Book Review: Daredevil Volume 2 (Mark Waid)

Daredevil, Volume 2 by Mark Waid

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book features Daredevil (Vol. 3) #7-#10 and 10.1, and Amazing Spider-man #677. After finishing the first Daredevil Book by Mark Waid which ended with issue 6, you'd expect the magazine to focus on the Omega Disk. A Fantastic Four badge with enough information on it to sink every crime boss in the country--and you would be wrong.

It begins off strongly with Daredevil #7, a nice Christmasy story with Matt Murdoch helping out at a school for the blind and as Daredevil struggling to lead them through a snow storm. Heart-warming tale. A-

Next up is Amazing Spider-man #677 and Daredevil #8 which is a Spider-man Cross-over (aside: Why does anyone buy individual comic books when companies plot to make you buy as many books as possible to find out what happened) that involves the Black Cat being framed for a burglary, but Spider-man knows she's innocent as he was talking to her at the time. The Spider-man issue features Spider-man thinking admirably of Daredevil for his tenacity while in the Daredevil issue, Daredevil says he doesn't like teaming with Spider-man because he talks too much. I prefer the story in the Spider-man issue, but the art in the Daredevil is better. The actual frame story is resolved, however the Black Catis offered a job, stealing the Omega Disk. The story also seems to be an excuse for hooking up Daredevil and Black Cat in a shallow encounter. Grade: B

You would expect Daredevil #9 and #10 to focus on the Omega Disk and again you would be wrong. Instead, you have Daredevil going into action when a bunch of bodies including the body of his father are stolen underground. The perpetrator is the Moleman who is in search of one particular body, the body of a woman he cared for. To be honest, this part of the story is creepy, ghoulish, and very downbeat. The Black Cat meanwhile is taking advantage of Matt's preoccupation to local the Omega Disk. This plot point has a much more clever out come. Grade: B-

You would expect Daredevil 10.1 to talk about the Omega Disk and this time you'd be right. Someone was sent after Matt while the terrorist organizations that have been seeking it have been unable to get together leading to one of the most unusual superhero actions ever. This one is the highlight of the book. It gives hopes that in the next Daredevil Trade rather than constantly showing this important disk but never Doing anything about it, that we might at last deal with this issue.

It was a decent book overall (for a modern comic) but it makes me appreciate my gold and silver age books far more.





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