To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Daredevil, Marvel has released a double sized issue featuring different artists like Greg Horn, Chris Bachalo, P. Craig Russell, Michael Golden, with pin-ups by Jae Lee, David Finch, and Frank Quitely and a typical cover by Greg Land.
The story is a typical slow-pace story by current series writer Brian Bendis, focusing on the reactions of various super-heroes over the last year of developments in Matt Murdock's life including his recent secret identity troubles. Matt encounters Nick Fury, Spider-Man, Captain America, the Punisher, and Doctor Strange, who all give him advice and support (well, not the Punisher because, you know, he's homocidal.) in his time of crisis.
There are some fine art here by Russell and Bachalo as well as Golden whose interior art I haven't seen for some time now. But looking at Greg Horn's art I am reminded why I don't like CG-characters: the more "real" they try to make it look, the more inhuman and unrealistic it will look to me. But maybe that's just me.
Also, why are there no art from past Daredevil artists, like Scott McDaniel, Ron Wagner, or Cary Nord? (It was after all Nord's detailed art that drew me to Dardevil all those years ago.)
As for the story, it's well-written and up to standards, but having already read the last year or so of Daredevil issues, I wish that this had moved along the story in some way instead of this retrospective view of events that have already happened.
So, the anniversary issue really covers no new ground for DD fans, but it has a nicely written story with some cool, and not-so-cool, art. I guess it just depends if you want to shell out the $3.99.
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