the_mighty_monarch's Daredevil #14 - Megacrime and Punishment review

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    Assassin's Creed: Fearless

    This is one of the few Daredevil covers that isn't doing anything for me. It doesn't have any of the incredible touches most usually have, and even without them it's fairly standard.

    This issue is brilliantly laid out. The beginning, where Daredevil uses all his enhanced senses to work out where he is, not only demonstrates his abilities very well, it's a cruel mirror to the finale of the issue.

    There's not a whole lot to this story, Daredevil is a prisoner Latveria because he stole the Omega Drive, it's interesting that Dr. Doom DOESN'T show up, though odd since he's on the cover. Maybe if he was more of a shadow in the background... like, that he IS Latveria... I don't know.

    Anyways, SOMETHING happens, I won't say what, and Daredevil is slowly driven to a greater and greater disadvantage as he runs through the peasant Latverian towns moving like something out of Assassin's Creed. I actually had a lot of fun noticing everything that reminded me of AC.

    And then the end, when everything hits him in full; we get to see such a powerful definitive Daredevil. 'The Man Without Fear,' is what he's called, and he demonstrates this fearlessness in a far more emotionally effective way in this issue, without drawing a contrived amount of attention to it. But it's a sickening somber aftertaste when we see Daredevil captured again, smiling like a child because he's convinced he's free because he can't feel a single thing.

    There's also a fairly nice scene back at home with Foggy, and it says a lot about his character; but the scene also all but tells us what's in that drawer that caused Foggy to recoil, yet haven't had a big 'reveal' for it yet. I didn't want to know yet, or I at least didn't want to know before I'm shown. Granted, we don't KNOW yet, so I could be wrong, but it seems extremely obvious given the scene in this issue.

    In Conclusion: 4.5/5

    Another amazing issue weighed down by the possible poor handling of the mystery of drawer that made Foggy shit his own. Drawers. Ha. Wordplay. What was I saying? Oh yes, Daredevil is defined in this issue as strongly as Batman in his latest few issues. Chris Samnee's art is fine, but I MUCH prefer Paolo Rivera.

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