Daredevil End of Days
Reading other “industry” reviews I was pretty suprised this was reviewed so high. I was wonderng why there was so much hype when the book began and barely any by the time it ended.. Spoilers. Basically Daredevil died in some near distant future of the post apocalypse of print media at the hands of Bullseye, and it’s up to Ben Urich on the final week of the Daily Bugle's publication to uncover the secret to Murdock’s final word “Mapone,” which apprently led to Bullseye’s suicide.
So Ben Urich being the suprisingly cander man he is, critises the contemporary newspaper moguls known as the everyman with a smartphone (who all took video of his death through the act of non-interfarence and spectatorship), had very few questions as to why Murdock ran around for 5 years getting all his exgirlfriends (Typhoid Mary, Millie, Elektra, not Echo) pregnant with all his kids and never visiting them, ask why they all decided to stay in NYC even though some were clearly in witness protection, had even fewer questions as to why Daredeil killed the Kingpin five years prior so publically and finally whether Daredevil had an ulterior motive as to why he made Urich adopt an orphan many years ago.
It was a mess of a narrative, with plot, thematic and characterisation holes galore. Eventualy Urich dies before he finds out the truth, his adopted son is revealed to be the new Daredevil, who was apparently being trained for years to become the new Daredevil (while unrepetantly killing another villian), Mapone is revealed to be the Daredevil and Black Widow’s daughter who is apparently the reincarnation of stick and the mentor to the new Daredevil, but nothing is revealed as to why she was named so oddly or why Bullseye would ever feel suicidal guilt for killing her mother. There I spoiled it for ya buy a different Bendis book.
Spider-Woman Agent of S.W.O.R.D.
It wasn’t bad, it was nowhere near as good as say Alias (same creative team and all, no way to avoid that kind of comparrison) but it had issues which may or maynot involve my ignorance of the Secret Invasion event. Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman is getting over her PTSD thanks to her kidnapping and replacement and reputation ruining by fundemental alien extremist sleeper agents known as ..the Skrulls. But luckily a clandestine organisation known as the S.W.O.R.D. gives her a new lease on life as they equip her with an alien detector watch and a “burner” to find and kill every sleeper Skrull agent on Earth.
So Jessica, thanks to an oppertunity sent to her via txt message, is sent to the South East Asian Country of Manipor (spelling?) where she encounters many curropt policeman, Hydra, Norman Osborn’s Thunderbolts, a girl conviced she was dating Spider-Man and Skrulls hiding in strip bars and Guantanamo style detension cells who utter the word of a God moments they attack her so that she (and once the Avengers) can kill them. In the end Jessica drew decides not to pursue this line of work because Wolverine says, don’t kill them because she's running away from pain.
But kill them because she wants to give pain ..its more cathartic. The motion comic ends on a more positive note as Jessica sends txts asking for more job offers. It was a good comic, way better than Bendis on Daredevil’s final days, just some of themes were a bit, umm odd, but again I never read secret invasion and all I know about the Skrulls belief system is ..they are extraterrstrial aliens. It's a good book, and the motion comic's pretty.