A review by jexjthomas
Daredevil by Mark Waid, Volume 2 by Mark Waid

4.0

While I didn't like this volume quite as much as the previous one -- I wish that the wonderful Paolo Rivera had penciled all the issues, and the constant expository captions to re-establish who Daredevil is and what's currently happening in the story was a little distracting -- but it was still quite good, carried by Waid's new and compelling take on the classic character. I find myself a lot more interested in that side of it -- the character work, the relationships Daredevil has with those around him, and with himself -- than the ongoing story, which I feel is fairly standard comics fare.

Spoiler

The entire omega drive plot feels a little silly to me; if it would really be so disastrous if the information contained within got out, if it would truly topple governments over the course of only days, then why is Daredevil able to release SPECTRE's files? Are we to believe that he and Reed Richards sorted through it all, and picked out only what was damning to SPECTRE? If they had that power, why is Daredevil even bothering to negotiate with the megacrime syndicates? Why not just release all their information, and let them be busted just like SPECTRE was? What could be an interesting riff on WikiLeaks ends up feeling more like a lame MacGuffin.

I did enjoy the interplay between Spider-Man and DD, and I enjoyed DD's brief tryst with Black Cat, and I'm still glad to see Daredevil as a book that's high on adventure rather than angst and darkness.