Art makes a huge difference in a visual medium like comics. The Story can be good but if the art is lousy it will impair the ability of the writer to fully communicate their message.

That said the art was well done here. And the story was engaging. I don;t consider myself a big daredevil fan. But, this starts out with him in Jail. Suspected and accused of being Daredevil. And then he gets thrown in to the general populace in an effort to either get him to defend himself and prove to everyone he is daredevil or so he will die. Of course several people he put in prison are there too. So it makes it very interesting. And this is just the start of all the story in this book. It's nicely long so you will have to have an hour or two at the least if you want to read it in one sitting.

I personally like that the story fits together so well rather than it being several separate stories. If this team remained on this book I would certainly keep up with the books. Sadly Marvel keeps changing up their author and artist teams. ( )

Daredevil's life is taken apart, piece by piece, in this extended run from Brubaker and Lark. It is beautifully done but man is it dark. Well, duh, it's noir, but still, by the end of this collection, I felt as devastated as Daredevil. It isn't his superpowers that make him a hero, it's simply the ability to wake up each day and do it again after all the crap that keeps getting piled on. ( )