Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 11-13 - .380/The Dark at the End of the Tunnel/A cold day in Hell's Kitchen

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 2 episodes 9-10 - Seven Minutes in Heaven/The Man in the Box

We’re back with Daredevil season 2 and it seems to be strong thus far, I remember hating this second half the first time around, could I have been wrong? Let’s continue and find out

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 7-8 - Semper Fidelis/Guilty as Sin

We’re back to look at more Daredevil. When I originally watched it’s about this point where my opinion on the series began to sour, is this still the case?

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 5-6 - Kinbaku/Regrets Only

Let’s go…

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 3-4 - New York's Finest/Penny and Dime

We’re back with 2 more episodes from Season 2 of Daredevil

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 2 Episodes 1-2 - Bang/Dogs to a gunfight

It's 2018, time to revive Netflix Retrospectives

Through 2018 I’ll be doing frequent retrospectives on Netflix shows, I’m gonna put a 1-year cut-off date on it to make sure you have time to see it before going into this, because it will involve spoilers as I give a rundown of the plot. Let’s start off with the sequel to the Marvel Netflix original series, this is season 2 of Daredevil.

4 Issue Test #42 - The Defenders

Note: At the point of typing the Defenders series hadn’t come out yet.

Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones, together they are the Defenders, a street level Superhero team that deal with things below the pay-grade of people like the Avengers. I’ve reviewed a lot of their individual outings with all but Jessica Jones not meeting the standard I look for in comics.

So, in the writer’s seat we have Brian Michael Bendis. If you ever want the definition of a hit-and-miss writer, look up Bendis. I literally did an editorial on why Civil War II was a piece of sh*t. But Bendis also wrote Jessica Jones which I enjoy and was responsible for all the Miles Morales Spider-man issues, which have mostly been good, so maybe something’s here to enjoy. Let’s find out.

Civil War review

Civil war is arguably the most controversial of the Marvel events and it covers a lot of political themes. In some ways it’s baffling that this is the kind of story they’re adapting into the newest movie. Especially since secret identities have barely been established as a thing yet (outside of the Netflix's Daredevil which isn’t likely to cross into the movies) but given that the movie is adapting the comic, and that there’s supposedly a sequel coming out (because lord knows the idea of a mass brawl between heroes hasn’t been run into the ground by Marvel yet) I decided to get a copy.

Because of the very political nature of this book, it’s often avoided in detail by reviewers, but… I’m going to cover this in as neutral a way as possible. I will not egg on either side for their decisions, so this review may not be as funny as some of my others, my apologies for that

This is neither a Rage review, nor a Guilty Pleasure review. In as many words my opinion of this comic is that it’s ok. I want to break down the story, giving as much detail as possible. In the end, if you haven’t read Civil War, you can make up your own mind which side was right in their actions.

There's also not going to be an overall rating of the comic, I have certain preconceptions that mean it's difficult for me to judge, and since most of my knowledge of Marvel comics does not predate this event, I don't think I'm much qualified to have a final say. What I do know is as of this point Thor was dead and Planet Hulk was happening, so those 2, arguably the two most powerful participants were off the table.

Note: I am only recently a Marvel fan, there will be characters in this that I do not know, so apologies in advance if I get some of their names wrong.

Also, just in case I wasn’t clear: SPOILERS!