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3.0
I'm giving this a three but it's not the kind of three I want cluttering up my shelves.
So this collects Daredevil #301-311, Annual #8, three issues of Nomad, three issues of Punisher War Journal, and some material from a holiday special.
The last Daredevil I read prior to Kevin Smith's run was #300 so most of this was new material. DG Chichester and Lee Weeks did the arc prior to this book and it was fantastic. This book was not fantastic.
The three parter featuring the Owl to open the book was fine. I'd never heard of MC Wyman and wished Lee Weeks was still on the book. The crossover between Daredevil, Punisher, and Nomad was good in theory with criminals meeting in Vegas to carve up the Kingpin's empire but ran for too long. Dead Man's Hand lasted for three months in each title. It was fun and the heroes felt fairly natural in the same story, although a gun toting hero like Nomad not wanting to kill anyone doesn't make all that much sense to me. Once Dead Man's Hand wrapped, another writer took over and I quickly lost interest.
There's nothing exactly wrong with this Epic Collection except that it's very much of it's time, the early 1990s, and overstays its welcome a bit. I'm glad I read it but I won't shed a tear when I trade it in for something else.
So this collects Daredevil #301-311, Annual #8, three issues of Nomad, three issues of Punisher War Journal, and some material from a holiday special.
The last Daredevil I read prior to Kevin Smith's run was #300 so most of this was new material. DG Chichester and Lee Weeks did the arc prior to this book and it was fantastic. This book was not fantastic.
The three parter featuring the Owl to open the book was fine. I'd never heard of MC Wyman and wished Lee Weeks was still on the book. The crossover between Daredevil, Punisher, and Nomad was good in theory with criminals meeting in Vegas to carve up the Kingpin's empire but ran for too long. Dead Man's Hand lasted for three months in each title. It was fun and the heroes felt fairly natural in the same story, although a gun toting hero like Nomad not wanting to kill anyone doesn't make all that much sense to me. Once Dead Man's Hand wrapped, another writer took over and I quickly lost interest.
There's nothing exactly wrong with this Epic Collection except that it's very much of it's time, the early 1990s, and overstays its welcome a bit. I'm glad I read it but I won't shed a tear when I trade it in for something else.
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