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A review by booksnarks
Daredevil: Guardian Devil by Kevin Smith
5.0
“The conclusion I’ve come to after years spent doing this is that there are no innocents. Everyone’s guilty. Even us. Especially us… no Peter — there are no innocents. Even in the strictest of definitions, people like the loved one you mentioned and Karen are still guilty. They are guilty of dying and leaving us alone in this mire of solitude and misery.”
Excuse me while I get a hold of my emotions.
Regardless of whether or not you are a Daredevil fan, regardless of whether you hate the “Women in Refrigerators” trope, this is just a really good story. And really, what makes it great is not the plot itself, which can be generic at times, but the writing, and the way the story is handled. It’s not just that things happen in this story, but those things are followed through in the plot and you get the closure you need.
It’s not a spoiler to say that this is the infamous story in which Karen Page, arguably Daredevil’s greatest love interest is killed by Bullseye with Daredevil’s own billy club. I mean, that right there is just brutal. What makes it more brutal is that Karen didn’t have the greatest life either — an ex drug addict who was tricked by Mysterio into thinking she was dying of AIDS, and believed that Matt no longer loved her, only to sacrifice what she thought remained of her life in order to save Matt.
Yes, brutal treatment of Karen; she really didn’t deserve it. However, if we were bound to get this story, I’m really glad that it was one that was so well written. I keep saying this, but really, I enjoyed the way it was written. Karen’t death was heartbreaking and different kinds of horrible with terrible repercussions on Matt, but ultimately, on an emotional level, I got the closure and justice I wanted from it.
It also helped that it was tied with the overall story arc of the “demon baby” because in the end that just helped bring the story together in the closing pages. But, really this story was all about Karen. My favourite scene has to be when, after her funeral, Peter (Parker) asks to meet Matt and it turns out they go to the Brooklyn Bridge where Peter basically tells Matt “look, I know what you are going through, I lost someone I greatly loved right here on this spot,” and then we get a sort of mirage image of the night Gwen Stacy died. I mean, just… look…
As if I wasn’t already teary eyed by this point in the story! GWEN!!! (I will always weep for Gwen whenever her death is mentioned). I mean, this! This right here is one of the things that made this story so good. And there are other little instances like this scene where the emotions, and the dialogue and the paneling are just perfect.
I really enjoyed this, and I would recommended it to general comic book fans. I will now go and cry for Karen Page.
Excuse me while I get a hold of my emotions.
Regardless of whether or not you are a Daredevil fan, regardless of whether you hate the “Women in Refrigerators” trope, this is just a really good story. And really, what makes it great is not the plot itself, which can be generic at times, but the writing, and the way the story is handled. It’s not just that things happen in this story, but those things are followed through in the plot and you get the closure you need.
It’s not a spoiler to say that this is the infamous story in which Karen Page, arguably Daredevil’s greatest love interest is killed by Bullseye with Daredevil’s own billy club. I mean, that right there is just brutal. What makes it more brutal is that Karen didn’t have the greatest life either — an ex drug addict who was tricked by Mysterio into thinking she was dying of AIDS, and believed that Matt no longer loved her, only to sacrifice what she thought remained of her life in order to save Matt.
Yes, brutal treatment of Karen; she really didn’t deserve it. However, if we were bound to get this story, I’m really glad that it was one that was so well written. I keep saying this, but really, I enjoyed the way it was written. Karen’t death was heartbreaking and different kinds of horrible with terrible repercussions on Matt, but ultimately, on an emotional level, I got the closure and justice I wanted from it.
It also helped that it was tied with the overall story arc of the “demon baby” because in the end that just helped bring the story together in the closing pages. But, really this story was all about Karen. My favourite scene has to be when, after her funeral, Peter (Parker) asks to meet Matt and it turns out they go to the Brooklyn Bridge where Peter basically tells Matt “look, I know what you are going through, I lost someone I greatly loved right here on this spot,” and then we get a sort of mirage image of the night Gwen Stacy died. I mean, just… look…
As if I wasn’t already teary eyed by this point in the story! GWEN!!! (I will always weep for Gwen whenever her death is mentioned). I mean, this! This right here is one of the things that made this story so good. And there are other little instances like this scene where the emotions, and the dialogue and the paneling are just perfect.
I really enjoyed this, and I would recommended it to general comic book fans. I will now go and cry for Karen Page.