The best kind of superhero stories are the ones that push our favorite heroes to the absolute limit--testing their resolve, determination, resilience, and willpower. Over the last few years there has been no hero put through the ringer quite like Matt Murdock. He’s seen his second true love, Karen Page, die in his arms, he’s been outed as Daredevil to the press, thrown in jail alongside Kingpin, divorced his wife, Milla, and finally, become leader of an evil ninja cult The Hand. Murdock’s experienced more drama in the last few years than most people go through over multiple lifetimes.

I have to agree w/ you. It would be interesting if they actually had a series where Daredevil tried to get redemption where runs from the cops, other superheroes while trying to do good. It would be interesting to see which superhero actually trusts him. 
 
Shame on Marvel for this.

I think Marvel should have shown DD break a little bit and do as @Catastrophic said and have him on the run trying to gain redemption. I think the possession was a cop-out.

I was disappointed with the story arc when it was revealed he was possessed.

The possession angle, to me, is along the lines of "he woke up and it was all a dream"--it's cheap storytelling. If there's nothing actually at stake, then what's the point. Sure he did some bad things, but once everyone knows it's wasn't him, he's instantly forgiven, so there's no tension or consequences.

Shadowland was good pitch with awful ideas, When I first saw the solicit like everyone I assumed DD finally reached his breaking point and decided to take the law into his own hands. The first issue of Shadowland was incredible has Matt soundly defeated his longtime enemy and did what needed to be done by killing him. This book was a victim of simply too many unnecessary tie-ins which brought about Heroes For Hire. If anything the only books that should have involved Shadowland at all were Shadowland,DD, & Blood on the Streets; Everything else was entirely unnecessary and not needed  Diggle should have stuck with what made his DD run great rather than packing it fool of supernatural elements. You can throw this mess right up there with Siege as the worst event ever. Thank god for the Thanos Imperative

This actually reminds me of another superhero who wound up "possessed":

I have already stated my opinion of the Shadowland ending in a thread that was locked for being a dupe.
 
For those that missed. I shall re-iterate...
 

As someone that has collected DD since frank Miller's original run, I can say my interest in the character and the series is as low as it has ever been. I know it is sacrilege, but I never care much for Bendis' run on the book. It was a one-note homage to Miller's run. 
 
This may sound strange, but I pine for the days of Ann Nocenti's run on the book. She did an amazing job of balancing the law aspects of Matt Murdock with the costume exploits of DD. She would weave these two worlds together in great arcs. The tone was  a little lighter. DD is never going to be a happy character and the tone, should never be that  of Spiderman or FF, but the "lets see how badly we can emotionally torture Matt Murdock" has gone on too long. This was the problem with the Bendis run. It was so singular in its misery. Putting a character through tragedy only works if it is balanced with some joy or normalcy. 
 
Maybe they should cancel the title for a year or two (I already know this is not happening) and let a fresh writer come on and reviltialize the character. Hopefully someone with their own vision that is not so in love with the Miller years. Don't get me wrong, those comics are some of my all time favorites; but it has already been done and repeated several times. 

I would have prefered no possession and him falling into the world of becoming a super villain. that being in charge would have brought about an ego which never would have come from Matt before. possession is just a quick way to speed up the story when the series itself should have played like a soap opera.

IT WAS PARALLAX!!!!!!111!!!!
 
srsly tho. that is sooooo lame.

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This actually reminds me of another superhero who wound up "possessed":

 

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I agree 100%, the story had such potential... IMO the demon being able to take down Ghost Rider was total PIS. And then Iron Fist takes him out with his chi, I mean really?!

I was bummed as well. At least Bullseye stayed dead (for now).

Well, this was Spider-man's equivalent to The Other+Civil War+Back In Black+One More Day, but JMS didn't need a Spider-man possesed to do what he did in Back in Black, but at the end they used another bad excuse, Maphisto used "Magic, I don't have to explained", we can say that the same thing happened to Daredevil,  “Oh, but it wasn’t really him”,  that was a little mediocre...
I don't like it that saga that much, but oh well, I liked the rest... 

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" @Midnight Monk said:

" Shadowland was good pitch with awful ideas, When I first saw the solicit like everyone I assumed DD finally reached his breaking point and decided to take the law into his own hands. The first issue of Shadowland was incredible has Matt soundly defeated his longtime enemy and did what needed to be done by killing him. This book was a victim of simply too many unnecessary tie-ins which brought about Heroes For Hire. If anything the only books that should have involved Shadowland at all were Shadowland,DD, & Blood on the Streets; Everything else was entirely unnecessary and not needed  Diggle should have stuck with what made his DD run great rather than packing it fool of supernatural elements. You can throw this mess right up there with Siege as the worst event ever. Thank god for the Thanos Imperative "

Agreed. "

You can throw this mess right up there with Siege as the worst event ever.

"think about it this way...would Daredevil have been any kind of problem if he wasn't possessed?  think about it...Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Spider-man, Punisher, and others went in there and got their collective a$$es kicked...if he wasn't possessed then they would have gone in stopped and arrested him with almost 0 problems..then the story would have been over "

Really? Possession? I'ved been missing Shadowland and have been meaning to catch up on the back issues but after hearing this I don't know if I could. Marvel and their cop outs.