What took the series from being simply good to becoming one of the best ongoing series being released, was with the addition of Chris Samnee as artist. Starting with Marcos Martin the book had a variety of short stints from artists Paolo Rivera, Marco Checchetto, Kano Emma, Emma Rios, Khoi Pham and Mike Allred. One of the great strengths of the run is that Waid was found a series of artists who perfectly conveyed the tone he was writing for the book. This gave the comic momentum and even when there was a slower issue the story still felt like it was always moving forward.
Often it took an issue or two on to move from one plot point to the next. Generally, the story arcs in this run flowed into the next fluidly despite the sometimes vast differences in villains. There are standard Daredevil villains like Kingpin, but there are others like Dr. Waid brought a fresh take to Daredevil and immediately won me over with a wide variety of villains. For a comic that has mostly been dark since the early 80’s, this approach to the character was the perfect follow up to the dreadfully disappointing run of Andy Diggle and Shadowland.
More than any other run on this list I would describe this run as fun. Notable arcs: The Autobiography of Matt Murdock, The Omega Effect (with Greg Rucka),įun.
3 #1-36, Daredevil: Road Warrior (one-shot in print, #1-4 digitally), Daredevil Vol. The duo would go on to do a variety of other books including Moon Knight, Spider-Woman, Halo: Uprising, Scarlet and a few Avengers titles. This was a great match as Maleev’s style of drawing meshed well with Bendis' writing. I would be remiss not to mention that most of Bendis’ run was drawn by artist Alex Maleev. The use of Ben Urich reminds me a lot of how Jim Gordon was really the main character in Frank Miller’s seminal Batman: Year One storyline. The book does tell the story of Matt Murdock, but the real story is that of Ben Urich. This book serves in many ways as the final Daredevil story and the end of his run on the character. While Bendis’ run was impressive, I think my favorite of his Daredevil work comes in the miniseries he co-wrote with David Mack, Daredevil: End of Days. Part of what made this run fun was that it overlapped occasionally with Alias or another book that Bendis was writing. Sometimes there would even be continuations of scenes that were happening in the other book. Only the second to last story, Decalogue, shows any dip in quality, and it seemed out of place in the run.
Notable Arcs: Hardcore, Underboss, Murdock Papers, End of Days (co-wrote with David Mack)īrian Michael Bendis had a hard task following the Kevin Smith and David Mack mini-runs that made Daredevil as critically acclaimed as it was popular. Bendis put together an exceptional run with a tightly plotted tale. 2 #1-6, Daredevil: End of Days #1-8 (with David Mack)
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