Posted on: April 29th, 2009 Back Issue: Daredevil Guardian Devil Review
Once again I’m trying a new character that I’ve yet to really gotten to know. Daredevil was a character that always seemed to show up in crossovers and I’ve never taken a real interest in him before now. I’ve read Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Millar a while ago and remember it being something great, but haven’t really picked up anything of him since then, until now.
Daredevil: Guardian Devil is the first eight issues of volume two. It starts off with Daredevil reminiscing the loss of Karen Page, who lucky for me, I remember from Born Again. He goes to church to confess only to hear the racing heart beat of a young woman and a child. He rushes out of confession seeing the two being chased down by a car when he makes his move. He jumps on top of the car, throwing his fist through the driver side of the front windshield causing the pursuers to crash. The young woman and child are gone and Daredevil is left to explain himself to the cops.
Daredevil is disturbed by this event and goes to work. Here he’s talking with Foggy when he hears the heart beat of the two victims from earlier. Long and behold the two come right to his office in search for him. The young woman comes in with her baby telling Matt that she had a dream from angels that she had to give him the baby. Matt says he could take care of the people pursuing her, but she then says that the angels also told her that he was Daredevil. This surprises the hell out of Matt and before he knows it the young woman is gone.
Now Matt leaves the baby with the Black Widow to try to figure out what’s going on, only to find Karen Page knocking on his door. She bursts in crying and telling Matt that she has HIV. This again surprised Matt as his whole world is being turned upside down. He continues to work to find out where this baby came from and why there are people trying to kill it and as he comes closer to the answer he starts to lose his mind slowly.
The story through eight issues takes its twists and turns, main characters die, and a well known super villain makes himself know by the end. And it’s not Kingpin. The end leaves you feeling something, a little sad, maybe a little happy, but the point is it makes you feel. It made me feel, and to me that’s what makes a good book. This is a series that you find yourself so wrapped up in that you don’t want to put it down. The appearances by well know characters make this an action packed but very well told story.
Kevin Smith does a great job with this as the writer and surprisingly this is his first run as a comic book writer. Joe Quesada does a great job with the art, especially with the fight scenes. So as you can tell I really enjoyed this one. I just picked up all the comics from volume two so whenever I run into an event that deserves coverage like this first one, you can be sure to find another Back Issue review. Let me know what you guys think of this if you read it and leave any comments.
One Response to “Back Issue: Daredevil Guardian Devil Review”
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Jon Stephens Says:
April 30th, 2009 at 10:43 amI don’t doubt that Kevin Smith does a great job, the guy has always done great things with everything he touches. And Joe Quesada is one of my favorite comic artists. I really enjoyed this, and I am not exactly a fan of Daredevil. But everything was done so well, it transcended the characters and just became a really great read. Good call Brett and I’d recommend this to anyone!