The Five Faces of DAREDEVIL: LOVE AND WAR

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The watercolor art is at best bizarrely beautiful but regrettably gets confusing most of the time. The lack of actual detail forces the reader to imagine the events unfolding in front of them more than usual.

Kingpin, one of Marvel's greatest villains, is bigger and more vulnerable than ever before, and you can almost feel his fear and anger.

There's some brutality here that perfectly suits the darker and more humane side of Daredevil. It's the type of violence and gore that could be pulled from any Batman story but fits Daredevil just as well.

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Frank Miller, a modern comic book legend, gives us a story with very little actual, or fresh, content. The lack of an actual plot is hidden by the experimental art style and confusingly philosophic and repetitive dialogue.

The dialogue is confusing and difficult to follow - it oftentimes makes me annoyed as a reader, which probably isn't the idea.

Daredevil is barely in the story and does nothing interesting or significant. Miller's portrayal of the character feels superficial and not very fleshed out.

A lot of focus is put on the goon working for Kingpin, but he is neither interesting nor particularly memorable.

The finale is kind of ruined by the art style, which just gets more disordered the more action is depicted on the panel. The bigger splash images are beautiful, but watercolors don't do action and Daredevil's stunts any justice.

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You could call Miller's vision artistic and his story unusually touching and humane, but only if you understood what was going on. Now I found myself scratching my head and trying to figure out who does and says what and when.

This is one of those classic stories that have become classics thanks to its famed writer and unusual art style. There's no good reason for it to be considered a classic, though, since there is barely a story to it.

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The Final Face: 😐 ( )