Daredevil Legends: Born Again
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Daredevil Legends: Born Again
by Authors:
Frank Miller , David Mazzucchelli
Released: April, 1990
ISBN: 0871352974
Paperback
Sales Rank: 11,354
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Customer Review #1:
Millers Best
Ill start this review off by saying that I was a bit skeptical when I bought this recently. I was not a fan of Frank Millers latest, The Dark Knight Strikes again. But I decided to give him another shot. After all, he was the one who redefined the Dark Knight for a decade when The Dark Knight Returns came out.
This book focuses more on Matt Murdock than Daredevil. It begins with Karen Page, who is Murdocks secretary and now a junkie, revealing Matts secret life to Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime. Kingpin sets out to wreck Murdocks life. He destroys Murdocks apartment. He hires an assasin in a Daredevil costume to kill him. Then, he hires a deadly super soldier (like Captain America) to finish him off. Theres also an amazing battle between Murdock (not in his Daredevil costume) fighting Kingpin, which I felt was the climax of the story.
This was my first Daredevil book and certainly wont be my last. Miller was able to craft a story that works on many levels, with fantastic characterization.
David Mazzuchellis art is flawless, although I still believe he was at his best when he did Batman: Year One. The only problem with this book is that Christine Scheele and Richmond Lewis colors are at times too vibrant for such a dark tale.
No, this book didnt blow away the comic book world like The Dark Knight Returns did, because Batman is so much more popular, but I feel that this is truely Frank Millers best work.
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Customer Review #2:
A MILESTONE FOR MARVEL AND THE COMIC BOOK MEDIUM
Issues 227-233 of DAREDEVIL are a joyous example of the potential of the comic book medium. If the timing, marketing push and presentation were a little different, and, if Hornhead was a household name like The Caped Crusader, BORN AGAIN could have had the impact of the classic DARK KNIGHT RETURNS or the equally amazing BATMAN: YEAR ONE. Its that good. Miller is a storytelling genius. He respects the intelligence of the average comic reader and the rich tapestry that is the Marvel Universe yet, at the same time, a newcomer can pick up the storyline and be just as entertained. Never are the words "Captain America" or "Iron Man" or "Thor" mentioned. Either youll know who they are or youll have a sudden urge to find out. The story is fantastically hard-boiled with a street level New York feel and a wealth of great lines and scenarios. Who can forget.. "A man without hope is a Man Without Fear." "5B...5B....5B..." "It was a nice piece of work Kingpin...you shouldnt have signed it." Brilliant stuff. Stan Lee + Raymond Chandler=Framk Miller. Oh yeah, WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DAVID MAZZUCHELLI? He is, in my opinion, one of the industrys greats even though he hasnt done a large amount of work. WHERE HAS HE GONE? Imagine him applying his refreshingly realistic and influential style to, for example, Spider-Man or The Fantastic Four? Its just too bad hes faded away. With the kiddie-friendly, card-trading, heavy-merchandising, irrelevant-storyline, resurrection-happy, 6-books-for-each-character era of comics upon us, its good to be able to pick up well crafted, restrained, and fantastic piece of work like BORN AGAIN.
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Customer Review #3:
 Frank Millers coda to his run on Daredevil
A few years after his famous long run on DAREDEVIL, Miller returjned to the series and wrote a very interested "Twilight of the God" story arc that centers upon Daredevils sceret identity becoming revealed to his arch-nemesis, the Kingpin, after his ex-girlfriend Karen Page (who extends back to the first issue of the series), now a junkie, sells his identity to a criminal for drugs. The Kingpin learns the information and destroys Daredevils civilian life as wealthy attorney Matt Murdock, forcing Daredevil to see if he can start all over from the beginning.The artwork by David Mazzuchelli (who also did the even better BATMAN: YEAR ONE with Miller) is tremendous, and the story is engaging in part because Daredevils setback seems such a real one (for once) and also because the story allows itself to be engaged in the very vulnerable and likeable Karen Pages attempt to set things right. The story does suffer from Frank Millers great vices, his propensity for much too overbroad satirizations of politics and the media. The repetitive poking fun at patriotic jingoism by means of a new villain, Nuke, seems as shallow and two-dimensional as that which it seeks to attack, as does an overlong sequence attacking media sensationalism when Matts previous girlfriend Glory keeps taking pictures without stopping during a brutal murder. (Miller is a fine one to talk about the sensationalism of violence.) But its stilla superior graphic novel.
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