Daredevil by Miller & Janson Omnibus

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Collects Dark Reign: The List – Daredevil #1; Daredevil (1998) #501-512; Shadowland #1-5; Shadowland: Elektra, Bullseye, Ghost Rider, Spider-Man, After The Fall; Shadowland: Moon Knight #1-3; Shadowland: Blood On The Streets# 1-4; Shadowland: Daughters Of The Shadow #1-3; Shadowland: Power Man #1-4; Thunderbolts (1997) #148-149; Daredevil: Reborn #1-4 Miller] is influenced by architecture, he's influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright. He's influenced by design and thats something that we share. So in terms of our compatibility, we have several common interests, certainly creating mood and architecture in the city is a great part of that. The architecture and the environment has to be accurate and credible, that’s something that we both try to do. On the iconic action sequences throughout the run...

Also released as a limited edition hardcover which included the #1/2 issue and a CD-Rom with additional content (including the #0 issue). Ed Brubaker came to Marvel hot off the success of his Catwoman, Gotham Central, and his own Sleeper for DC and immediately relaunched Captain America into his Winter Soldier period with great acclaim. Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spider-Man #27-28, Daredevil #158-161, #163-191, #219, #226-233, The Man Without Fear #1-5, Daredevil: Love And War, material from Bizarre Adventures #28, What If? #28, #35, Elektra Lives Again, Elektra: Assassin #1-8 Daredevil (1998) #1-15 & 1/2; Daredevil: Father #1-6; Marvel Authentix: Daredevil #1; and material from Narvel Knights Double-Shot 1 During or After #1: ASM 438, NHAWK 1-3 After #4: Avengers, Vol. 3 #10-11, Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2 #1After #3: Amazing Spider-Man 16 & 18 After #4: Untold Tales of Spider-Man Annual ’97 After #6: Uncanny X-Men #13 I really enjoyed Kingpin. Frank was able to draw him in a very bulky, oversized way. On what readers visiting his run for the first time can expect...

By 2011 Daredevil had been put through the wringer for a decade with no sign of lighthearted superhero adventures in sight. Comic superstar Mark Waid took over the title with the idea that Daredevil had reached so many unimaginable lows over the past 13 years of comics that the only direction he could go was up. This book had some comedic moments, mostly with Turk. It was a nice way to break up the darkness of this. Spider-man and Daredevil have been fast friends since the 60s, giving writers some fantastic banter to work with while their artists draw high-flying adventure. Characterization is also a bit mixed for me with some characters being rather one dimensional (Foggy, Bullseye) while others are more well rounded or intriguing. Interpersonal relationships were well explored and less lionizing than the typical superhero fare which I appreciated as well.

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Love and War: This is a controversial one. The art is very strange. It has a dreamlike, surreal quality. I liked this one a lot, but many people do not. Collects (1964) #1-41 & Annual 1. Also includes Fantastic Four #73 and material from Not Brand Echh (1967) #4 Also note that, before Miller came along, the Daredevil comic was floundering on the edge of cancellation. Not only did Miller re-invent horn head, he literally saved his very existence. Love and War. A graphic novel contemporary with Miller's second run on Daredevil. It's beautifully illustrated by Bill Sienkiewicz and it's on an important topic: Wilson Fisk's attempt to revive his wife. By the time you get to the end, you even realize that it's a rather subversive superhero story. But along the way, that story is kinda' shallow: one kidnapped woman, one insane stalker, and that's pretty much it. [4/5]

An oversized hardcover depicting the original pencil art, complete with corrections and notes (but no colors).Technically, Elektra shows up in Daredevil’s solo series prior to the completion of issue #40 (the completion of Bendis and Maleev’s book 1). If you really want, you could start reading Elektra around Daredevil #30. Personally, I’d just fill in the solo Elektra if you’re so inclined. The Man Without Fear: An updated Daredevil origin story that is very good. My only complaint is that Elektra is supposed to be around college age and she looks like a 60 year old with bad plastic surgery. This run signalled a change in the winds of the comic landscape. A slight breeze had now come over it and Miller was creating it. On his Daredevil run, he broke the mold that had been the standard on marvel. His stories had depth, something that Marvel was struggling to find. The template was to have the hero meet the villain and for the villain to go to jail after a bit of a romp. Frank Miller didn’t do that. He made a villain who was too powerful and rich to go to jail. The template was not to let stories spill over into the next issue too much. Frank Miller used every issue he had on this run to tie into the last one he wrote and made everything connected. The breeze in the comic landscape was truly blowing and in a few years when The Dark Knight Return came out, that breeze would turn into a tornado.

Around this time Daredevil makes guest appearances in New Avengers #31-34 (mostly a non-speaking participant), Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1, Trial of The Punisher #2, Deadpool Annual 1, Avengers A.I. #7, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #9-10, and Superior Foes of Spider-Man #9-10. We were bursting at the seams to try stuff. and one of the advantages to working on DAREDEVIL at that point was that the book was about to be cancelled so no one really had any investment from editorial or from management to say, “Oh you cant do this.” There were no real restrictions on us so we were allowed to sort of have access to all of the things that we wanted to do.I moved to New York sometime in the early '70s and never left. I always wanted to live in New York. I think that part of the fun of looking at those old DAREDEVIL issues is that it was dirty and gritty and impolite and all of that was very much true at that time. You probably wouldn't have chosen to live there [Hell’s Kitchen] during the '70s or the '80s. A 1988 graphic novel. #182 is only partially reprinted. These issues are also collected in Essential Punisher, Vol. 1 Epic editions are also listed below in their chronological placement, as they are frequently the only coverage of a specific run.