I laughed until I cried.

This does have some cool dialogue, despite the typical Bendis use of ‘@%#*!!’. I find obvious censorship incredibly annoying.

I prefer that approach to having characters not swearing or having them use things like “spit” and “fudge” to stand in for the real swear words.

I’d prefer actual swearing, but @£$!% is the next best alternative for me.

Basically, having beaten the Kingpin, Matt realizes that there’s always a new crime boss because of the power vacuum. So he declares himself the new boss, and demands that all the lowlifes either go straight or leave town upon threat of serious violence. Meantime, he manages to use his legitimate money and connections to take over or resell a lot of the local real estate and clean things up that way, too.

I wasn’t buying comics when Bendis did Daredevil, so I missed the whole thing. This whole idea of him becoming a new Kingpin sounds strange and out of character, but I guess it probably made sense in context. (I guess I’ve read enough Bendis by now– mostly Avengers– to know what he’s like, and even when his stories aren’t very good, they usually have a pretty good internal logic.)

This does have some cool dialogue, despite the typical Bendis use of ‘@%#*!!’. I find obvious censorship incredibly annoying.

It does all look good, though. Don’t get me wrong. Sometimes I just sound more critical than I mean to.

The moment for this entire run (for me) was the nervous breakdown revelation. That was just fantastic writing.

It really was great.

The “Kingpin” idea was a great one, but for the most part Bendis just meanders around doing terrible stories about old DD side characters that don’teven play off the new status quo. The Widow’s situation has nothing to do with Matt’s new status, Bont wants revenge for things that have nothing to do with where DD is now, and the baby demon is just random idiocy in the middle of the one arc that actually does try to work it out. It’s as if, needing Wilson Fisk and Bullseye to be off-camera for awhile, Bendis tossed in some crummy filler arcs until h was ready to get back to his story for the title.

Actually , if anybody doesn’t get how the whole superhero thing works , it’s Bendis. Yeah , I give the guy a lot of flack but I still think his DD run happens to be his best work. Probably because it’s closest to his comfort zone of street level crime fiction. Put him on a “real” superhero ( as in “saving the entire world every day” ) title and he tends to fall back on blowing stuff up. Lots of sound and fury ultimately leading to nothing.

Maybe it’s just so pretty I get greedy and want to see more!

That WAS classic!

I think if I picked a moment from his run though it would be

SPOILER

Where DD declares himself Kingpin of Hell’s Kitchen