-Ghost Rider helps Foggy Nelson climb to the top of Shadowland Fortress, because besides being the Spirit of Vengeance, he's also an all-around nice guy.
-Ghost Rider attacks the Beast-possessed Daredevil and is defeated when DD sucks the flame off of GR's face... OOOOOkay then.
-DD discovers Foggy sneaking around the Fortress and goes to kill him, but is attacked by the DEADLY POWERS of Iron Fist.
-Elektra then enters the weakened DD's mind(wha-huh?!)and convinces him to impale himself with Elektra's sword(still in DD's mind), thus breaking the Beast's hold on him and killing DD...
-Or does it?!?
-With the Beast gone, the rioting New Yorkers halt their rampage, and the police bring order back to the streets.
-The heroes mill about Shadowland Fortress, but manage to lose sight of DD's body, which has disappeared.
-Kingpin arrives at the Fortress and takes control of the remaining Hand ninjas.
-Matt Murdock, wearing a hoody, which is this generations over-sized trenchcoat, goes to church to repent his sins.
Blah. This mini-series started out with SUCH potential. I mean in the first issue, DD killed Bullseye with a sai, in an awesome display of poetic justice. Unfortunately, things have been slowly going downhill from there. Basically, all this mini accomplished was Bullseye's death, and then a whole lot of nothing. Matt isn't DD anymore, but that can be easily fixed, Black Panther, who had NOTHING to do with the Shadowland storyline will be taking over the DD comic, and the Kingpin will be leading the Hand. Whoop-dee-do! Big deal. I was expecting some MAJOR fireworks to close this series out, and instead I got DD literally sucking Ghost Rider's face, and Matt Murdock going to church...
Score: 4 out of 10.
That gives a whole new definition to the term, "sucking face"...
Haha, Daredevil looks like the freakin' Tick in that first panel! And this whole scene just makes me think of that demon in Evil Dead II -- "I'll swallow your soul, I'll swallow your soul!" Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteSucking Face, haha. Well played reference X. As for Shadowland, yeah, I at least expected Black Panther to show up, but the fact he didn't makes him taking over seem even MORE stupid.
ReplyDeleteJT, I am SO puzzled by the whole Black Panther thing... Considering he didn't show up in Shadowland AT ALL, I just don't understand how he's going to suddenly become the lead character in DD... I mean, there were plenty of heroes who showed up in Shadowland who don't currently have a series, why not give them the DD slot?
ReplyDeleteYou'd think... if ANYONE took over, it'd be Iron Fist, only because he's filled in for DD before, and he gave him the crushing blow. So... where the hell does BP even come INTO this?!
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY!!!!! Iron Fist would have made the most sense! Black Panther? Not so much. Hell, Elektra, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, even that new Power Man kid make more sense than Black Panther. If nothing else, I'll be intrigued to see just how Marvel fits BP into the DD book.
ReplyDeleteKnowing Marvel it'll be cancelled by April anyway right? So who cares... just bring back Matt since he's not even dead.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a new series I'd completely agree with you. Since it's one of their long time titles though, I doubt they'll pull the plug. If sales dip, then they can just bring Matt back, since like you said, he's not even dead!
ReplyDeleteNah, they'll cancel it, just like they did with Incredible Hercules when sales got too low. The fact that Herc carried over its numbering from Incredible Hulk didn't stop Marvel for a second. Cancel-happy jerks...
ReplyDeleteThat's a real weird one... Especially considering there are like 73 different Hulk books on the market today. I'm not very up on my Hulk numbering, so I figure I'd ask, did they return whatever the main Hulk book is back to its original numbering, or is it still in like the teens?
ReplyDeleteThey did return Hulk to his original numbering...well, sort of. They ignored the Hercules issues, which is understandable since, after all, they didn't have Hulk. But they miscounted the number of issues Hulk HAD been in with his own series, and gave him a #600 about three months before he should have gotten one! As if the Hulk franchise wasn't a big enough joke already, right?
ReplyDeleteThat makes reason #429 why I'm not interested in reading any Hulk books! :P
ReplyDeleteAnd by that you mean reason #500, right? (Why not round up? Marvel sure did!)
ReplyDelete"And by that you mean reason #500, right? (Why not round up? Marvel sure did!)" HA!!! THAT was hilarious! VERY nicely done, Marc! :D
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