Paolo Rivera helped Waid re-launch the title, penciling six of the first ten issues, and while the classic look of his work is amazing, his most important contribution may be his depiction of Daredevil's radar sense. Of course, the visual aid provided by Waid's various artists is integral to this run's success. In adopting a brighter, sometimes humorous, swashbuckling take on the character, he not only succeeded in breaking from the norm, but also managed to touch on some pretty dark subject material as well (like my film reviews, I'm going to keep this as spoiler free as possible). Mark Waid came to the book wanting to do something different than what had become the norm: dark, crime-noir tinged stories that had left Matt Murdock's life in a perpetual state of shambles. So of course I picked up both the Silver Age and Mark Waid Vol. I have picked up and read the Daredevil title monthly for years, but I always try to grab the nicest version of the material in collected form as they are better for multiple readings than repeatedly rummaging through single issues. Many omnibus collections of classic material can be so large that they are a bit unwieldy and difficult to handle for reading, but omnibi collecting more modern material tend to be split into multiple volumes and thus much more manageable. They also look really good on the bookshelf. I also love the omnibus format, which collects large chunks/runs in one place. Old news to anyone that has ever read my blog: Daredevil is my favorite character.

Fortunately for my wallet, I already have those two collections from their original printing a few years ago. By the middle of the year, reprints of the two omnibi collecting the Ed Brubaker/Michael Lark run will have also been released. February saw the release of the first Silver Age Daredevil omnibus and the first week of March gave us this collection of the first half (almost exactly to the issue) of Mark Waid's run that began in 2011. The beginning of 2017 has been wonderful for fans of collected editions of Daredevil.

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