Daredevil: The Man Without Fear! (Daredevil, 2)

I agree that the price is a bit steep for this book. Even when purchased at the amazon price of about $50, it is no bargain. Luckily, the contents are well worth it.This is without a doubt superhero comics at their apex. Other reviewers have summarized the plot, so I'll just point out that my favorite aspect of this book is the way the art fits the writing. Lark's restrained and noir-inspired work is a welcome change from the overblown muscle-shows that dominate this genre. This stuff feels REAL. Even when Lark is depicting ninjas and the like, there is physics and weight to the action.Daredevil has always been a comic book drenched in emotions, and Lark's pencils succeed at giving those emotions their depressing due, while also managing to be understated so that the emotions feel real and not over-dramatized.Another point of note is the gorgeous color work. It takes a bold vision to make a comic book so distinctly dark and moody. The moments of color that do come through are rich and beautiful, with deep reds, blues, and greens that glow from the page.I think that's why I do say this book is worth paying for-- the artwork sets it apart as something truly special that you will want to return to over and over, a real collector's item.

Don't get me wrong the stories found in this book are simply fantastic and Michaels Lark's art looks amazing especially with this larger format. Yet for the amount of issues and the size of this book the price seems unmerited. If you are like me though then you can not wait to read these stories and you can take comfort that the production value is omnibus standard and the stories are Brubaker standard. Great and great.

This is a tiny omnibus like 400 page or something like that, should have been combined with the first omnibus. Anyways this has more to do with ninjas which is awesome and Black Tarantula which is surprising awesome as well. It introduces us to Lady Bullseye, she's interesting and cool.I really enjoyed the this omnibus and all of Brubakers run a lot. The binding of this omnibus is good not really an eye since it's such a small omnibus. Highly recommend getting Brubakers run.

This is the smallest "omnibus" book I've ever bought. I breezed through it very, very quickly. While the stories are great, and at times the art is quite good...come ON! Too short. Anyone who paid full retail for this got completely worked.

great finishing of the brubaker run on dd. great art, great story and a lot of extras in this edition. if you have the previous books by bendis & maleev and the first brubaker dd omnibus than you probably need no recommendation. if not - buy this book, its the best superhero comics there is.

Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's run on "Daredevil" (ah, how unusual it has become to speak of a run by both a writer and an artist) concludes with this second Omnibus volume, collecting issues 105 to 119 and 500 (thanks to renumbering) of the ongoing series, as well as a one-shot comic spotlighting supporting character Black Tarantula. It is rather slimmer than the first volume, but then, Brubaker's run ended, so there isn't anything to be done about that, and the writing and art remain at the same level of quality as in the first volume, though they venture into some markedly different aspects of the Daredevil mythos. The contents of this omnibus were previously collected into the trades "Cruel and Unusual", "Lady Bullseye", and "The Return of the King". Some spoilers follow.The collection begins, fittingly enough, with an issue bringing the reader up to date on Matt Murdock's recent emotional state, which could be succinctly described as terrible. More elaborately, in the events of the preceding volume he spent time in prison, attempted to get his life back, and in the end a supervillain drove his wife Milla irretrievably insane and avoided any real punishment for his crimes. The series then begins an arc with Brubaker's old "Gotham Central" partner on hand to co-write once again, which gives Matt something of a normal case for the first time in a while, and lays the groundwork for some major developments in Matt's life with the private investigator Dakota North (Greg Rucka's involvement no doubt helped with this; he loves him some tough chicks).With that done and Rucka departed, Brubaker continues on into the final year-long story arc of his run on the series, the arcs "Lady Bullseye" and "The Return of the King", which are essentially one story in two parts. Having used a number of street-level villains in the past, Brubaker now turns to the Hand, the deadly ninja cult first introduced in Frank Miller's iconic run. And he introduces the titular Lady Bullseye, a legacy villain (drafted, in part one imagines, because of how frequently Bullseye himself has been unavailable to the writers of the title), and, for my money, a very interesting one. You might be tempted to groan at the concept, but Brubaker does some very interesting things with her. And all this leads into the return to the stage of the Kingpin, Daredevil's archnemesis, and largely absent from Brubaker's run after the first arc. Brubaker brings Fisk's latest journey to a powerful, tragic conclusion, and while doing so sets up Daredevil on a really different path from anything done by previous writers. And he creates Master Izo, a delightful addition to the mythos. I'll say no more, but that it is very good stuff indeed.Overall, I've tended to regard Brubaker's run as something of a treatise on why Matt Murdock's life is impossible when people know that he is indeed Daredevil. Unlike the billionaire heroes like Tony Stark who live in the clouds and have security, Murdock is on the streets, and exposed to ruthless enemies. Gradually, over the course of Brubaker's run, we see all of this stripped away from him, and #500 ends with him perhaps poised to abandon civilian life altogether. This is more of Brubaker's customary terrific work. He's aided by Lark, who brings his usual quality art to most of the issues collected here (with occasional contributions by other artists who largely mimic Lark's style).Highly recommended.

Daredevil’s second series is one of my all time favorites and I could not have asked for a better ending P.S. the next book you will want to get is daredevil shadowland 😀

16 issues for $75?!?? Can someone explain to me why Marvel is charging almost $5 per issue for this book? Its a great read and I bought it just to complete my omnibus collection...but Marvel...you're lucky I didn't review this purchase too closely until I had the book in my hands.Would have gotten 5 stars had it been priced reasonably.

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Não há como dar cinco estrelas para o segundo omnibus do Demolidor de Ed Brubaker depois de ter lido a eletrizante, exasperante e não raro genial primeira metade de sua fase. Neste omnibus, por mais que a equipe de artistas mantenha o dinamismo visual, o roteirista parece ter esgotado suas melhores ideias, a ponto de (SPOILER ALERT) inventar uma Lady Bullseye - já vi gente elogiando, mas, sinceramente, não me cativou. É verdade que, ainda assim, há grandes momentos, sobretudo aqueles que mostram a fragilidade emocional de nosso herói. Poderia ser uma edição quatro estrelas? Poderia, mas as duas histórias extras sobre o Black Tarantula puxam a avaliação para baixo, assim como o preço alto.