And even if I don’t think this is the legendary ending to Zdarsky’s first half like others claim it is, it is still a solid enough one that kept me hooked enough to stay excited about the rest of this series.Īs we now have not one, two Daredevils, one of which is still masked and serving his prison sentence, whilst the other is taking over the mantle of her predecessor and fighting to protect the streets of Hell’s Kitchen. I’m still very interested to see how this big Marvel event will set up the upcoming second leg of Zdarsky’s DD run though. Even if just the last issue was drawn by him, it’d be a four-star book.Īs it stands, this was a good enough way for Chip Zdarsky to end the first half of his Daredevil run, even if the quality dips a bit in certain sections. And the issue Checchetto does isn’t even the most action-packed one of this series, so that was a weird issue to get him to draw. It’s not egregiously bad or anything, it’s just not Checchetto. I get he was doing Devil’s Reign at the time and wanted to get ahead and everything, but the fill-in art takes me out of the story sometimes.

I’m also not a fan of Marco Checchetto only getting to draw one of the six issues here.

I also started to warm back up to Matt’s arc once #35 rolled around, but god knows how many issues of finding the main character’s arc beyond annoying isn’t exactly the best sign. But again, as mentioned before, the Elektra and Fisk storylines are still going strong and saved this volume. The ending of issue #33 straight-up made me think I missed a tie-in issue or something for a second. I have found pretty much everything regarding Matt in these past two volumes to be jarring as fuck and not very fun to read. So this volume isn’t all bad.īut as mentioned before, everything with Daredevil investigating the antisocial rage drug keeping people in prison is completely underbaked, uninteresting, and way too over-the-top to work for me though. Elektra’s Daredevil still shines in her arc this volume when she has to go against Bullseye and some of his clones though, and the ending with the Kingpin sets up Devil’s Reign PERFECTLY.

I still hated the prison arc throughout these past two volumes though, and it just got way too fucking schlocky around issue #33 for me. But thankfully, Matt finally gets out of prison by the end of this volume and is back to being Daredevil. I started to sour a bit on this book last volume due to how uninteresting I found Matt’s prison arc to be, and I have soured on it a bit more since that arc continued being terrible this volume. OH NO MATT, HE ISN’T CONTENT!!! OH GOD OH FUCK!!!

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