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Title: Daredevil Legends: Typhoid Mary by Ann Nocenti, Greg Rucka, Carlo Pagulayan ISBN: 0785110410 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3
Rating: 3
Summary: A book with a lot of shining moments, but slacks off.
Comment: This book is a little hard to review. It has all the markings of a Daredevil classic -- tragedy, love, conflict, et cetera -- but it also has parts that are mediocre, boring or confusing.
Daredevil: Typhoid Mary introduces a new and great villain to Matt's rogues' gallery. What makes this book good is its relationships between the characters (Mary, Typhoid, Kingpin, Matt, Daredevil, and Karen). This is the best part of the book and I just wish that the author, Ann Nocenti, concentrated more on them. Instead of her centering and expanding on the relationships between the characters she gives in to boring action sequences towards the end of the book, after it started off nicely. There are useless appearances from Johnny Storm (the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four), which were meant for comedic value but come off as childish and unamusing.
And, perhaps the strangest part of this book, the ending leaves much to be desired. It barely has anything to do with what has happened in the previous chapters. Basically what happens is, hell invades Manhattan. (I can't put the blame on Nocenti for that part, though, because it was a crossover event, titled "Inferno," between a lot of the Marvel properties that the editors probably enforced all series to undergo a part in.) It detracts from the overall value of the book and it's a distraction from what we should be paying attention to.
Also, the writer redundantly expresses her feelings on war in a portion of the book. It's worthless to the overall story and she just uses the two main characters, rather unfairly I might add, to spread her pro-peace message. WE GET IT, YOU DON'T LIKE WARS OR NUKES.
If you ignore the Johnny Storm appearances, the peace propaganda, the unexciting fight sequences (the good action pieces are the ones between Typhoid and Daredevil), and the incoherent ending, you've got a pretty good book on your hands.
I know that I've painted a bad picture of this book, but I honestly must say that the shining moments in Daredevil: Typhoid Mary -- such as the taboo relationship between Matt and Mary, the failing connections between Matt and Karen (and Matt and Foggy, for that matter), the unusual and malignant "love" between the Kingpin and Typhoid, and so on -- deserve to be read, for they do make for a great story. Take the good with the bad. It's worth it in this case because the good is really, really good.
And John Romita Jr. shows off some pretty nice artwork.
Don't pass this book up. Its shining moments are worth the cover price.
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Title: Daredevil: Lowlife by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev ISBN: 0785111050 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Daredevil: Wake Up by Brian Michael Bendis, David Mack ISBN: 078510948X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Daredevil: Out by Brian Michael Bendis, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson ISBN: 0785110747 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Daredevil: Love's Labors Lost by Dennis O'Neil, Denny O'Neil, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, John Buscema, David Mazzuchelli ISBN: 0785110291 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Daredevil Legends: Born Again by Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli ISBN: 0871352974 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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