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Daredevil Epic Collection
Daredevil Epic Collection, Vol. 19: Root of Evil
Collects Daredevil (1964) #333-344 And Elektra: Root Of Evil #1-4.
Dark times for Daredevil — and Elektra! When DD heads underground, he gets drawn into an ordeal involving Bushwacker, the Devourer and…Deathlok? But as things get explosive, is the biggest menace the underground King — or the rising Kingpin? Out of costume, it's Matt Murdock no more — now he's Jack Batlin, street hustler! But when a Kruel menace targets Matt's friends, "Jack's" old life quickly comes back to haunt him! It's time for the 'Devil to do a little soul-searching, before his identity crisis pushes him over the edge! Will Nick Fury and the Punisher play a part in the return of the "real" Daredevil? Plus: DD's former flame, the assassin Elektra, stars in her own epic tale of darkness and deception — taking on the Hand and the sinister Snakeroot!
Dark times for Daredevil — and Elektra! When DD heads underground, he gets drawn into an ordeal involving Bushwacker, the Devourer and…Deathlok? But as things get explosive, is the biggest menace the underground King — or the rising Kingpin? Out of costume, it's Matt Murdock no more — now he's Jack Batlin, street hustler! But when a Kruel menace targets Matt's friends, "Jack's" old life quickly comes back to haunt him! It's time for the 'Devil to do a little soul-searching, before his identity crisis pushes him over the edge! Will Nick Fury and the Punisher play a part in the return of the "real" Daredevil? Plus: DD's former flame, the assassin Elektra, stars in her own epic tale of darkness and deception — taking on the Hand and the sinister Snakeroot!
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First published July 25, 2018
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November 28, 2023
After Chichester-whose run ended far less well than it started- everything goes downhill. It’s all collected here ya lucky devils!
Gregory Wright starts with an absurd story set in NY’s sewers, reusing characters from the worst part of Frank Miller’s period. He throws every dumb idea that came to mind into the plot-a Mayan Deity, a former supe nobody ever heard of before, Bushwacker and...Deathlok (!?)- stirs it and throws it in your face.
Tom Grindberg mediocre art doesn’t sweeten the pill.
D.G. Chichester fares a bit better with the Elektra: Root of evil mini-series. He obviously writes better than Wright but in the end I can’t help but wonder: so what? No real point here and I had to endure Scott McDaniel on the artboard to boot.
The last arc could have been slightly interesting. It revolves around an event taking place years ago involving several characters directly related to Daredevil. But whatever potentially interesting development is shot to death with miserable writing and major incoherences. First it boldly spits in the face of continuity when reuniting these people in impossible circumstances/time frames. Then the way Kingpin deals with them simply makes no sense. It also brings back a character to sordidly get her killed two pages later for nothing more than (pseudo) shock value.
The so-called writer even signed it under the name of Alan Smithee; I reckon that says it all.
Artwise: several artists and as many shades of mediocre again.
Conclusion: Run, you fools! And stay away from this collection.
Gregory Wright starts with an absurd story set in NY’s sewers, reusing characters from the worst part of Frank Miller’s period. He throws every dumb idea that came to mind into the plot-a Mayan Deity, a former supe nobody ever heard of before, Bushwacker and...Deathlok (!?)- stirs it and throws it in your face.
Tom Grindberg mediocre art doesn’t sweeten the pill.
D.G. Chichester fares a bit better with the Elektra: Root of evil mini-series. He obviously writes better than Wright but in the end I can’t help but wonder: so what? No real point here and I had to endure Scott McDaniel on the artboard to boot.
The last arc could have been slightly interesting. It revolves around an event taking place years ago involving several characters directly related to Daredevil. But whatever potentially interesting development is shot to death with miserable writing and major incoherences. First it boldly spits in the face of continuity when reuniting these people in impossible circumstances/time frames. Then the way Kingpin deals with them simply makes no sense. It also brings back a character to sordidly get her killed two pages later for nothing more than (pseudo) shock value.
The so-called writer even signed it under the name of Alan Smithee; I reckon that says it all.
Artwise: several artists and as many shades of mediocre again.
Conclusion: Run, you fools! And stay away from this collection.
January 12, 2025
2.5 stars.
March 31, 2025
3.5 Stars
I seemed to enjoy this more than most readers, but I suppose I'm not a very harsh critic. This isn't a classic Daredevil run by any means, but I found it to be at least average. It starts out with a story set in the sewers of New York City which ties into some older Daredevil stories, then we get a story that deals with an untold story of the past. I think most Daredevil readers look at the whole "armor costume" era as bad, and while I don't entirely agree with that, I'm also not going to argue the era's greatness. Not bad, but not that good either.
I seemed to enjoy this more than most readers, but I suppose I'm not a very harsh critic. This isn't a classic Daredevil run by any means, but I found it to be at least average. It starts out with a story set in the sewers of New York City which ties into some older Daredevil stories, then we get a story that deals with an untold story of the past. I think most Daredevil readers look at the whole "armor costume" era as bad, and while I don't entirely agree with that, I'm also not going to argue the era's greatness. Not bad, but not that good either.
July 26, 2021
Não dá pra defender o Demolidor de Armadura.
Nem quando ele vai investigar crimes nos esgotos, enfrenta o Bushwacker - cara que transforma o dedo num três oitão -, um lobisomem - o Destruidor -, o Rei do Esgoto - gordo, careca, fedido.
Nem quando, do nada, aparece o Deathlok morando nos esgotos - vai saber, né?
Nem quando a Marvel inventa um retcon com um antigo capanga do Wilson Fisk que quer vingança.
Nem quando é revelado que o nome do capanga é Victor Krueller. Muito menos quando descobrimos que o nome de guerra que ele usava nas ruas era "Kruel".
Sério, Kruel.
Acho que ele fazia casacos de pele com animais de estimação també.
Não dá pra defender o Demolidor de Armadura, quando o Kruel tem uma espécie de amnésia muito louca, ele só se lembra do Wilson Fisk quando baixa a porra em alguma testemunha de algo traumatizante do passado. Claro, todas as testemunhas são ligadas ao Murdock, e uma ex-namorada aletória morre, afinal é um gibi do Demolidor.
Também não dá pra defender a mini da Elektra.
Essa é tão ruim que eu me pergunto se alguém lia os gibis da Marvel antes de serem publicados.
Um irmão perdido.
Sério, a Elektra tem um irmão mais velho que nem ela conhecia.
O nome do cara é Orestes.
Orestes, filho bastardo do pai da Elektra - a mãe da Elektra era adepta do poliamor, o pai, não - manda matar a mãe da Elektra, enquanto grávida.
E essa é só a plotline do retcon ou de um episódio qualquer de Elektra del Bairro.
A história ainda é mais absurda, porque envolve os "Snakeroot", uma galera do mal do Tentáculo que precisa banhar uma espada em sangue inocente, e a Elektra cabe não deixar que a espada fique mágica enquanto ela se lembra, nas primeiras páginas de cada edição, de todas as violências que ela sofreu na infância.
Sério. Orestes.
Não dá pra defender o Demolidor de Armadura.
Nem quando ele vai investigar crimes nos esgotos, enfrenta o Bushwacker - cara que transforma o dedo num três oitão -, um lobisomem - o Destruidor -, o Rei do Esgoto - gordo, careca, fedido.
Nem quando, do nada, aparece o Deathlok morando nos esgotos - vai saber, né?
Nem quando a Marvel inventa um retcon com um antigo capanga do Wilson Fisk que quer vingança.
Nem quando é revelado que o nome do capanga é Victor Krueller. Muito menos quando descobrimos que o nome de guerra que ele usava nas ruas era "Kruel".
Sério, Kruel.
Acho que ele fazia casacos de pele com animais de estimação també.
Não dá pra defender o Demolidor de Armadura, quando o Kruel tem uma espécie de amnésia muito louca, ele só se lembra do Wilson Fisk quando baixa a porra em alguma testemunha de algo traumatizante do passado. Claro, todas as testemunhas são ligadas ao Murdock, e uma ex-namorada aletória morre, afinal é um gibi do Demolidor.
Também não dá pra defender a mini da Elektra.
Essa é tão ruim que eu me pergunto se alguém lia os gibis da Marvel antes de serem publicados.
Um irmão perdido.
Sério, a Elektra tem um irmão mais velho que nem ela conhecia.
O nome do cara é Orestes.
Orestes, filho bastardo do pai da Elektra - a mãe da Elektra era adepta do poliamor, o pai, não - manda matar a mãe da Elektra, enquanto grávida.
E essa é só a plotline do retcon ou de um episódio qualquer de Elektra del Bairro.
A história ainda é mais absurda, porque envolve os "Snakeroot", uma galera do mal do Tentáculo que precisa banhar uma espada em sangue inocente, e a Elektra cabe não deixar que a espada fique mágica enquanto ela se lembra, nas primeiras páginas de cada edição, de todas as violências que ela sofreu na infância.
Sério. Orestes.
Não dá pra defender o Demolidor de Armadura.
December 25, 2017
This shows what one great author can do to right the course of a sinking ship, as Warren Ellis picks up the shards of the themes Wright and "Smithee" were fumbling with and brings them together into a cohesive narrative within one 30 page conclusion with issue 343.
Worth a read twice, as Ellis' cap makes the rest of the issues make more sense thematically for having been there.
Worth a read twice, as Ellis' cap makes the rest of the issues make more sense thematically for having been there.
April 7, 2019
Art not really good, and stories not great either... not satisfying!
March 5, 2022
The 90s were a tough time for comics. Aside from Murdock faking his death and coming back as a con man - whut - this, like much of 90s pop culture, has some very weird ideas about homelessness.
March 25, 2025
OMG, this was awful. This was in the era when Matt Murdock faked his death and was running around in an armored costume and living as con man, Jack Battlin. The first arc by the colorist Gregory Wright was some weird thing with Daredevil in the sewers helping homeless people with some cannibals. It's beyond dumb. Then D.G. Chichester and Scott McDaniel do the Elektra: Root of Evil miniseries and whatever good ideas Chichester had in the past were clearly gone by this point. The story with the Snakeroot is pretty terrible. Then we return to the main Daredevil book with a story so bad the writer took his name off the book using the old pseudonym, Alan Smithee, that directors used to use in Hollywood when they were embarrassed about a movie they'd directed because of interference from the studio. I'd love to know who actually wrote it and how Marvel twisted it. This is an era of Daredevil you can safely ignore.
October 5, 2018
This wasn't too bad. I'm not a big Elektra fan but the mini-series was okay, but I was really disappointed that the final issue didn't have the Punisher issues it related to. Plus there were many misprints, from claiming one issue was 378 (an issue number that doesn't even exist), then the change in paper quality at one point, to the spine that was cut wrong! But I can't blame the writers for that! :D
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