Volume
5 sees a return to the standard of excellence I’ve expected from Mark Waid and
Chris Samnee. I think my biggest problem with volume 4 was that Matt Murdock
and Foggy Nelson work better when they are a team and have each other’s back.
When there’s a hint of doubt in the trust between the two of them, it really
ruins the character of this series. I don’t expect things to always be peaches
and cream with them but seeing them at ends, refusing to talk to one another,
and basically enemies is like the Lone Ranger pursuing Tonto for murder. It
just doesn’t work.
It’s a good thing that Matt and Foggy have
reunited because Foggy has just been handed the news that he’s got a very rare
and dangerous cancer. While trying to be his law partner’s main line of
support, Matt discovers a plot to destroy him and everyone around him
systematically. The ploy of the Coyote in Volume 4 comes full circle, when
Daredevil learns of a program designed to create virtual ‘clones’ of him by reenacting
the accident that blinded him as a child on kidnapped homeless men.
This issue had excitement, action, and most
of all, heart. The art continues to be a highlight of this series as well. I
wasn’t much of a Daredevil fan, by the run I’ve had on this series has turned
me into one. Not only in this volume required reading for comic book aficionados
but so is the entire 2011-2014 Waid/ Samnee run as well.
Worth
Consuming
Rating:
10 out of 10 stars.
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