Daredevil Visionaries - Frank Miller, Vol. 3

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Summary: The downhill slope for Miller's Daredevil
Review: After building steadily to a peak with the death of Elektra in #181, Frank Miller had done pretty much everything he needed to with Daredevil. Volume 3 of the DAREDEVIL VISIONARIES: FRANK MILLER series proves this with a run of subsequent stories that basically mark time: they're okay, but they don't amaze like the previous issues. This book collects Daredevil #183-191, What If? #28 & 35, and Bizarre Adventures #28. The real stinker for me was the "final breakup" of Matt and Heather, done in such a awkward and trite fashion... I figure Miller wrote himself into a corner with this plotline and took the easy (albeit inexplicable) way out. The last 3 stories (What Ifs and Bizarre Adventures) don't do much. Where a WHAT IF story will ususally make me go "whoa", these made me shrug. I guess the BA story would have been okay if Marvel could have printed the pages in the correct order. Once again, fans pay the price for the laziness of proofreaders.

In summary, Volumes 1 and 2 are defintely worth it. Volume 3 is not.