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    inferiorego's Shadowland #5 - Chapter 5 review

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    Review: Shadowland #5

    The end is here! Shadowland is over! Who survives? Who bites the bucket? The book started off with Daredevil seemingly in the grip of evil while New York City's heroes try to release him.
     

    The Good

    Above all else, the pencils of Billy Tan, inks of Victor Olazaba, and the colors of "Guru eFx" is what makes this issue pop. No offense to the writing of Andy Diggle, which I enjoyed in this issue, but the art spoke for itself here. You don't even need the word balloons for the first half of the issue. That's how clear and precise the art is. The fight scenes, in this issue, are super-awesome, especially Daredevil versus Ghost Rider, even though it's a bit shorter than expected. And the final battle is something you'll really love, even though I don't want to say who is fighting in the scene.
     

    The Bad

    Here's the kicker, I'm not happy with how everything turned out at the end of this issue. We're back to same-old same-old. Essentially, everything has gone back to the way it was, more or less, before Shadowland or at least it will revert to that probably within the next year. For a storyline with such an amazing premise, the end result was a huge let down.
     

    The Verdict 3/5 - Borrow

    If you like cool fight scenes, great writing, and amazing art, but don't really care what actually happens in the story, you'll love this book. However, Shadowland is more of the same from Marvel: Great set-up, good execution, but everything reverts to normalcy at the end of the story. Sure, a few minor things are different here and there, but within a year or so, everything will most likely revert to the way it was.
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      Daredevil's Nonevent Comes to an End 0

      Shadowland #5 - Chapter 5 by blurred_view on December 02, 2010

      Shadowland doesn't end with either a bang or a whimper. It kind of just decides it has gone on long enough and stops, releasing all the characters involved to go on to whatever is in store for them next and not really resolving anything. However, that isn't to say there was ever much about Shadowland to resolve. What was solicited to us as a story of Daredevil becoming corrupted by the Hand with his allies and enemies being divided on which side of his questionable actions they fall on became no...

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      A Bang that ends in a fizzle 0

      Shadowland #5 - Chapter 5 by the_angry_comic_book_critic on December 03, 2010

      By The Angry Comic Book Critic     Shadowland was a bang that ended in a fizzle The 1st issue was great You had DD in Black doing what he should have done years putting Bullseye in the ground after a royal ass kicking but as it progress I just stopped caring it just became a boring arc outside of the Daredevil tie-in's. The story wasn't god awful or anything but it was mediocre compared to what we where promised which was the birth of Marvels greatest Villain and this was no where near clo...

      3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
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