Diggle & De La Torre's takeover of DD has been pretty seamless so far - if you weren't paying attention to the credits, you might just see #504 as more of the same gloriously gritty underworld machinations. Diggle's writing is just as taught & compelling as Brubaker's, and it looks like his plans for the title are even more epic. I love the idea of Matt using the Hand to police the police & Kingpin's plot to play his enemies against each other - I mean I guess that doesn't sound shockingly original, but the execution has been delightful.De La Torre and Hollingsworth create some really striking images here. Daredevil sitting atop his underworld throne, ensconced in candlight, smoke, and shadows is perfectly diabolic. Diggle's battlefield speeches may be a little over the top, but I like seeing Matt lead his soldiers into a hail of moonlit gunfire. Also there's the whole Shadowland thing. You know, Matt's indy prison in the sewers. The new shithole where he'll lock up Osborn's dirty cops? Shadowland. Wait, wha...? Awesome.
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