mercedes's Reviews (299)

What a total bore. Started out okay with the first issue, just went downhill from there. I'm not the greatest fan of silver age comics but they can certainly be enjoyable—unfortunately this wasn't. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who isn't a really, really big fan of Daredevil because these stories just aren't good. There's a whole issue about a villain who throws his cape over people... it's not exciting stuff. Daredevil's radar sense capabilities seem to change each issue, most of them not making much sense. Though let's all appreciate one of the greatest quotes of all time that appears in this volume, "they're all prominent, wealthy men... why do I sense danger?"

I really enjoyed this! I assumed it was just going to be one story rather than lots of short ones, but I think it worked better that way. Each story seemed to get even better than the last and I can see myself coming back to read them again. Very creepy, gorgeous art, and I think I'll still be trying to figure out what the hell happened in Our Neighbor's House a while from now.

I was super excited to read this because I love Barbara Gordon as Oracle, and this still managed to far exceed my expectations. I had no idea what the plot was going to be, and while the mystery itself was incredibly well written I loved that at its core this was just a story about the horrors of ableism and how disabled people don't need to be fixed or cured. I loved watching Barbara grow to feel confident in her wheelchair, I loved the supportive friendships, everything about this was just wonderful. Highly recommended!

A lot of mixed feelings with this one. It's my favourite volume so far, the story is just phenomenal and kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time, not to mention how good the art for the graphic fight scenes are... it was an almost perfect story. Unfortunately I'm just at the point where I think this series would be better without Eve at all. You get this hint of backstory and depth, which is then completely undermined by unnecessary boob jokes. Mark and Eve have gone through so many extremely traumatic experiences, complete with out-of-nowhere relationship progression, and then it's just back to them sleeping with each other at inappropriate times. They don't feel anywhere close to being a real or believable couple. I wish Kirkman was better at writing female characters—he succeeds sometimes with characters like Debbie—because it feels like such an uncomfortable contrast next to the amazingly written storylines.

One of my favourite volumes thus far, containing some really exciting issues. I will say, though, that I do miss the colouring by Bill Crabtree—his pastels made the art feel really refreshing for the 2000s and I will always prefer less conventional palettes to the typical realistic shiny colour style. I think the writing of the female characters has possibly hit its lowest point in this volume, it felt very much 'I'm not like the other girls'-esque. The will-they won't-they love triangle just felt tiresome in my opinion and I don't like how differently Mark already treats Eve, who after... what? A few days? Gets multiple big, thoughtful dates, compared to Amber and Mark's burgermart and movie meetups.