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I liked this a lot -- Miller has just the right sense of the characters (although Karen Page's plot is gross), and Mazzuchelli is perfect for this, maybe even better Han the work he did with Miller on Batman: Year One. Worth seeking out. ( )

When there is a well-plotted plan to destroy your reputation, career, home, loved ones... and then your life... when do get desperate, and when do you go mad? Matt Murdoch becomes 'a man without hope'... and a man without hope,'is a man without fear.'

Beautiful work, still some of the best writing and art in the history of comics.

The one criticism, is the Nuke character, which is not far removed the Rambo concept. Not necessarily a bad idea, just a stretch in plot, in order to include Captain America. ( )

Borrowed it from the public library.

See my short note on it:
[http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2006/08/short-booknotes-on-graphic-novels-6.html] ( )

This collection of comics opens with Karen Page selling Matt Murdoch's name as Daredevil for a fix to some bad guys in Mexico. It goes up the chain of command until it reaches Mr. Fisk, or Kingpin as he is widely known. Fisk decides to go after Matt and destroy his life. He makes it so that he is two months late on his mortgage and the IRS is doing an audit on him and had frozen his accounts.

Fisk gets charges brought up against Matt by an honest cop that he got witnesses to purgery themselves on the stand. Foggy argues his case and keeps him out of jail but he loses his law license. That's not all he's losing. He's beginning to lose his mind. He lost his girlfriend Glori who is now working at the Buggle taking pictures.

Reporter Ben Ulrich suspects that something is going on and begins to investigate but even he gets scared off of the story. And Karen has people trying to kill her and she knows the only person who can save her is Matt and he's in New York and he's also the person she betrayed. But she has to get there for him. As Daredevil, Matt has gone rogue and is beating people up badly whether they deserve it or not.

Then he goes after Fisk and Fisk beats him up badly and sets him up in a car to die but he escapes and goes to the Church where Maggie works. Maggie who had helped him when he first found out he was blind. Maggie nurses him back to health and he meets with Karen and deals with his feelings for her. Also, Nuke the experimental super-soldier who was a bit of a mistake that the government uses on projects outside of the country has been tasked with getting Daredevil and destroying him.

These are amazing comics and Frank Miller and company are the best at what they do. This is truly one of the best Daredevil stories ever written. He is brought so low to a point that would break a normal man, but Daredevil, Matt, becomes a man without hope, who is a man without fear and can take on anything. Even when his friends seem to desert him he can still stand tall and not let Fisk win. There's also included a comic called Warrior about an old acquaintance of Matt and Foggy's who has gotten himself into trouble that Daredevil must get him out of. I give this book five out of five stars. ( )