Yes, I know, I jumped
ahead and by quite a bit. When I last left this new Daredevil series, the blind
superhero of Hell’s Kitchen had just finished up a battle with Klaw: The Living
Master of Sound. Daredevil had also uncovered a cabal of super villain
organizations that were working to create a database of the collective secrets
of the world’s governments, mega-corporations, and the rich and famous. I think
the next issue I needed to read (in order to stay ‘in order’) was issue #11.
Well, I’m reading
volume 6 now which starts off with issue #28. So, I’ve missed about a years or
more worth of storyline. Foggy Nelson is on disability with cancer, Matt
Murdock is on his own and drowning in paperwork and responsibilities as
Daredevil, and that cabal I talked about is a thing of the past.
Speaking of the past,
it catches up with Murdock when a schoolyard tormentor comes to him for help in
a wrongful arrest suit. When Matt agrees to help in makes him and his Daredevil
alter-ego the target of a new threat- the white supremacist terror group the
Sons of the Serpent. (BTW- this group is not to be confusion with the Serpent
Society. That group is a bunch of super villains that employ snakes, have
snake-like powers, and serpent codenames. The Sons are a lot like Cobra, just more
evil and fonder of white sheets.)
I know I broke my rule
against spoilers by jumping ahead. But I couldn’t help myself. This was the
next volume my library had plus the volume I found has the MarvelNOW! Imprint on
it and I wasn’t sure if this was a continuation of volume 1 or not. (Apparently,
Marvel did not reboot the series when they created the MarvelNOW! Imprint. I
guess this new series come out too soon to confuse readers with yet another
retooling of the series and thus why some volumes say Marvel and later editions
say MarvelNOW!) I still want to read issues 11-27 and I will get to them. I was
so hooked on the series I just had to read what happened next even if that
meant skipping 5 volumes worth of stuff.
The art, though drawn
by a different team of artist, continues to innovate and amaze. The color
scheme seems to stay bright and vibrant. It’s all perfect. Plus, Mark Waid just
keeps taking the Man without Fear to higher and higher levels of awesome. There
are some shocking elements in the book and I was hooked on all of it.
Sadly, Volume 6 only
has 3’new’ issues. The last 2 issues are taken from Indestructible Hulk. Yes,
those issues guess star Daredevil, but they’re already been reprinted in IH
Volume 2 and I would’ve liked to read some Daredevil stuff that I had yet to
seen prior. Had I bought this instead of checked it out from my library, I
would’ve felt gyped. So, be aware of this if you are trying to collect both
series in reprint form. It’s a good thing that those 2 issues are excellent and
worth a re-read.
Worth Consuming.
Rating: 8 out of 10
stars.
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