Daredevil: Born Again

"And I -- I have shown him... that a man without hope is a man without fear." The definitive Daredevil tale! Karen Page, Matt Murdock's former lover, has traded away the Man Without Fear's secret identity for a drug fix. Now, Daredevil must find strength as the Kingpin of Crime wastes no time taking him down as low as a human can get.

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LibraryThing member GeorgMayer

The first graphic novel by Frank Miller I ever read - afterwards I was a fan of him and David Mazzucchelli. I think it was also one of the first comics that I read in English language. This book is a great adventure and it is perfectly drawn - I have read it many times and it always keeps me

turning the pages until the last one is reached.

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LibraryThing member branimal

Miller did a great job with Batman in the past, it was probably an easy transition into Marvel's version of "Batman". It wasn't a bad novel by any means but I think I somehow expected more from what critics called "The Defining Daredevil Story".

LibraryThing member coffeesucker

Awesome story and artwork - Miller at his best!

LibraryThing member Girl_Detective

Even at twenty plus years old with garish colors, it remains undiminished as a classic of the superhero genre. Only when there’s a true collaboration, and the writer and artist are working together as Miller and Mazzucchelli do here, and both bringing more to it than each could individually, do

you get a great work, a classic, like this one.

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LibraryThing member comixminx

This is probably the only bookshelf comic I have left with Miller's name on it, and I nearly got rid of it too. But I started flicking through it, and it is actually really pretty good. Written by Miller and drawn by Mazzucchelli in 1987, it has all the energy and power that made people think how

good Miller was, while showing little of the tics and distasteful attitudes that have put me off his work from Sin City onwards.

Mazzucchelli's art is great - solid in the interiors, beautiful on the cover. I wondered slightly if in some places Miller might have inked bits as there is some similarity between their art styles, but frankly give me Mazzucchelli's style over Miller's empty stylishness any day.

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LibraryThing member Kurt.Rocourt

One the best Daredevil stories ever, written by the best Daredevil writer, Frank Miller.

LibraryThing member aadyer

An excellent piece of writing from Frank Miller again. With the deconstruction & reconstruction of Daredevil taking centre stage. Gripping, gritty, and involving, this is great Marvel Comics with a great character as well.

LibraryThing member nicolewbrown

This collection of comics opens with Karen Page selling Matt Murdoch's name as Daredevil for a fix to some bad guys in Mexico. It goes up the chain of command until it reaches Mr. Fisk, or Kingpin as he is widely known. Fisk decides to go after Matt and destroy his life. He makes it so that he is

two months late on his mortgage and the IRS is doing an audit on him and had frozen his accounts.

Fisk gets charges brought up against Matt by an honest cop that he got witnesses to purgery themselves on the stand. Foggy argues his case and keeps him out of jail but he loses his law license. That's not all he's losing. He's beginning to lose his mind. He lost his girlfriend Glori who is now working at the Buggle taking pictures.

Reporter Ben Ulrich suspects that something is going on and begins to investigate but even he gets scared off of the story. And Karen has people trying to kill her and she knows the only person who can save her is Matt and he's in New York and he's also the person she betrayed. But she has to get there for him. As Daredevil, Matt has gone rogue and is beating people up badly whether they deserve it or not.

Then he goes after Fisk and Fisk beats him up badly and sets him up in a car to die but he escapes and goes to the Church where Maggie works. Maggie who had helped him when he first found out he was blind. Maggie nurses him back to health and he meets with Karen and deals with his feelings for her. Also, Nuke the experimental super-soldier who was a bit of a mistake that the government uses on projects outside of the country has been tasked with getting Daredevil and destroying him.

These are amazing comics and Frank Miller and company are the best at what they do. This is truly one of the best Daredevil stories ever written. He is brought so low to a point that would break a normal man, but Daredevil, Matt, becomes a man without hope, who is a man without fear and can take on anything. Even when his friends seem to desert him he can still stand tall and not let Fisk win. There's also included a comic called Warrior about an old acquaintance of Matt and Foggy's who has gotten himself into trouble that Daredevil must get him out of. I give this book five out of five stars.

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LibraryThing member runningbeardbooks

When there is a well-plotted plan to destroy your reputation, career, home, loved ones... and then your life... when do get desperate, and when do you go mad? Matt Murdoch becomes 'a man without hope'... and a man without hope,'is a man without fear.'

Beautiful work, still some of the best writing

and art in the history of comics.

The one criticism, is the Nuke character, which is not far removed the Rambo concept. Not necessarily a bad idea, just a stretch in plot, in order to include Captain America.

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LibraryThing member booktsunami

I bought this when I was designing a graphic art book which I used for conveying complex information in Austrade. (I was not the graphic Artist but came upon with the concepts and actually used some ideas from here. The quality of the graphic art in this comic is exceptional. Very creative.

Unfortunately, I'm now in the position of having to downsize my library and this book is one of the casualties. Pity but I won't be using it. I give it three stars.

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