Devil's Reign Omnibus

by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto (Illustrator)

Wilson Fisk has risen from the Kingpin of Crime to mayor of New York City. And now he brings his full criminal and political powers to bear on the super heroes who call NYC home! The man who once destroyed Daredevil targets the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and more! And with the legal clout of the mayor's office behind him, the heroes will have a much harder time fighting back than they expect! To make matters worse, Fisk has an army of super villains at his command. But he isn't the only one with dark ambitions - and you know what they say about honor among thieves… Collecting DEVIL'S REIGN #1-6, SPIDER-WOMAN (2020) #18-19, WOMAN WITHOUT FEAR #1-3, DEVIL'S SUPERIOR FOUR #1-3, DEVIL'S VILLAINS FOR HIRE #1-3, DEVIL'S WINTER SOLDIER, DEVIL'S X-MEN #1-3, DEVIL'S SPIDER-MAN, MOON KNIGHT (2021) #8, DEVIL'S MOON KNIGHT and DEVIL'S OMEGA.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

680 pages, Hardcover

Published January 9, 2024

About the author

Chip Zdarsky is a Canadian comic book artist and journalist. He was born Steve Murray but is known by his fan base as Chip Zdarsky, and occasionally Todd Diamond. He writes and illustrates an advice column called Extremely Bad Advice for the Canadian national newspaper National Post's The Ampersand, their pop culture section's online edition. He is also the creator of Prison Funnies and Monster Cops.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although I had not been following the Marvel 'street hero' books other than the Spiders, I picked up this Daredevil-centric Marvel event as it crossed over into a few of my monthly picks; so I went into this quite blind. Mayor(!) Fisk has finally grasped that Daredevil somehow retrieved his biggest secret from him; this action really anger Fisk and he goes all-out using his mayoral office, his Thunderbolts and Doc Ock's brain to wage war on the NYC resident heroes from Daredevil, Cage and the Spiders through to the likes of Cap., Iron-Man, the Champions and the FF!

This is quote an interesting event, and some of the art is superb. Overall a very good read and quote an important one in Marvel lore. Alongside the main event series the Daredevil: Woman Without Fear and Devil's Reign: X-Men are the best reads. The worlds of Luke Cage, Jennifer Jones, Elektra, Daredevil and Kingpin are about to be changed forever!

2024 read

[Logan · Rating 5 out of 5]

9/10:
This is truly one of the largest stories I’ve ever dove into within the Marvel Comics universe, and I’m so glad that I did. There is a constant and clear focus on Wilson Fisk as the villain of this entire story, utilizing other super-villains as his pawns. It’s also abundantly clear that both Daredevils (Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios) are the main focus on the hero-side of this entire event, but there are also lots of other important characters including Luke Cage, Emma Frost, and Reed Richards.

The only portions of this event that I wasn’t the biggest fan of were those spent with Doctor Octopus and his Variants from across the multiverse in Devil’s Reign: The Superior Four (2022) #1-3. It just didn’t add much to the story outside of showcasing conflict between Doc Ock and former Kingpin Wilson Fisk.

[Connor · Rating 3 out of 5]

A friend loaned me all the individual issues for this Marvel event. It was an interesting experience reading like that; mostly I read collected editions. I think the main story mostly flows through the Daredevil series. I happened to read Fantastic Four Dark Reign at the same time, and I noticed some similarities between both "reigns".

[TheMadReader · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a very lackluster event to begin with. So to have an entire omnibus released in order to compile different pov’s from other Marvel characters was a real waste of time.

Some folks live for events, I don’t mind them…if they’re actually good. However, this wasn’t.

[Néstor Vargas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had been waiting a long time to finally read, not disappointed. Checchetto is one of the best out there. Zdarsky maintains his quality from the Daredevil run. Kingpin may be the best street-level villain of all Marvel, and taking him just a small notch higher to a 'super' villain was an interesting adventure. His development makes sense since Secret Empire, and the pseudo-registration act, although we have seen it, take a different approach to make it interesting enough. Nice status quo changes, especially for Luke Cage. I'm intrigued by the next Daredevil series after this. The cast is amazing, Elektra and Daredevil are a treat to see. It was fun, coherent, natural, and overall a fantastic event.

Now for the tie-ins: Superior Four was so hard to enjoy. I appreciate respecting Otto's development since Superior Spider-Man but the 'superior' motif has become so exhausting, it's all about superior this, superior that, and who is more superior than my superiority. The multiverse stuff was okay but I liked more his participation inside the main story and not this tie-in stuff.

Woman Without Fear was fantastic. Latorre is amazing, the story is short but effective, makes sense that it is the most connected to the main event but the execution made it even better. Not much to say when everything was so good.

X-Men was a very pleasant surprise, I did not know Noto's art, it is very good. Although it's not that connected to the Devil's Reign part, the story is interesting enough to stand on its own. That scene between Emma Frost and Spidey meant the world to me.

For the remaining ones. Villains for hire, art was difficult for me, the story with U.S Agent started interesting but led to nothing. We could've avoided this with no problem. Spider-woman, good art but the story had little to do with the main event. Moon Knight was fun, but the one in the main series also had very little to do with everything else. Spider-Man just kept going the Rose story but I don't care much about him. Winter Soldier was dark and interesting.

[StephY · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't know, maybe I was expecting something a a bit different. It follows up directly from the pages of Daredevil Vol. 6 and the main event feels like a natural follow-up to it, but most of the tie-ins didn't do much for me. They never felt like stories that built of one another into a larger narrative and expanded upon concepts present in the 6 main issues. Instead most of them just feel like "character happens to be doing this that is somewhat connected to the main story". Octavius goes on a multi-versal adventure, Elektra is fighting Kraven, Moon Knight becomes a boxer, Emma Frost ties up some loose ends, Bucky is there (kinda), Jess Drew's story feels quite forced into the tie-in.

I've honestly would've preferred an Avengers tie-in, or something more focused on Luke Cage (and maybe even Tony), a more connected Fantastic Four story, I was surprised to see that Peter plays a role in Zdarsky's run yet here the tie-in was given to Ben Reilly.

All in all, feels a bit all over the place. I think just staying with the main event and the Elektra tie-ins (what's presented in the Vol. 2 omnibus), is the better choice.

[Dann LaGratta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Super uneven. The best sections in the book are Zdarsky’s, which were already collected in his second Daredevil Omnibus. As with a lot of major crossover events, most of these stories are from other books and just kind of fill in the smallest bit of background in case you were wondering what Moon Knight was up to. Some of the stories are kinda fun, some are just filler, and the Spider-Woman story has some really bad writing. The Daredevil Omnibus did a great job of telling enough of the story that this omnibus just feels unnecessary with the $100 price tag. I can really only recommend it for completionist collectors.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

4⭐. This was a fun addition to Zdarsky's DD run, fun to see tons of characters on the run from Fisk's anti-vigilante laws. Gets pretty comic booky which I enjoy. Some of my first introductions to reading certain characters. My least favorite was probably Jessica Drew's run, which had a strong "women illustrated by men" vibe. My favorite was the Emma Frost's storyline- it made me want to read previous issues concentrating on her relationship with the X-men.

[Brighty]

3.5
Daredevil stuff. Great. The rest. Varying quality.

[Jacob Gilchrist · Rating 4 out of 5]

If the new daredevil show is anything like this I will squeal…

[Dan Findlay-Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed that, pace was good and it brought this run of Daredevil to life for me.

If you enjoy events pick it up

[Jacob Baker · Rating 4 out of 5]

some of the tie-ins are really lackluster but the main book is solid