2.5 stars.This felt like such a filler and is irrelevant to even the main story.Most of the stories focus on side characters like whatever is going on with Dakota and Foggy as they try to escape from hand and then Izo and elektra and what they find out, rehashing the events that happen in the main event book and then something with the fallout and how people are reacting to Matt's thing especially Detective Kurtz and Ben and its alright, them seeing the aftermath and maybe it was for the better

These are just tie-ins that aren't any worse or better than the main story.

First off I should point out that, like most crossover events, reading only the central mini-series is often not enough to fully enjoy said crossover event. From one chapter to the next, you might feel as if you've missed an important development in the story, one that's happened in a companion mini-series or tie-in. Such is the case with Shadowland, to which I basically gave the same review. Sure, the more tie-ins you read, the better, but the absolute minimum you should read along with this bo...

What...what was this book?It amazes me when I read bad Daredevil that so much good came after. It really is no wonder so many people have written off the character with this kind of garbage.This collection is mostly the spotting of the larger event, making little sense and loosely strung together. Imagine yourself at summer camp with your new best friend. You decide that the best way to immortalize your brotherly union is through the making of friendship bracelets, which you plan to wear all of

It sorta felt like a Batman comic with the gritty vibes and diverse perspectives and city chaos gone amuck...but so much of it felt messy and confusing. I legitimately thought the book I had was missing pages...then I read these reviews and realize...this is literally it? Okay...weird.

Daredevil becoming a villain with a lot of gratuity violence and non sense. A waste of time

This arc is soooo out of character. None of the things happening in the book seem connected and they happen without explanations. They better explain it in the next few issues…

Shadowland: Daredevil! Now with 80% less Daredevil.So...Matt has been possessed (or something) and is hanging out with The Hand in a ludicrous, Sengoku-era Japanese castle in Hell's Kitchen, and his friends (Foggy, Dakota, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, etc.) want to stage some kind of intervention to get him to snap out of it and quit hanging out with nutjobs like White Tiger and Typhoid Mary.Meanwhile, there's a very street-level "last good cop in the kitchen" story line, and the trials and tribulation...

I am a casual comics reader these days. A while back I picked up a copy of The Devil's Hand, a compilation of comics covering Daredevil's ascension (descension?) to the role of leader of the shadowy organization known as The Hand. I loved it and waited patiently for the conclusion of the story, Shadowland. Man, was I disappointed.The art is good. The writing is competent. Here's the thing, though: this "book" is missing its climax. And I don't mean that the ending is anticlimactic; I mean that t...

It's a shame to see Daredevil fall so far. I'm not talking about the plot, in which Daredevil succumbs to the Hand's evil (sort of?). I'm talking about Diggle's writing. There is almost nothing redemptive in this. The story jumps from seemingly random event to random event. Daredevil's good, then he's evil. No explanation given. Characters show up out of absolutely nowhere and end up not mattering in the slightest. There's an extended period where Moon Knight keeps being set up to be a key playe...

[Note: This review is identical to my review of Shadowland , as the two are intertwined through a cross-over event.]To be fair, I was warned. The truly wonderful Volume 2 of Daredevil, spanning from Issue #1 to Issue #512 (which is 132), began in 1998 with a reboot. It lasted for 12 years, and in the majority of those years the story of Matt Murdock was fantastic. Sure, Murdock had a downer life, constantly assaulted and beaten. It was horrible. Tough. But still Matt Murdock pressed on.When

There are many things to like here, which makes the one glaring error even more disappointing. There’s no need to avoid spoilers here, as by now everyone who follows this character knows that the “bad, tyrannical” Daredevil has a defining moment and becomes the “good, humanitarian” Daredevil again. The Shadowland saga expanded across several Marvel titles, and it would require an omnibus to collect them all. (Of course, that happened later). However, to leave out that one key issue or issues whe...

From where I'm slumped, the Shadowland story never quite seemed to grab the imagination the way other story arcs did in the Marvel universe. Which is a shame, because it's fantastic.Maybe part of the problem was centring it in a small part of New York rather than the whole world, or maybe making Daredevil the main guy wasn't a big enough draw.Who knows, but if you've missed this you've missed out. And it all comes down to this. The big denouement. The Final reckoning. And it's dark. And gritty.

I hadn't heard very good things about this, but I feel like waiting a year after finishing Brubaker's run helped me appreciate it more. Bendis and Brubaker combined to make Daredevil the best he's ever been - even moreso than Frank Miller. Andy Diggle had really big boots to fill and while he doesn't fit them perfectly he did his best and I'd honestly say this was still a fun ride and an interesting way to end the very difficult place Brubaker had left the character at the end of his run.I also

Maybe it will make more sense after reading the other shadowland books? Many plot threads left open and many questions left unaddressed. Somebody tell me how we can end one issue with daredevil strangling his best friend foggy and then start the next issue with foggy standing in a different setting perfectly healthy. Did we go back in time? See, I don't know because this story jumps around at will and is completely disjointed. Also, when a superhero who does not kill finally decides to kill it s...

Update:(Finally read both this and Shadowland together, so updating this entry)It was a very poor decision to have the Shadowland event miniseries and the DD series so tightly intertwined, without making them properly sequential. You'd literally have to read a few pages of this, hop over to read some pages of that, and skip back to this, in order for stuff to make chronological sense. (And don't even get me started on the other tie-ins)That being said, reading both simultaneously was... weird. I...

Pure ancillary tie-in material. Doesn't add much to the main Shadowland story, intersects with it ever so often, and focuses almost exclusively on non-super characters who don't play a big role in the main story. For completists only.

There is potential for a good story here, but this book is a mess. I have no idea how things went this wrong, but the storytelling is simply, all over the place. (view spoiler)[ The book starts out with a recap of the previous volume, mentioning the part where Daredevil snapped and killed Bullseye - - WAITAMINUTE!!!!! That didn't happen! Did they just end the last volume planning to begin this one with that event, only to forget they didn't portray it at the end of The Devils' Hand? This kind of...

This collection of Daredevil comics avoids the disappointment of the Shadowland event proper by maintaining most of its focus on Daredevil's supporting cast. In fact, issues 511 and 512 sandwich and thus avoid the climax of Shadowland, with 512 picking up immediately afterwards. Watching characters react to Matt Murdock's descent into hell was compelling, and the art was consistently good throughout (I enjoyed Marco Checchetto's work in particular). This collection includes the one-shot Shadowla...

The short version is the Daredevil has gone rogue. He's built a Japanese temple in the heart of Manhattan and has surrounded himself with ninjas. As the new leader of The Hand, he intends to use the silent assassins to keep peace. Instead, he descends into darkness and his corruption leaches out to the city around him.Heroes like Spider-man, Moon Knight, Luke Cage and Iron Fist try to reason with Daredevil, but after he goes too far it seems like killing him is the only solution. Enter Ghost Rid...