So Ed Brubaker's run comes to an end.

It ends in a way that a lot of people (including myself) predicted: Matt assumes the leadership of the Hand. But how he gets there is different then I'd expected, and it's played differently (almost as a good thing, rather than as a spiritual defeat; it ends with him praying for the first time in a while). Brubaker's stories are often reinvigorating an obvious story rather than throwing in twists just to surprise people.

We get a lot of information about Master Izo here, and he's easily, I think, Brubaker's most compelling contribution to the Daredevil mythos. He turns out to have been playing quite a game here; I'm not sure how much trust Matt should really place in him, based on this, despite his ultimate intentions (apparently) being good. Revealing that he trained Lady Bullseye and used her as a dupe was especially unexpected.

Speaking of her, I liked that she's still around. Writers tend to ice new villains they create to provide some finality to stories, since they can't permanently get rid of old standards like Kingpin (one imagines that Owl will soon be up-and-running again, though you could get some mileage out of his being crippled first).