Invincible Iron Man #11 Review

Creative Team
Writer: Matt Fraction
Artist: Salvador Larroca
Colorist: Frank D'Armata

Story - World's Most Wanted Part 4: Breach

Review
Though "World's Most Wanted" started with a good opening chapter that showed the potential the story Fraction had. Since then the following two chapter's of "World's Most Wanted" has been a bit on the boring side. Fraction's story feels like a combination of two classic Iron Man stories "Demon in the Bottle" and "Armor Wars." And for the most part the story doesn't feel like Fraction has introduced anything new into the story other than integrating parts of the Iron Man film into continuity.

The thing about Invincible Iron Man #11 is that it has a weak beginning, an interesting middle, and non-compelling ending. My biggest problem with this issue was the beginning with Pepper training in order use her armor to its full potential. Now even though the idea of Pepper having to train do to her not having as high of an intelligence as Tony is actually pretty cool. I just find the A.I. that Tony installed to help with Pepper's training is called Jarvis. At the moment I heard the A.I. of the Iron Woman had was called Jarvis I just rolled my eyes as Fraction continues to integrate everything from the Iron Man film into Marvel's continuity.

Though I liked that Fraction returned Tony to being the playboy he should always be but has been thrown away over the past few years I think he is going to far with his fanboy obsession of the film. And I think it would have been much more interesting if the A.I system was actually called Tony instead as it could have lead to some funny dialogue between Pepper and a computerized Tony.

Even though the beginning of the issue was just one big eye roller, as I mentioned before, the middle of this issue was maybe the most enjoyable part of this issue. It is cool to see how even before the whole Dark Reign event happened Tony already had a plan in place in order to stay in contact with those closest to him. Fraction does an impressive job showing that Tony is always prepared for any problem he forsees happening in the future. I will be interested to see what role the new character introduced in this issue, Henry Hellrung, will play in the rest of this story.

I also continue to enjoyed how Fraction continues to develop Maria Hills character as more than just a character the reader loves to hate. Seeing Hill use all of her espionage training to infiltrate Futurepharm unseen. Though I wonder what she is doing in Futurepharm as I thought her mission was to get in contact with Captain America.

Now am I missing something or did Rhodey somehow magically transform into a cyborg. I don't remember seeing this transformation in any of the Iron Man comics. Is it something that was introduced in the new War Machine comic?

In any case that aside I found the whole fight between Tony and Rhodey that took up the last half of the issue to be uninteresting. The whole fight reminds me that I still have no idea why Fraction took away the Extremis powerup Tony had as the idea behind why he doesn't have it to be to convenient. Also I found Rhodey's whole involvement in trying to "capture" Tony to be questionable as I don't know if he choose to do it on his own or if it was Norman controlling the cyborg Rhodey.

The supposed hook ending was not much of a hook as I could care less about seeing a fight between Tony and Namor. And also I do not get how someone like Namor, who has never been known to take orders from someone else, to accept Norman's orders without question. Though maybe Fraction will surprise me and continue to show how Tony has planned all of this ahead of time.

Now the artwork by Salvador Larroca continues to have its positives and negatives. As always I find him to do a great job drawing the various Iron Man armors as he gives it that nice clean look the Iron Man armor should have. Though still I continue to find all of characters outside armors to have an unnatural look to them. It is like all the human's in Invincible Iron Man have gone through a car wax or something as they to shiney and stiff. And I don't see this aspect of Larroca's art to improve as this has been the case for every issue of Invincible Iron Man so far.

Issue Rating
Story: 6.3/10 - Though most of the issue was a bit to boring Fraction did a nice job with the Tony and Henry scene as well as Maria Hill's mission.
Art: 5.4/10 - Larroca's art continues to have its positives and negatives with the negatives outweighing the positive.
Overall: 5.85/10 - "World's Most Wanted" continues to feel like a rehash of previous Iron Man stories though this story still has some untapped potential.

Battle for the Cowl #1 Review

Creative Team
Writer and Artist: Tony Daniel
Inker: Sandu Florea
Colorist: Ian Hannin

Story - A Hostile Takeover

Review
After Batman RIP and Final Crisis as well as the Batman and Detective issues that followed those two major storylines my expectations for Battle for the Cowl has cooled especially when I heard that Tony Daniel was going to be both writing and drawing the series. It is nothing against Daniel but I never have read any of his writing before this series. Now even though I was not blown away from Battle for the Cowl #1 I was impressed that Daniel was able to make me buy into the idea that there is much potential to the next two issues. Also it seems that with the few months he has had off since RIP really help his artwork as it has never looked better.

Now anytime I read a new mini-series I try to see if it is something that a new reader can get into since I know a lot of people who want to get into comics but they don't know were to start. So one of the things that surprised me about this issue was that Daniel made this issue as new reader friendly as possible. There really isn't much for a new reader to know about other than that Bruce Wayne is dead or at least missing. As long as a new reader knows that and that Nightwing is the grown up first Robin and that Tim Drake is Robin the basic idea of all of Batman's allies coming together to defend Gotham City as the the city has gone to hell without Batman around. And if a new reader wants to be able to know what lead to Bruce Wayne's disappearance there 3 stories all in trade paperback form that you can read:

Batman: Batman and Son
Batman: The Black Glove
Batman: R.I.P

All three should already be in local comic shops and book stores since if there is one character DC has done a great job in collecting and distributing their story it is Batman. Now even though those stories aren't necessary to read BFTC if anyone is interested that would be the reading order before reading this issue.

Something else that Daniel was able to do well with his writing is how he wrote Dick, Tim, and Alfred's personality shifts with Bruce's not being around. It was interesting seeing Dick and Tim argue about Gotham needing Batman. Dick as the bigger brother in the family feels that as Nightwing along with the Network they can protect Gotham and that Batman is not a mantle and should die along with Batman, similar to how many fans feel about Batman. It continues what Tomasi was doing over in Nightwing as Dick as a character continues to move more towards being more like Bruce without realizing it. During that one page training sequence were Dick was breaking every one of the training dummies gives off some sort of deep anger Dick has as he has never been a fighter to use brute force but is more about finesse because of his acrobatic background. I will be interested to see when the real fight happens between Dick and Jason in BFTC #3 if Dick will employ more of the brute force he showed here or if he will keep his more acrobatic type fighting style.

I also thought it was cool seeing Alfred pick up more of a father role to Dick as he agrees with like Tim think it is only Dick's self-doubt that is holding him back from becoming Batman. It will be interesting to see if with this new Batman Alfred will be able to give Dick that push he needs to pick up the mantle as he tells him that he should realize now with a gun-totting Batman needs to be stop by the true heir to Bruce's legacy.

For Tim it has been interesting to see Daniel continue what Dixon and Nicieza have been doing with Tim continueing his evolution into a solo hero. With him taking up Squire as his "sidekick" it seems with this move along with him dressing up as Batman it is the final push to show he is ready to move on and pick up a new role as Red Robin. Tim's evolution from the Robin character is very similar with what happened with Dick once he quit being Robin and became Nightwing. Even though he did not have a fight with Bruce he has grown into being the leader of his generation of heroes by leading the Young Justice and Teen Titans, he has left the Titans to protect Gotham and to see were he should go with his career. While not completely similar the situation seems to be calling for him to be the new Red Robin we have been hearing about. And I think it would be cool if in the Red Robin series that Squire would become a supporting character at least as Tim and Squire share a fun chemistry as partners.

Now even though I thought Daniel nailed those three characters down I was disappointed to see that Daniel did not pick up on the video wills Bruce left behind for Alfred, Dick, Tim, and Jason. Through The Outsiders Special and Robin #183 we know that Bruce left different messages for each member of the Batfamily and so far we have only seen the message Bruce left for Alfred thus far. I was hoping that we would see one of the other video messages Bruce left behind for each of the Robins since they may play a role as to why each Dick, Tim, and Jason are acting the way they are in this issue.

One of my biggest problems with this issue is that this issue was to predictable. After reading the first few pages I felt that I could tell what was going to happen in this issue and the mini-series in general. The whole issue felt like it was going from point A to point B without doing anything to add a little mystery to various plotlines going on the story like the identity of who is the gun wielding Batman, more on him in a second.

The inner monologue of Tim started to get annoying towards the end as Daniel used it to much of a crutch to tell the story throughout the issue. It kind of felt like I was reading Bendis's New Avengers with the amount of inner monologue Daniel used in this issue. Hopefully he is able to tone it down in the next two issues.

Also I did not like that it was Black Mask who has turned up as the leader of most of Gotham's supervillains. Even though it is within his character we just have not seen enough of the character the past few years, especially within the last two years were he has been almost non-existent in the Bat-titles like Jason Todd. I would have much rather had preferred if it was Two-Face or Penguin who have both hinted at starting a gang through the various Bat-titles over the past year. I think the most logical choice would have been Two-Face since in the last story arc in Nightwing Two-Face seemed to have planned on being at Arkham and that he had some sort of plan for Gotham now that Batman is not around.

Outside of Dick, Tim, and Alfred Daniel does not do anything to develop the rest of the characters involved with the Network. Outside of a few panels none of the Network had a big moment in this issue which is something that peeves me off to see that in order to see what Oracle, Batgirl and other major Batman allies don't get any time to react to what is going on since the narrative of this story looks to be told from the perspective of one of the Robins each issue with this issue having Tim do the monologue and next issue will probably be Jason. Seeing what Oracle and Catwoman were thinking could have added some more weight to the story and a different perspective than just Nightwing and Robin arguing of who should be Batman.

I especially hated how Daniel portrayed Damien in this issue. I have always found him to be an annoying character but in this issue Damien did not act in any way like Morrison portrayed him. For character that has kicked Tim's ass and also shown to have no fear to anyone but his dad I thought Damien was a little chicken as he was shaking in his boots when confronted by Killer Croc. I just can't see Damien be scared of Killer Croc as he should have been more than happy to take on one of his father's rogues to show he is the heir to Bruce's thrown.

But my biggest problem with the issue was Jason all of a sudden becoming a gun wielding Batman. Even though Jason appeared for about a total of two issues in the last Robin story arc Jason last major story involvement in the Batuniverse was the One Year Later storyline over in Nightwing that involve him impersonating Nightwing. So because of that Jason as a character feels like he has become irrelevant within the Batuniverse compared to all the other characters, both hero and villain, in BFTC. It is not really Daniel's fault since one of the DC editors should have pointed this out sooner and had Jason more involved in one of the Batman titles storylines, maybe RIP for example. But because Jason has not been involved in any of the Batman storylines his involvement in BFTC just doesn't feel as natural.

Issue Rating
Story: 7.7/10 - Daniel was able to impress with his writing ability but the dialogue felt predictable and Tim's inner monologue throughout the issue got annoying at times.
Art: 9/10 - Outside of a few panels Daniels artwork was even better than his art in RIP. The team of Daniel, Florea, and Hanin gave the story a big budget movie feel to this issue.
Overall: 8.35/10 - Though I was hesistent about Daniel handeling both the writing and art duties he showed that Battle for the Cowl has plenty of potential and I look forward to the next issue.

Anime Review: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 15

"C's World"

Review
The first half of R2 has been one great episode after another. With the minor exception of the School Festival episode each episode of R2 has been able to stand out on its with each episode giving us at least one "Oh Shit!" moment. But for some reason I did not get that same feeling from watching this episode.

The episode started off strong with Lelouch coming up with a brilliant plan in order to "kill" his dad without having to look eye to eye. The plan in a nut shell was that Lelouch used a bunch of mirrors that were shot out of his Shikiro in and quickly used his Geass that bounced off one mirror to the next to reach the Emperor and ordered to kill himself. Now even though I knew the Emperor was not dead since he is one of the end bosses for this series it was still a cool move by Lelouch and it was as close to an "Oh Shit!" moment we would have in this episode.

After that first 5 minutes I couldn't help but be disappointed with the rest of the episode. This is not to say this was a bad episode but more like the whole story structure felt a bit to predictable with telling of CC's origin story and what her wish is. It might be because I have read to many books, comics, and manga that have some sort of immortal character but it is predictable that CC's wish(es) was to die. From what I can tell CC has been around for at least sometime before the American Revolution since I could not tell if were she was living during her time with only her Love Geass was somewhere in Great Britain or in one of the 13 colonies. So it was predictable that since the start of her contract with Lelouch that she wanted to be killed.

And you know what I would have been fine if that was her only wish since her origin story and the Love Geass she had before becoming immortal gives reason why CC is such a cold and detached person that she would want to die after living so long. But now that CC has lost her memory and turned back into being the slave girl she used to be before she got her Geass it feels like they regressed her character in order to just keep one of the most popular characters on the show. More than any other character death CC's death would have been the most shocking to see at the half way point and could have made this show even more unpredictable than it already was. But now I kind of feel like I can predict how this story is going with this move and that this adds nothing but filler for the story.

Now the most interesting part of this episode other than the first five minutes was the sub-plot involving Prince Schneizel and what looks to be some sort of Atomic Bomb-like weapon Nina created. Even though we only got about two minutes dedicated to this sub-plot it was cool to see since I have thought that Schneizel has his own endgame in mind that no one, not even the Emperor, knows about. I have found it weird that after the China arc Schneizel had disappeared and not been given any lines since the arc but hopefully with this new development we will see more of what Schneizel has planned and how it will ruin the Emperor's and Lelouch's plans.

For the other two sub-plots that went on during this episode I found them to not be very interesting. If there has been one character I could care less about it is Ohgi. Nothing against the character but the writers have not really developed his character enough for me to care about or hate. So I kind of hope he is dead since that will trim some of the cast down a bit since it is getting ridiculous how large the cast of characters, both main and supporting, they have that have played a much larger role than Ohgi has at this point.

Also the whole scene with Suzaku tempted to use Refrain on Kallen and later him lying to Nunnally to be a bit forced into this episode that does not develop his character any further. It wasn't hard to tell Suzaku would not use Refrain on Kallen since that would be to extreme for his character. And though I found him lying to Nunnally to be forced I do wonder how long he can keep up lying to Nunnally since she is like a sister to him

Overall while I did not hate this episode I did not like it and felt disappointed about how predictable this episode's story was. For how strong R2 has been this is probably my least favorite episode so far of the series and I hope this show gets back on track and we find out more about the endgame of various characters in the show since not much was revealed in this episode and we go back to the war aspect of this show.

Episode Rating - 6.2/10

Legen--wait for it---dary Comic Book Highlight for 3/4/09

Cover of the Week: The New Avengers: The Reunion #1

In a week were there wasn't really a stand out cover this cover for New Avengers: The Reunion #1 was the best out of the week. While I do not like Clint in the Ronin costume and would rather see him return to his Hawkeye costume I do like Mockingbird's new costume much better than her old one.

Daredevil #116 Highlights

This was just an amazing image by David Aja.

With all the evil stuff Wilson has done as Kingpin he is just one big softy that just wants to be happy with his own family. But........

just like what has happened to Matt over the past few storylines Wilson's past as Kingpin always comes back to haunt him and steal away the any shred of happiness he finds.

It will be a lot of fun to see how Wilson gets his revenge on Lady Bullseye and The Hand as he teams up with Matt to do it.

Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead? Highlights

Even though Guillem March's artwork was awesome in the Vicki Vale segment of this issue this whole segment felt more like I was following someone working at the Daily Planet than the Gotham Gazette.

Terror Titans #6 Highlights

While nothing of note from this issue, other than it being the end of this average mini-series, it was cool seeing Static in action to show that when he joins the Teen Titans they will have some serious fire power.

Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk Highlights

All you need to know about the first two issues that came out 3 years ago.

While pandas look cute they are some vicious animals as Wolverine learns in this panel.

1...2....3....4....5....6.....7.....8....9....10. KO! The Hulk wins?

And this is what we've all been waiting for: Ultimate She-Hulk.

War of Kings #1 Highlights

I never thought I would say this, but I feel bad for Ronin.

Black Bolt definetly knows how to pick a location of a wedding.

Coming this summer Wedding Crashers 2 starring Gladiator and the Guardsman.

Ronin shows how tough he is as it takes three Guardsman to bring him down.

The Shi'ar draw first blood in the war but now they have a pissed off Black Bolt and Medusa to deal with. Vulcan is not to smart.

X-Men and Spider-Man #4 Highlights

Who knew that Wolverine and Spider-Man and Wolverine were dating?

Ah the good old days.

Gotta love it whenever Nightcrawler uses his powers to fight the bad guy.

Just like any good hunter knows Xraven escapes the battle by combining Cyclops and Iceman's powers to make his escape as he fights a losing battle.

Just some great artwork by Mario Alberti as he did through the whole series.

Just as Spider-Man says something cool Wolverine has to ruin his moment.

Legacy Shorts: Comic Book Reviews for 3/4/09

Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?

Creative Team
Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Artists: Dustin Nguyen (The Veil), Guillem March (Vicki Vale), ChrisCross (Stephanie Brown), Jamie McKelvie (Leslie Thompkins), and Alex Konat and Mark McKenna (Harvey Bullock)

Story - Gotham Gazette: Batman Dead?

Review
With this issue we officially kick off Battle for the Cowl. And all I can say is that I was a bit underwhelmed. Nothing against this story but this one-shot would have been much better served if it came out the same week as or after Battle for the Cowl #1. The only thing that we get out of this issue is that Gotham City has gone to hell without Batman around. But this is something that is not new since the past few issues of Batman, Detective Comics, Nightwing, and Robin have all explored this aspect of Gotham without Batman. At this point I am already set for Battle for the Cowl to begin since we already had type of story told. Also after the Batman and Detective Comics two-part issue that involved The Veil I still don't find the character anymore interesting than she was in that story.

Still I'll give Fabian Nicieza credit for giving a sense of were Vicky Vale, Stephenie Brown, Leslie Thompkins, and Harvey Bullock some of the spotlight as they will probably only be playing minor to no role in Battle for the Cowl. Nicieza has a nice grasp of how each character feels after all the events they been individually involved in and how each character seems to have hit crossroad in each of their careers. The only thing I found annoying is that I would have like to see Leslie Thompkins reapperance happen in another story that happened after Battle for the Cowl instead of a short appearance in this comic.

On the art side we had one artist doing one characters story each and as always a artist by committee never works and this issue is no different. While each artist did a nice job with their part of the story they were given to draw once it is all put together the art styles of each artist does not blend well for a single issue. Though I'll say each artist was able to convey the dark and chaotic setting of Gotham without Batman. The only exception being Guilliem March who drew the Vicky Vale story was a bit to bright and colorful for the type of story being told here that the beginnning of the issue felt more like a scene from the Daily Planet than a Gotham City newspaper company.

Issue Rating
Story: 6/10 - Nicieza did an good job showing how Gotham looks without Batman but the timing of this issue keeps it from being as good as it should be.
Art: 6.7/10 - Each artist did a fine job illustrating their segment of the story but when put together the different art style do not mix well with each other.
Overall: 6.35/10 - Timing aside this issue might have work better if we also had some more cameos from other major players for Battle for the Cowl since this was the first title that is a part of the event.

Terror Titans #6

Creative Team
Writer: Sean McKeever
Artist: Joe Bennett
Inker: Jack Jadson
Colorist: JD Smith

Story - One Second to Midnight

Review
It may be because I have lowered my expectations of getting anything great from most team books, outside of Guardians of Galaxy, especially when it comes to the recent portrayal of the Titans franchise but I actually enjoyed this issue for what it is: one big battle sequence with little substance. Most of my enjoyment from this issue, and this whole series, has been Ravager as she continues to be the most interesting Titan, even if she is not officially on the team, right now. It was good to see her finally take down the Clock King and get her revenge for being used. Though I don't know how I feel about the Terror Titans still being around since I find all the members to be one-note villains and would have like to see Ravager cut loose and killed each one of them.

From the looks of the final pages of this issue and the cover for the next issue of Teen Titans it looks like Miss Martian, Aquagirl, and Static are going to be on the team. Maybe with the addition of those characters we will get some interesting character interactions which is something Teen Titans has been missing for a while.

Issue Rating
Story: 6.8/10 - McKeever did nothing special but it got the job done as this series is now over.
Art: 7.8/10 - Bennett did a good job with his artwork and was the only highlight of this mini-series as he provided plenty of nice action sequences
Overall: 7.2/10 - I can only recommend this series for long time Titan fans who have been reading the current titles. Just don't come in expecting much from this story or else you'll be disappointed.

X-Men and Spider-Man #4

Creative Team
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Mario Alberti

Story - The Mutant Hunter

Review
Even though the last issue was the weakest issue in this mini-series this still has been a well told story that has explored various periods of the X-Men and Spider-Man's history. Christos Gage has done a great job capturing Spider-Man and the X-Men through the various eras and the changes each character has gone through since the start of their superhero careers.

I found myself smiling as Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men joked about how Wolverine has spent a lot of time with Spider-Man since they are both part of the New Avengers. It's just funny seeing how Wolverine gets defensive about it since it is known that he usually appears in about half of Marvel's titles right now.

The plot of Mr. Sinester creating his own mutant hunting clone using the DNA of Kraven and combining it with the original X-Men is nothing we haven't seen before in comics but like any good comic writer Gage was able to take this story and pack it with some great dialogue and action. Gage keep this issue on a nice flow as Spider-Man and the X-Men realized that they were not just fighting a Kraven clone called Xraven but also themselves as the Xraven used all of the original X-Men's powers with great proficiency.

Even though Gage did a great job with all of the dialogue it was Mario Alberti's artwork that is the real star of this mini-series. Alberti, like Marcos Martin, has done an excellent job with his artwork having a Jack Kriby feel to it. All of the artwork in this issue has a lot of energy with plenty of detail that at times while reading the issue I would just look at Alberti's artwork as the X-Men and Spider-Man try and fight off Xraven.

Issue Rating
Story: 8.3/10 - Gage does a great job packing mixing this issue with plenty of good dialogue and action.
Art: 9/10 -Alberti provides this issue with plenty of great artwork that I hope we get to see him get a run on Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men, or any other Marvel title.
Overall: 8.65/10 - If your a Spider-Man or X-Men fan I highly recommend you get this mini-series when it comes out in trade paperback as you will enjoy all the reference to the various stories in both franchises history.

Daredevil #116 Review

Creative Team
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Artist: David Aja
Inker: Stefano Gaudiano
Colorist: Jose Villarrubia

Story - Return of the King: Prologue - On the Costa Da Morte

Review
I have to admit that after War of Kings and Blackest Night events "Return of the King" was the story I have been looking forward to the most this year. Ever since the beginning of Dark Reign I have felt that if it started a few years ago it would have been Kingpin in the place of Norman Osborn as the Director of H.A.M.M.E.R. While Norman was mostly a threat to Spider-Man, until recently, Kingpin has always been one of the biggest villains in the Marvel Universe that posed a threat to every hero not just to one.

Between this issue and War of Kings #1 I don't know which comic was the book of the week for me. Both were excellent reads. But if I had to pick one Daredevil #116 would be my choice. Ed Brubaker did a great with this prologue issue that focused completely on Kingpin and the new life he built for himself with the family that let him in.

For all the irredeemable qualities Kingpin has at his core he is a family man who has always looked for a happy life with a wife and kids. But just like Matt the thing that has keep Kingpin from having that happy ending life he seeks is the line of work he had chosen for himself as the Kingpin of Crime. I actually felt a bit happy for Kingpin as he found a family that was able to accept him and calm the wild beast inside of him which is what made the final scene even more sad as he lost the family he always wanted to his past at the Hands revenge.

My favorite aspect of this issue was how Brubaker used this issue to show that even though Matt and Kingpin have been enemies for a long time, having tortured one another throughout their history, that they are mirror images of one another. As I mentioned earlier, just like Matt the thing keeping Kingpin from being happy is the line of work he chose to be in in his past. For both characters their worst enemy are themselves. No matter how hard each one of them tries to not get in their own way they find a way, whether it is consciously or unconsciously, to do something that cause them to never be happy for to long. And with the awesome cover of Daredevil and Kingpin shaking hands in the next issue it will be interesting to see what happens if both former enemies team up to take down a similar enemy.

Though Michael Lark has the right type of art style for this books dark and street-level feel I loved David Aja's artowork in this issue. His artwork did a great job conveying the new life Kingpin built for himself and the utter sadness he felt once that life is taken away from him. My favorite part of the whole issue from Aja's artwork was the single page that had a silhouette of Kingpin's face as we see it filled with images of Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Bullseye. That was just a great image that helps to illustrate how tired of his previous life Kingpin is.

Issue Rating
Story: 9.5/10 - Brubaker did a perfect job showing us what happened to Kingpin as he has moved on to a new life that is quickly taken away from him in front of his eyes.
Art: 8.6/10 - Aja does a wonderful job packing this issue with tons of emotion especially as Kingpin see his new family dead when he gets home.
Overall: 9.1/10 - For anyone that has been upset over how Kingpin has been portrayed these past few storylines you will want to read this issue. And if you have either dropped this title in the past or are looking to get into Daredevil this is a great issue to come back to or jumping on point.