Daredevil & Echo #4

Daredevil & Echo

by Taboo

THE SINS OF THE PAST ARE ALIVE - AND ANGRY! DAREDEVIL and ECHO face not only the nefarious DEMAGOBLIN, but a bigger, wilder and much, much, MUCH older enemy - one that has had its hooks in Hell's Kitchen for generations… This dark night of the soul will ask - will DEMAND - what our heroes are willing to give to stop all-consuming evil! Don't miss this issue as our saga comes to a blazing conclusion!

Genres: Marvel, Comics

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2023

About the author

Jaime Luis Gómez, better known by his stage name Taboo, is an American rapper and actor best known as a member of the hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas.

Reviews

[Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ · Rating 1 out of 5]

I lost it when Ghostrider showed up

[Colleen Villasenor · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked that there was a connection to some of the ancestors of Matt and Maya. I like these characters and enjoyed this story arc. I liked that the story was resolved, but as one of the children sat in class once again, a subject of bullying, his eyes showed that he was not the same as before his encounter with Demagoblin, leaving the reader to speculate what could come next. One of the parts I liked most in this book, however, had nothing to do with the story. It had a really nice tribute to John Romita, Sr. who died in June of this year. He had spent decades working for Marvel and helping to shape some of it's most iconic characters. His influence will continue for many years to come.

[Aspen Golden · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm going to be perfectly real with you, this miniseries is mediocre at best. The ancestors thing is pretty trite, as was the poem's first letters of each line spelling out ~Blind Faith~ (in one of the most unreadable fonts in the worst possible color, by the way). Despite giving Echo equal billing, this was wholely a Daredevil title with Echo as a sidekick--evidenced by the fact that all of the narration was done by Matt, we only followed Matt when they split up, and it had nothing to say about Echo's current status within the greater Marvel universe. So, there's that. I also really don't like the current editorial decisions regarding Daredevil (yes, he's Catholic, no he's never been particularly religious in the comics up until extremely recently, and then beyond that, nobody seems to know how to write a religious character where said religion has not ovwrtaken the entirety of their personality), but I can't blame this series in particular for that and I tried not to hold it against it.

Issue 3 didn't have an entry on Goodreads, but I felt similarly about it. Matt letting Maya sacrifice him with minimal complaint is probably the sexiest thing he's ever done though, ngl.

[Braden · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first issue in this miniseries was very promising with a very cool set up. The rest of the series however didn’t follow suit. I don’t know if the author just didn’t have enough time/page space to fully flesh out the story they wanted to or if it was as half baked as the final product ended up being. It seems to be the former rather than the later.

There was a pretty clear idea they were going for with the cult and the god introduced but it kind of just ended up jumping from one thing to another without any real explanation.

Also not sure what ghost rider appearing added to the story but you know what hell yeah

2.5/5

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just hope we get more Daredevil and Echo team ups in the future

[V. Arrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Combined review of #3 and #4, because yet again for some reason #3 isn't on GR.

Wow! I'm not normally a Daredevil gal, but I really enjoyed this series. The grounding in the past of Hell's Kitchen made it feel really "of its place" despite the supernatural elements that normally pull me out of a story -- namely demons, which I just generally think are dumb. I loved this version of Echo, too, and I always love Phil Noto's art.

Update for #4: Wow... That ending was... Weird. Not bad. Just... A lot.