3.5 Razors

• Title: The Mission #6 (of 6)
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• Writers: Jon and Erich Hoeber
• Artist: Werther Dell’Edera

Do you believe in good an evil? What would happen if you were chosen against your will to take part? How far are you willing to go to protect yourself and your family? Paul has been asked to retrieve the box for Gabriel and he knows all too well what failure might bring.

The mini-series featuring a normal family man thrown into a world of spies, killers, and religious artifacts ends with Paul answering those questions for himself. After sitting down for drinks with a member of the other team, and getting a straight answer for once, Paul learns just how far he will go by torturing Luke for the location of the mysterious box.

The series may be over, but the final page twist tells me we having seen the last of Paul or his mission. Plenty of questions will be answered, although far more will be raised, in this final (for now at least) issue of the series. I’m looking forward to see where the title goes from here. Worth a look.

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• Title: Daredevil #1
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• Writer: Mark Waid
• Artist: Paolo Rivera

Marvel’s latest reintroduction of Daredevil features the hero stopping a kidnapping by the Spot at a mobster wedding. Of course, our hero doesn’t leave before kissing the bride.

The comic, much like Matt Murdock himself, is less successful at attempting to reintroduce Murdock’s life now that everyone knows he’s Daredevil even though he still denies it publicly. His response is nothing more than “Am not!” If the choice isn’t to have Murdock embrace the public nature of his less-than-secret identity (as Tony Stark has) some form of retcon seems to be in order.

Although this gray area might provide plenty of ammo to help screw up Murdock’s personal life and his role as a lawyer, his response being nothing more than a blanket denial isn’t going to work for very long (nor should it).

The first issue is a good re-introduction to the character plopping the Murdock right back into his old life (even if it does skirt the consequences of Shadowland). Worth a look.

[Daredevil, $3.99]