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A review by james_desantis
Daredevil by Frank Miller Omnibus Companion by Frank Miller
3.0
This Omnibus is basically 3 stories put into one Omnibus.
So let's start with maybe the biggest one. Born again. This has gone down as one of the best Daredevil storylines of all time for a lot of people. And when I read it, least the first half, I actually agree it's great. To watch Matt's slow decent into madness after Kingpin finds out who he is. How he uses this information, and gaining it from one of Matt's old loved one, is perfect. And Matt actually becoming born again as a superhero. All of that was actually great, and I loved it. But then we get to the Nuke part. Nuke can be a great villain. Here though, as a dog for Kingpin, he feels lackluster. He just doesn't have the same interesting moments he does in some Captain America runs. I just didn't like how that storyline was handled much at all, since Matt had already overcome his sense of dread from being outed.
Then we have a love is war storyline. This one almost feels DREAM like, which has a unique feel to it. Saying that, it's not a very good unique feel. I was confused half the time, it's kind of a boring storyline as well with me. It has moments, towards the end especially, but this is easily the weakest part of the entire collection for me.
And for the final part we have Man Without Fear. And it's easily the best of the bunch. Matt's origin story is beautiful done, straight to the point. You get to cover when he becomes blind, loses his father, trains with his new mentor Stick, and learns to become a hero. The iconic black suit you see in season 1 of Daredevil takes from this storyline, and yes it looks that damn good. Daredevil uses fear to impose on his enemies, making sure they understand not to hurt the innocent. Between the badass fight scenes, the emotions of the characters, and the excellent art this is one classic superhero story you should not miss.
BUT saying that, this is a very flawed collection. Born again is uneven for me, Love is War is not very good, and then we get a awesome Man without fear. If I had to rate each it would be Born again at a 3, love is war a 2, and Man without fear a 4 or maybe even a five. So with that, I'ma go with a 3 out of 5, maybe even a 3.5 cause of how good Man without fear is, but it's not the strongest collection of stories since so uneven.
So let's start with maybe the biggest one. Born again. This has gone down as one of the best Daredevil storylines of all time for a lot of people. And when I read it, least the first half, I actually agree it's great. To watch Matt's slow decent into madness after Kingpin finds out who he is. How he uses this information, and gaining it from one of Matt's old loved one, is perfect. And Matt actually becoming born again as a superhero. All of that was actually great, and I loved it. But then we get to the Nuke part. Nuke can be a great villain. Here though, as a dog for Kingpin, he feels lackluster. He just doesn't have the same interesting moments he does in some Captain America runs. I just didn't like how that storyline was handled much at all, since Matt had already overcome his sense of dread from being outed.
Then we have a love is war storyline. This one almost feels DREAM like, which has a unique feel to it. Saying that, it's not a very good unique feel. I was confused half the time, it's kind of a boring storyline as well with me. It has moments, towards the end especially, but this is easily the weakest part of the entire collection for me.
And for the final part we have Man Without Fear. And it's easily the best of the bunch. Matt's origin story is beautiful done, straight to the point. You get to cover when he becomes blind, loses his father, trains with his new mentor Stick, and learns to become a hero. The iconic black suit you see in season 1 of Daredevil takes from this storyline, and yes it looks that damn good. Daredevil uses fear to impose on his enemies, making sure they understand not to hurt the innocent. Between the badass fight scenes, the emotions of the characters, and the excellent art this is one classic superhero story you should not miss.
BUT saying that, this is a very flawed collection. Born again is uneven for me, Love is War is not very good, and then we get a awesome Man without fear. If I had to rate each it would be Born again at a 3, love is war a 2, and Man without fear a 4 or maybe even a five. So with that, I'ma go with a 3 out of 5, maybe even a 3.5 cause of how good Man without fear is, but it's not the strongest collection of stories since so uneven.