It’s one of my favorites of all-time and this Ultimate Collection joined both halves together in one volume. If you are a fan of Daredevil and haven’t read this story, you probably should. Lark was probably the perfect guy to pick up this ball and run with it, as he’s done a lot of the more gritty noir-esque comics that Brubaker has written over the years.

In this series, Lark really captured the already established tone and vibe of the Marvel Knights era of the Daredevil series. Brubaker worked with Michael Lark, who is an artist that he actually works with fairly regularly. It also satisfied, unlike the end of Bendis’ tenure on the book.īeyond the story, the art in this is superb. This second half of the story is pretty fucking great too and the ending wasn’t anything I expected. This sets Matt off on a revenge quest within the prison walls and with that, we get one of my all-time favorite Daredevil story arcs.įollowing the prison story, we see Matt go to Europe, as there are more layers to the mystery surrounding Foggy’s death.

Pretty early on in the story, Foggy is murdered while visiting Matt in jail.

On the outside, we have someone else posing as Daredevil, while Foggy Nelson and Dakota North work to get Matt out of prison.

We also see The Punisher get himself arrested, so that he can also go to jail in an effort to help Murdock survive in there. So we start with Murdock in jail and with that, we see him have to survive while being locked up with a lot of the criminals he put there, including The Kingpin, The Owl, Bullseye, Hammerhead, Gladiator and a slew of others. Oh, and there’s the whole thing about Daredevil’s flash in the pan ex-wife that Bendis had to clunkily wedge into the mythos with romantic cringe that made me question the writer’s manhood.Īnyway, Brubaker doesn’t waste any time trying to make magic out of Bendis’ J. So Brubaker still has that bullshit to try and resolve while also having to figure out what to do with the title character being locked up in prison. Art by: David Aja, Michael Lark, Tommy Lee Edwards (cover)Īfter Brian Michael Bendis’ run on Daredevil ended in a weird spot because the guy just doesn’t know how to finish, we were treated to Ed Brubaker’s solid stint on the title.īrubaker had his work cut out for him, considering where the character of Daredevil was when this started and because Bendis literally spent about fifty issues going back and forth on whether or not the public knew Matt Murdock was Daredevil and still didn’t give that extremely drawn out, tiresome and annoying plot a definitive end.

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