SHADOWLAND #4 (OF 5)

Review by: Shiren

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WRITER: ANDY DIGGLE
PENCILS: BILLY TAN
INKS: VICTOR OLAZABA
COLORED BY: CHRISTINA STRAIN
LETTERED BY: NEUROTIC CARTOONIST, INC
COVER BY: JOHN CASSADAY

Size: 32 pages
Price: 3.99

I want to start off and say that to me this book has become nothing more then an excuse by marvel to try to pull people into the world of daredevil. The only reason this book at all is a stand alone title is because it dosent fully follow daredevils point of view and they threw in a good chunk of characters from the new avengers. Funny enought the only title that this has any real story effect with outside of one shots or tie ins is the daredevil series which is exactly why this title belongs as a daredevil story arc and not a big marvel story arc. I feel unless you where reading daredevil to begin with you are lost as to all this happened in the first place and its not even a big enough event to bring in the avengers in anyway just those that get asked to help with the problem who are based in New York like Spider-man, Punisher and others.

As we are just coming back from daredevil trying to ressurect Bullseye after he killed him we are left with the start of what seems like the final battle to come. Now Andy Diggle has been doing a pretty good job of writting a semi interesting story but i keep feeling that the same things are happening in repeats. People are worried about Daredevil, they go to talk to him, they fight him, they lose. Then they get more people, they talk to him, fight him, lose. I feel like the story isnt going anywhere other then Daredevil getting more pissed off and matt murdok becomeing less and less in control.

However on a nice redeeming note, I have very much been enjoying Billy Tan’s drawling and Guru Efx colors. They blend perfectly to each others styles and leave for some stunning panals. I love how the art is being pushed more and more with diffecult posses and acrobating stances along with the coloring being pushed with Daredevils Evil vision as i like to call it. More or less its just heat vision but I can imagin just coloring one panel of heat vision being semi difficult let alone three nice sized panels of it.

I am looking forward to this being over as soon as possible so I can move on to bigger and better things and all and all I still believe this would of done so much better as a Daredevil story arc instead.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good

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