rivera, and we also get fine work by Emma Rios (who's art I like, although I find her style suits a more indie style, like DeConnick's Pretty Deadly, than a mainstream superhero line). I was less fond of the two other contributors, but the one I took the most issue with was Kano, mainly because of his depiction of the Black Cat. Listen, I get that she's sexy, but that doesn't mean that pretty much every panel she's in has to feature her ass or boobs thrusting out. Rivera draws her with a clear appreciation for her form but she never looks that objectified, even in a sex scene. Rios managed to draw her in a fricken towel, and she seemed less objectified there then when Kano drew her fighting crime. I'm probably devoting too many keystrokes to this, but it was really annoying, given that the graphic novel was really enjoyable beyond that.
If you like volume one, by all means continue with volume two. Mark Waid handles Daredevil very well, and I can't wait to see where he takes the character next. -
While I didn't like this volume quite as much as the previous one -- I wish that the wonderful Paolo Rivera had penciled all the issues, and the constant expository captions to re-establish who Daredevil is and what's currently happening in the story was a little distracting -- but it was still quite good, carried by Waid's new and compelling take on the classic character. I find myself a lot more interested in that side of it -- the character work, the relationships Daredevil has with those around him, and with himself -- than the ongoing story, which I feel is fairly standard comics fare. I did enjoy the interplay between Spider-Man and DD, and I enjoyed DD's brief tryst with Black Cat, and I'm still glad to see Daredevil as a book that's high on adventure rather than angst and darkness.
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My responses to Waid's revision of Daredevil echo (sorry, hard to resist the bad pun interjected) most of the negative reviews in the following trade paperback that suffers from inconsistent art beyond the exceptional cover. I have welcomed Waid's re-direction, but do feel this re-collected edition falls back to forced appearances being put into his scripting run on Daredevil by Marvel managers. Maybe the suspicion of undue interactions rendered is from reading Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story recently that underscored the ongoing pressure by corporate mandates of major line characters crossing over as sure selling tie-ins to drive sales.
The teaming of Spider-Man so soon into Waid's hopeful re-direction of Daredevil appears to indicate this ongoing capital directive, as the obvious pairing with Black Cat of a love triangle is further formulaic fluff re-spun.
A serious let-down for what seemed to be a promising turn by Waid, backed by artists Paolo Manuel Rivera and Marcos Martin in the initial collected volume. -
If you're not reading this book, you're doing something wrong. Mark Waid's Daredevil is superb. The art is fantastic, the storylines are fresh and exciting, and everything is falling into place to form a great over-arching plotline regarding the Omegadrive. The Spider-Man crossover is perhaps the weakest of the stories in this trade, with either the Christmas issue or the Point One being the strongest, but the difference in quality is negligble. The series is brilliant, and easy to get into for any new readers who fancy a look. Do yourself a favour and read this - now.
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Daredevil winds up with a hard drive full of information on five different crime organizations: A.I.M., Hydra, Agence Byzantium, The Secret Empire, and Black Spectre. They naturally want it but any one individual organization would have great leverage over the other four. While they work out a deal to cooperate, Matt Murdock gets on with his life.
After a one-off adventure where Murdock saves and is saved by a bunch of kids on a winter bus trip, the action starts in full force. Spider-man comes by asking for legal help--his friend/former lover Black Cat is in trouble. She's a master thief and is accused of stealing some high tech equipment from the outfit where Peter Parker works. The slip-up that got her busted seems fake. Daredevil and Spider-man investigate, though they don't need to break Black Cat out of custody. She does just fine for herself. The three work together to figure out what's going on.
Their adventure is cross-cut with a subterranean horror that Matt has to deal with--the cemetery where his father is buried has been graverobbed...from underneath! What sinister plan does the Mole Man have for the dozens of coffins his minions have stolen?
The stories are interested and Daredevil's new, more light-hearted characterization is fun. Matt attends a Christmas party with an "I'm not Daredevil" sweater, still trying to get out from under his identity being revealed. He doesn't find as much humor in situations as Spider-man does (but who can match Spidey in that department?), but he isn't mopey or conflicted like a lot modern superheroes. He still deals with serious issues without being glum.
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I read the first volume from this series a couple of weeks ago for free on Kindle Unlimited, while finding it an okay read, I had decided to not rush into reading this second volume. I decided to give this volume a go sooner than originally planned because I noticed that this volume was also available to read on Kindle Unlimited, so decided to make the most of my ability to read it.
I enjoyed some aspects of this volume more than the first, for example Spiderman featuring in this one made for a fun twist, and I really enjoy superhero crossovers.
Some of the pages in this one also had some stunning artwork, which really enhanced my reading experience.
I still felt that this volume lacked something though. I still didn't feel all that connected to Matt, again maybe this is coming from me originally knowing Daredevil through the TV show. It honestly feels like a totally different character, and that is causing me some real trouble to adjust to. There also wasn't enough of Foggy in this volume for my liking.
Again, I will probably continue on the series, but I definitely won't be rushing to pick up volume three, as it isn't currently available on Kindle Unlimited, and I certainly wouldn't pay for it. -
I don't know if this arc will continue taking the different groups down one by one, but it clicked here. I really liked the inclusion of Spider-Man and Black Cat - it helps add to the universe instead of just making it all about one hero versus one bad guy, which is definitely not the case in this run. I like that it doesn't shy away from emotional aspects of the characters, so I'm interested to see that develop more.
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“That’s the way justice works, Harvey, sometimes both sides lose.”
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Daredevil teams up with Spider-Man and Black Cat when a holographic generator goes missing. Him 'seeing' through the holograms is just as hilarious as you want it to be. This collection also features the infamous panel describing Spider-Man's supervillain origin. Meanwhile Black Cat tries to steal the Omega Drive from Matt Murdock and organized crime lingers in the background.
This collection also contains a single issue with Mole Man stealing coffins from a graveyard that is surprisingly beautiful. Comics are weird.
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Liked it almost as much as the first volume. Plus, since Daredevil and Spider-Man is my favorite superhero team-up, this was right up my alley.
