Oh hey, it's summer and you know what that means. No, it's not time to go to the beach, that's silly. No, it's not time to get yourself a new tan. No, friends, it means it's time for a large crossover event. Time for Shadowland, the event where Daredevil becomes evil and throws hordes of Ninjas at everyone!It's kind of cool to get an event that's actually on a smaller scale. This isn't for control of earth, or for the fate of the universe, instead focusing simply on New York City and the vast quantity of street level heroes that live and operate there. And it's nice to see things scaled down so much.
In our opening chapter, we find Bullseye escaping his captors and getting back to what he does best; killing people with sharp objects. And by people I mean Daredevil, which now means he aims to kill the hand. Of course Luke Cage and Iron Fist want to talk to Daredevil to see what's going on, but good ol' Bullseye beats them to it. What goes down next is Bullseye killing his way through Hand ninjas, the preferred cannon fodder of the street level Marvel Universe, before Daredevil just destroys him. With a (not too) shocking final page, we see that Daredevil isn't messing around here, and as one particular crappy music video shows us, there's no looking back. Until retcons happen, that is.
Billy Tan's art does it's job, even if I'm not necessarily blown away by it. It fits the story well enough and I really can't think of too much more to say about it.
Overall, this isn't too bad of a start. Not much really happens, but what does happen packs enough of a punch to bring me back. Just make sure to avoid those tie-ins, they'll kill your wallet.
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