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Daredevil ¡El Hombre Sin Miedo!: Corazones En La Oscuridad (2012)

by Mark Waid(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Graphic Novels & Comics

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Panini Comics España (Marvel Comics)

series

Daredevil Vol. III

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 entertainment value (survival story with a field trip with blind children) a great cross over with Spider-man guest starring the Black Cat and some lesser entertainment value (the Mole man story was a long journey for a trite moral). The art by Paolo is serviceable but doesn't pop as much as the first volume (and some of the graphic tricks lost their novelty they had in volume one). But we lose the "fun" Daredevil I loved. We are back to "weight of the world on his shoulders" Daredevil, with lovers betrayin... moreg him. The first story - the field trip with blind children was nice but don't think too hard about it. A field trip of sightless children without any supervision other than a BLIND MAN!? (no the bus driver doesn't count) And all the children escape injury? And they pull off what they pull off in the end? And through it all Matt is panicking and very out of character. The cross over with Spider-man is the highlight. It is always fun to see how these two characters interact. But the fact Black Cat gets so frisky, so fast, with Matt is a head scratcher. The two part Mole Man story, as I mentioned is a very bland story. And throughout it all, the set up from volume one looms over Matt's head, bringing too much darkness to the comic and it makes little sense. Matt has a hard drive that contains info that could throw five evil organizations into disarray. Why not just make the info public? Like all of it...for all five of them...all at once? Give it to S.H.I.E.L.D. or whatever. As I said, it makes little sense but is supposed to create this huge drama. Not loving that as a plot device. Not at all. Okay, I am being a bit hard on it in reaction to all the praise that it gets. I am offering a counter point. I still did enjoy it and still rate it above most comics out there. I guess I am not crushing on it as much as the other readers.
review 2: The first story in this volume is amazing. Matt Murdock is stranded in the woods (of upstate New York, I take it) with a group of blind schoolchildren during a blizzard. It's gripping stuff, and though you know that everything will work out all right in the end, Mark Waid manages to create a great deal of tension and suspense, making the reader fear for Matt's and the children's safety. And the art by Paolo Riveria is amazing. Unfortunately, things go far downhill after that. The two-part Spider-man crossover bored me. I didn't really care, and couldn't necessarily follow what's going on with Spider-man (especially in the issue reprinted from The Amazing Spider-man), and Matt's dalliance with the Black Cat felt a bit out of character to me. And the art, by Emma Rios in the ASM issue, is terrible. Kano's art in the DD half of the crossover is better only by comparison; both the anatomy and the layouts leave something to be desired. The art (by the returning Paolo Rivera) picks up a lot in the 2-part Mole Man story, but the story as a whole is a bit ridiculous and over-the-top for DD, unlike volume one of this series. The final story, from the 10.1 issue (part of Marvel's ridiculous numbering system), spends far too much time on DD/Matt and a lame super-villain called Pyromania (really?), and only the last couple of pages return to the ongoing storyline started in volume one, and the art in this issue (by Khoi Pham) is really only on a par with Kano's art from earlier in the trade. One of the things that (barely) saves this trade is Waid's dealing with DD's blindness and radar senses in ways that are far more realistic than usually seen in his comics. Overall, this trade is a serious misstep after how good volume one was. less

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