The final issue of Miller's original Daredevil run is a standalone story, but it concludes Daredevil's rivalry with Bullseye after the previous issue wrapped up Elektra's story. Matt, seemingly broken by the past few months of his life, plays Russian Roulette with the paralyzed Bullseye, telling the story of how the revolver ended up in his hands. Well this was the missing link for a long time. I've read Bendis legendary run, brubaker, waid, and so on. I, however, never did read the original Frank Miller run. I did read Born again, I did read Man without fear, and while I enjoyed both I didn't love them. This...I oddly fell in love the second Miller jumped on as head writer. This is a handsome collection of Frank Miller's initial run of Daredevil. However, the whole run is not created equally. If you ask me, it’s hard to even conceive a better superhero than Daredevil. He’s got it all, and just in the right amount: Supernatural skills that essentially fall short compared to the set of skills he’s acquired through hard work and discipline, yet enough hot-headedness to screw up said hard work and discipline, a childhood trauma on top of another childhood trauma, plenty of brooding to last him five lifetimes and enough moral ambiguousness to save him from being disgustingly good. So much drama! Such tension! And his (new) costume is really cool, too. This book had some comedic moments, mostly with Turk. It was a nice way to break up the darkness of this.

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Characterization is also a bit mixed for me with some characters being rather one dimensional (Foggy, Bullseye) while others are more well rounded or intriguing. Interpersonal relationships were well explored and less lionizing than the typical superhero fare which I appreciated as well.

This issue starts with young Miller experimenting with one of his future tropes: narration by tv screens!

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As for the omnibus itself, well, look: if you've read more than 1 comic by now, you've probably heard of this run. And the reason you have is because it's as great as everyone makes it out to be. Also is the Frank Miller run a self contained story/volume/series or is it just a list of all the Daredevil comics he's worked on without any real connection? And are "The Man Without Fear", "Born Again", and "Reborn" separate series or are those part of said run? Frank Miller's spellbinding scripts and pulse-pounding pencils mark one of Daredevil's greatest eras - but will the Kingpin and Bullseye's efforts rob the Man Without Fear of everything he holds dear? Pero ya entrando en el aspecto técnico, lo que realmente destaca de la etapa de Frank Miller en Daredevil, lo que marcó el mundo del cómic en los años posteriores, es el estilo del dibujo y lo bien que se complementaban dibujante y entintador, Miller planteando las páginas y haciendo los bocetos y Janson dando detalle y profundidad al dibujo. Miller utilizó todo el repertorio de técnicas que aprendió de los cómics del maestro Will Eisner, en especial Spirit, para plasmar el movimiento y la acción de daredevil... puso mucho énfasis en retratar los barrios de New York, creando una ambientación genial para las aventuras del personaje, huyó de las estructuras clásicas del comic book para presentar las páginas de forma inusual en la época, con grandes viñetas rectangulares, tanto panorámicas como verticales que eran más adecuadas para representar la ciudad y el movimiento del protagonista por ella, asimismo, Miller fue capaz de realizar un dibujo fluido y fácil de interpretar para el lector, de manera que se podía arriesgar a presentar gran cantidad de páginas que reflejaban la acción sin cuadros de texto que la explicaran, cosa bastante inusual en aquellos momentos. Incluso a día de hoy sorprende lo fácilmente que se leen estos cómics.This run signalled a change in the winds of the comic landscape. A slight breeze had now come over it and Miller was creating it. On his Daredevil run, he broke the mold that had been the standard on marvel. His stories had depth, something that Marvel was struggling to find. The template was to have the hero meet the villain and for the villain to go to jail after a bit of a romp. Frank Miller didn’t do that. He made a villain who was too powerful and rich to go to jail. The template was not to let stories spill over into the next issue too much. Frank Miller used every issue he had on this run to tie into the last one he wrote and made everything connected. The breeze in the comic landscape was truly blowing and in a few years when The Dark Knight Return came out, that breeze would turn into a tornado. Matt Draper, a comics-focused YouTuber who likes to analyse every bit of Daredevil lore as if it was Dostoevsky, has this video on the story. So watch that if you want to hear about its themes: crime and redemption, salvation through love, perdition through loss. Whatever. As with most Omnibus focused on a creator, the reader will need to get through a few issues where the creator (Frank Miller) plays a smaller roll, but when Miller is given position of "Writer" the story begins to take off within a few issues. Miller begins his own process of what a few Marvel writers before had true success with; an continuing interlaced story from issue to issue, rather than each issue being a "villain of the week." Also note that, before Miller came along, the Daredevil comic was floundering on the edge of cancellation. Not only did Miller re-invent horn head, he literally saved his very existence. Ok, so I liked this, I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would. Miller's Daredevil run is one of the most lauded, most hyped runs of any character, at least in my experience anyway. To say I was going into this expecting something special would have been an understatement. I'd had the book for months and was holding onto it for a special occasion. Waiting for that moment when I needed a guaranteed winner to wash the taste of mediocrity out of my mouth. Did this book suffer from my ungodly level of expectation... maybe... probably... almost certainly. It's still pretty bloody good though.