Books by Mark Waid
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review 1: Pretty disappointing series so far. The first issue of this series was pretty killer, and a refreshing experience after Shadowland, but this series hasn't really gone anywhere interesting. This book finally wraps up the Omega Drive storyline. The conclusion was fairly interesting...
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review 1: I'm really enjoying the backstory and the way how it's doled out in flashbacks and storytelling, slice by slice. I'm still not 100% sold on why the Plutonian went berserk/turned evil, but I'm sure there's still more to it that we don't know yet. A fascinating look into a hero t...
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review 1: We pick up Volume 8 with Plutonian back on Earth with a new crew of baddies, after having escaped the prison he was in and stranded Qubit in time and space. We also catch up with the surviving members of the Paradigm, some of whom we weren't sure of the status of at all...Surviv...
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review 1: I'm giving this book five stars for one reason. The chapter where Daredevil goes to the city of the Molemen is absolute genius. I love how they have been telling the story of a non-visual character through a visual medium, but this book truly shines when that character descends i...
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review 1: Just as awesome as volume one, but the art here is definitely lackluster. I was really disappointed in the artist change and hope they switch back to the old one. The story in this volume picks up where the last one left off, but now Jailbait has gone missing. I know it's bad tha...
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review 1: The potential good news is the Plutonian's sidekick appears to be OK. The bad news is the sidekick isn't really, since the Plutonian's greatest enemy, Luthor to his Superman, is possessing the body. Volume 4 goes from there, showing the Paradigm's escape from military custody, ...
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review 1: At this point in my life, with all of the comic books I've read and experienced along the way, I would have presumed it impossible for any series to be so strong 21-issues in. I realize that doesn't seem like such a large number, but it's huge these days where a new book will com...
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review 1: This whole end of the run focuses on a supervillain group known as the Sons of the Serpent, and I'm mystified why Waid decided to spend all this time on a bunch of hack villains who I've never heard of.Little heavy-handed on the anti-racism touches, aren't we Mark? I get being in...
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review 1: This could have easily been 4 or 5 stars. The plot itself is actually cool, and all the narrative beats are there. But for a standalone piece, I can only wonder what (other than having to draw more pages) kept it from being so rushed and therefore short.Peter Parker discovers he ...
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review 1: This series just keeps delivering. We explore a little bit of Plutonian's life as a youngster in one of his foster homes, and the damage that did to him...Also, the Paradigm group continues to fall apart as secrets are exposed, and new forces challenge for leadership.Meanwhile th...
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review 1: This is certainly not a stand alone story. It's very much an extension of the previous volume.The plot starts with Kaidan, and develops her power into something even more incredible. It seems there may be no real limit to her powers (barring the inability to tell a story).The ent...
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review 1: With the new Daredevil Netflix series coming up, I found myself coming to the stunning realization that I didn't know all that much about Matt Murdock. Sure, I had seen the not-so-great Ben Afleck movie, but as I comic book reader I had never picked up a Daredevil title, and had ...
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review 1: In “Irredeemable,” the Plutonian, the world’s greatest hero, snaps after a lifetime of trying to help humanity. Irredeemable Vol. 1, collecting issues 1-4, sets up the fall of the Plutonian with a bang, as he tracks down his former ally the Hornet. Drawn by Peter Krause (“Power...
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review 1: I do not think that artist Leinel Francis Yu is a a very good storyteller, though he does create some striking images, and that hurts the quality of this graphic collection. I liked the first three stories in spite of this because of the fresh take on an old character supplied by...
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review 1: So far, I'm feeling like this series is a lot like Joe Hill's Locke and Key - not in the subject matter, but in the general outline. Due to the action of demons, a group of otherwise likeable characters is pushed to the limit, revealing monstrous flaws. Despite them, they still...
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review 1: I gotta say, the first 'issue' in this trade was fantastic. A blind man caught in a snow-storm -- the danger felt more real than seeing DD take on the Hand or Bullseye. I felt the same way reading Hawkeye caught in Super Storm Sandy. The Spider-man and Black Cat story arc was fun...
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review 1: I remember thinking that this book didn't know what it wanted to be. A one-shot story about what go wrong when children are on a school bus in the middle of winter, a love triangle with Spider-Man and Black Cat, and a face-off with the mole man. All three of the stories were pret...
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review 1: This is the second collect volume in Mark Waid's highly critically (and fan) praised run on Daredevil. He is being lauded as bringing the fun back into Daredevil and I applauded him for that in volume one. In volume two...not so much. We still get some stories with good entertain...
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review 1: As this title transitions from an introduction of its premise to actively engaging its characters, there's going to be some good and some bad. Banner's assistants are given little to nothing of importance to do other than to be scene dressing. One of the female scientists disease...
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review 1: This book doesn't really carry the Irredeemable saga forward much, but it does fill in a lot of the blanks from the early days. I'm not thrilled at the linking of Plutonian and Max Damage on some deeper mythic level, but their respective stories and setups are interesting, just ...
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review 1: What happens when you capture a criminally insane murderer? Put him in an insane asylum of course! But when that insane murderer is the Plutonian, one of the most powerful beings in the universe, how do you treat and keep him locked up? Meanwhile on Earth, Survivor and the Paradi...
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review 1: The volume following the conclusion of a multi-volume arc is usually always a bit crap mostly for the absence of, and comparison to, a strong overarching narrative. But, while Daredevil Volume 6 is made up of one/two issue standalone stories, it’s a pretty decent collection.Matt ...
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review 1: Matt’s been rescued from Doctor Doom’s sensory deprivation experiments in Latveria though he’s in bad shape as Doom’s microscopic nanobots try to destroy his brain from the inside as Hank Pym, Stephen Strange, and Tony Stark fight to save Matt’s life! Meanwhile, someone seems to ...
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review 1: Following a shocking discovery by Foggy, Matt Murdock finds himself without a job. With his sanity slowly unraveling, can Matt keep it together and protect the citizens of New York as Daredevil or will a new threat in the form of the dangerous villain Coyote bring down The Man W...
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review 1: Tension creates pressure creates cracks.First the Plutonian cracked under the pressure of being the world's ultimate hero, now cracks are developing between those under pressure to stop his killing. When unity might create a strong enough defense to stand up to the threat he pos...
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review 1: Now it makes a whole lot more sense what I read in the last volume. I read six first and I was pretty lost. Backtracking, I can see the progression in the storyline. This one was more reflective, as the surviving members of the Paradigm look back at their lost comrades, and the...
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review 1: Good solid book. A little irritating in that the last third of the book I'd read in a different graphic novel - a perennial problem with the graphic novel is that stories are reprinted in multiple places.So the world knows that Matt Murdock in Daredevil and he's trying to convinc...
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review 1: Great series so far. Makes me want to read more Daredevil from Mark Waid and previous series.
review 2: Man, Mark Waid totally gets the character. What a great series. The art is also fantastic.
review 2: Man, Mark Waid totally gets the character. What a great series. The art is also fantastic.
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review 1: I loved this book, it was totally worth all the online hype and praise and all the awards it swept.
review 2: This whole series so far has been brilliant. Waid is really blowing me away with his work here.
review 2: This whole series so far has been brilliant. Waid is really blowing me away with his work here.
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review 1: The best comic book on the stands today!
review 2: 2nd book in a week with a blind character who has extranormal perception. COINCIDENCE?? maybe.
review 2: 2nd book in a week with a blind character who has extranormal perception. COINCIDENCE?? maybe.
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review 1: A neat take on a stubborn question about superheroics - namely, why do we assume that just because you have a lot of power that means that you're psychologically able to deal with it? Rather than be a story about a man who is powerful and decides it's more fun to rule the world, ...
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review 1: Great start, it's truly not your good/people first type of superhero.
review 2: Awesome book. Great storytelling and artwork. Really has me primed to continue the series.
review 2: Awesome book. Great storytelling and artwork. Really has me primed to continue the series.
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review 1: The flip side to Irredeemable...this one focuses on when the #1 Bad Guy goes legit, in response to the #1 Good Guy going apeshit crazy bad.I like what I see so far and great potential set up, especially the idea of what makes us hero/villain and what can change that. Looking forw...
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review 1: Continuing with the Marvel NOW! premise for The Hulk:* Hulk Smashes, Banner builds: being one of the smartest characters in the Marvel universe, Bruce Banner is set to create world changing/Nobel price worthy technological advances as a way to compensate all the destruction the H...
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review 1: Looking at this cover I was dubious about borrowing it from the library, not to mention reading it. It features Daredevil and what looked like the Munster’s extended family with pitchforks pointed at them front and center on the cover, yet it’s penned by Mark Waid, who has done ...
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review 1: The sister Peter Parker never knew he had drags him into an international espionage caper tied to the Parker parents' role as ace CIA agents. Also, giant Nazi robot. Notice how none of this has any connection to the things people like about Spidey? It's also set at a point in his...
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review 1: I loved this premise the second I heard it: Hulk plunges through time to try and resolve the breaking of time caused by Age of Ultron. No one else was dealing with the problem, and it was set up as a major one!Unfortunately, that's all just a facade. This is some largely unrelate...
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review 1: A collection of Batman stories where the Dark Knight gets to travel abroad. Bats visits Scotland for a family reunion and vacation and ends up trying to end a centuries old vendetta. He then flies off to Barcelona in search of Croc who is seeking to right the "injustice" of St....