Golden Age

Maleev here starts to experiment with emulating "old school" drawings. The images appear to be enlarged with dot colouring. This is perfect pop art. The plot of Alexander Bont coming out of prison to wreak vengence upon DD and Matt Murdock is good. Using enhanced superpowers granted to him from taking doses of mutant growth hormone is a simple plot device to enable a nobody like him to at least gain credibility in trying to defeat DD. Using the Gladiator as well to achieve his ends is stupid, but can be forgiven on the assumption that Alexander Bont had been locked away for a long time and the Gladiator was probably his only superhero link to the outside world.

I thought the was one of the best Daredevil arcs on the Bendis/Maleev run with the comic. I thought how the past comes to get Matt Murdock was good. The story is about pride and revenge and redemption which is well done. Bendis and Maleev defined not only Daredevil but Matt Murdock as well. If you are a fan of art as well this had a terrific run covers. The art itself is just terrific. Even if Bendis didn't get his history it shouldn't be held against him. Golden age was my personal favorite Daredevil arc. Buy it. You will not be dissapointed. End.

Completely explains the entire years before The Kingpin. Filled with human emotions and wonderful writing, I highly recomend this book to any Daredevil fan or comic fan otherwise. Wonderfully done and like all things by Brian Michael Bendis...sure to be a classic!

At the conclusion of the previous Daredevil volume, the Widow, there was news of the release of a man named Alexander Bont, a man who was the original Kingpin before Wilson Fisk, and a man who also has a connection to Matt Murdock. As Golden Age opens, Matt is partially in his Daredevil costume and chained up, while being beaten by his old reformed nemesis the Gladiator and recorded by Bont himself. As Bendis' story unfolds, he shifts the reader through time; introducing us to a young and power hungary Bont and his first encounter with Daredevil. Now, Bont is out of jail, and looking for revenge and to regain everything he lost because of the horned vigilante, and with word out of Daredevil's identity, Bont sets his sights on Matt. This is a classic crime noir story disguised in a Marvel comic, and if it's one thing that fans know Bendis can do, it's tell a great crime story. Alex Maleev's art gets better and better with each passing issue, and his black and white sections of the story revealing the past between Daredevil and Bont helps make Golden Age simply awesome. Bendis has said that with the next upcoming stories, he is taking DD in a different and more noir-ish direction, and if it's anything like Golden Age, than longtime DD readers may finally find something that rivals Frank Miller's classic Daredevil tales.