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- Denny O'neil's DaredevilFor a guy that is most synonymous with BATMAN (having been responsible for some of the things remembered in Batman: Arkham Asylum, Ra's Al Ghul, Talia League of Assassins etc.), Denny O'neil shines here... Denny O'neil is a legend in the comic world,having written Batman, GL/GA, Iron-Man, The Shadow, The Question etc. His Daredevil is excellent. If you read any of O'neil's stories, in any comic book, they all share 1 common trait: They all have built in philosophical underpinnings. Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost is a perfect explanation of how a blind lawyer who has many relationship problems would operate as a vigilante. These stories are boiled down, simplistic and exciting. While Frank Miller has written some of the best Daredevil, these comics are right up there as far as I'm concerned. Killing off Heather Glenn, in what apparently was a suicide, was great for Daredevil because it motivated him even more. VERY WELL DONE... classic Daredvil. Buy it and you won't be dissapointed. Rating: - Pretty good...This book picks up around the time that Frank Miller wrapped up his first run on the series and around the time right before Frank Miller started his second run on the series. It's caught between greatness, thus overshadowed by the better-known arcs, but it does a good job of holding the inbetween. Please, don't pass this book up just because it's not Frank Miller. It does have good stories in it (all except for one...surprisingly, it's the Frank Miller issue [Frank only wrote one issue and co-wrote another out of all the issues collected in here, by the way]), and the art is very good. While none of what you read in Love's Labor's Lost will be forever remembered as some of Daredevil's most defining and infamous moments (save, perhaps, Heather Glenn's suicide), all this book does is give more strength to the character of Matt Murdock/Daredevil, thus showing that he doesn't need Frank Miller to be good. This book shows that he's great just by himself.
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