| Daredevil #76 |
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Story: The Murdock Papers - Part 1 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Alex Maleev Publisher: Marvel Knights Price: $2.99 |
This is the first part of the final Story for this creative team on Daredevil. The team of Bendis and Maleev has been here for the last 3 or 4 years, since issue 26. Which means they have written about 2/3 of the entire series so far, now thats impressive. Not only that they've told some of the best Daredevil stories ever written, if not some the the most unique comics Marvel has ever put out. But as good as they have been, all good things must end, but at least it looks like their goin out with a bang.
Quick recap here, Daredevil has been outed as Daredevil by the Press as Matt Murdock. He filed a lawsuit saying its not true. After losing his seat of power the Kingpin tried desprately to ged rid of DD as a symbol of his rise back to power, threw every ace in the whole, Typhoid Mary, Bullseye, all fell short. Till the big showdown with the Kingpin himself. DD beat him and in a fit of rage declaired himself the new Kingpin, and sent word to the people off Hell's Kitchen to clean up or get out.
A year has gone by, things have gotten better and have started to look good for Matt, buisness is good, people seem to like DD again, and people have stopped attacking Matt Murdock, so of course the shit has to hit the fan. Kingpin has made a deal with the feds to give up information, and has requested DDs reporter friend Ben Urich to write the story. What they don't know is that he's not giving up information of his criminal dealings, he's giving information about Daredevil.
The story being set up is great, it really feels like an epic story. As always Maleev's moody, shadowy, and distictly noir style is showing us how good he is after 3 years or so of being with this character. And Bendis always looks at things from a slightly different perspective, we know Kingpin is a huge guy and is dangerous, but he is also very intelligent. You just know he's gonna turn his seemingly defeat, from where he is in prison, to having himself back at the top of the food chain. While I do think there's the feel of putting everything back in its place to get ready for the next creative team. At least Bendis is giving us logical and compelling reasons for doing it. I mean as if anyone thought Kingpin wasn't going to be the Kingpin for very long.
Needless to say I excited about this story and what means for DD, Kingpin, and the status quo of this book. Another great issue in the bag, for this team. It featured the classic Bendis story decompression, but I'm definetly used to it by now, and of course another Bendis talent....boy can he write great Cliffhangers, despite the fact its not the promise of a fight, a death, or a new character. The art really gets you involved because its just very down to earth, plus after all the good thats finally happening, you genuinely hate to see how this is probably gonna get. You think he deserves a break, but then again as nice as that would be, it wouldn't be as interesting.
9/10 Great set-up to whats hopefully a great story
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