Daredevil Annual # 1 - Devil May Care
is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 12 / / 2007Plot Summary
Daredevil teams up with Black Tarantula to track down a murderer.
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Daredevil's having a tough week. A flu bug has rendered his radar power useless, a Yakuza gang is trying to reclaim their power in Hell's Kitchen, and there's a murder to be solved. Now, he has to deal with a visitor from his time in prison–Carlos LaMuerto, a.k.a. the Black Tarantula. Carlos has been released, and he's looking to Matt Murdock for some help in setting up a new life on the outside. Will Murdock and LaMuerto end up as allies, or foes? Will Black Tarantula really go straight, or will his inner demons lure him back to his crime-lord past?
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Reviewed by Mister Amazing on Nov. 4, 2007. Mister Amazing has written 5 reviews. His/her last review was for . 1 out of 1 users recommend his reviews. |
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I know Marvel often touts many of it's comics as a 'perfect jumping on point for new readers', but this one is really just that. Brubaker is, in my opinion, one of the greatest writers in the industry when it comes to making a story easy for a new reader to pick up on if they come in halfway. I have been a longtime Daredevil fan since my childhood, but recently gave up reading the stories because I did not like the way the writers worked the characters. Daredevil Annual #1 was good enough to make me go out and pick up the more recent daredevil comics, and they are now one of my top picks.
However, the best part of this comic is not the title character, but the supporting character Black Tarantula. His reinstatement into the Marvel U offers a good dynamic and a lot of potential for a solo series, which I hope Marvel decides to pursue.
Long story short, this is one of the best comics I've read all year.
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It brought me back to Daredevil.
Reviewed by Captainlunchbox on May 2, 2009. Captainlunchbox has written 1 review. His/her last review was for Devil May Care. |
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I'd like Brubaker's earlier work on Gotham Central well enough, but that combined with Michael Lark's art on a DD book? It didn't interest me. Lark's art style is very subdued almost to the point of being dull, which is why it works great with a detective story. And I like it in that context.
So that opinion aside, I picked this up out of curiousity, and because I didn't see Lark's name on the cover credits.
It starts out a bit slow, but I immediately liked the art. And heck I didn't care much for Fernandez's art before either, but he really impressed me here.
Great fight scenes and a grim noir perspective make this a pretty damn good DD story. And a great example of what an annual issue should consist of.
