Devil's Reign #5

Devil's Reign (Single Issues) #5

by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto (Artist)

As smart and ruthless as Wilson Fisk may be, he’s chosen to enlist the aid of some of the most reprehensible, dangerous and bloodthirsty criminals the Marvel Universe has to offer! He’s been able to keep them on a short leash out of fear for weeks. IN THIS ISSUE — that fear runs out! Fisk’s lackeys aren’t scared of ANYTHING anymore, even him — and ALL OF NEW YORK is left to pay the price!

Genres: Marvel, Comics, Graphic Novels

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2022

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

[Scratch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh.

Still waiting for Agony to do anything significant. It's novel to see her standing around, theoretically participating in all these fight scenes. But she never speaks or does much anything of consequence. I waited for her to do anything of consequence in the 90s, and then she got killed, and then relegated to an awful character limbo with the rest of her symbiont siblings. Now she's back and finally in an ostensible position of prominence, and it's like the writers needn't have ever bothered bringing her back.

One of the main fights in this issue concludes because, my Lord, the Abomination shows up! ... When exactly did we decide that we're all scared of the Abomination? He has never been that big a deal in comics before. He's not that big a deal in the movies, either. His most recent MCU appearance showed him having a minor one-on-one fight in Shang-Chi, with Ronny Chieng in the background. ... He's not that scary. He's just a big scaly guy.

Whatever. This miniseries is enjoyable enough, in a popcorn kind of way.

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

Killgrave got a major boost in his power. Now he has damn near half the city under his control and going after the heroes. Meanwhile Fisk sets his sights on killing Daredevil. That ending tho??? Looks like the perfect story beat to make Fisk not know who Daredevil is again.

[Sid · Rating 4 out of 5]

well, shit.

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Def one of the stronger issues. Great character interactions, cool fights, a brutal ending.

[Deniz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fisk’s only thought being Matt Murdock is so me💁🏻‍♀️

[zach · Rating 4 out of 5]

the best so far in this event

watching Mike die also has been so incredibly liberating to see. Been waiting for this since that weird annual

also the art absolutely popped off here

[Kayley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best issue so far imo

[Raymond Paquette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wrong guy Fisk.

[Jay · Rating 3 out of 5]

This event just isn't doing it for me anymore. It's not bad. It just isn't as fun as Zdarsky's actual DD run. It's DD themed with not much DD.

[Divina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ahhh not Mike, he’s just a little guy ahhh
Jokes aside I hope they don’t kill Mike right here. Since he’s, you know, a Real Guy now there’s so much we can go with him, but to kill him now would be such a waste. Hoping this means Kirsten will be let in on Matt’s little secret once more. That is, if Fisk doesn’t leak his identity. They don’t really have the rapport they did in volume 2, you know? But also he thinks Matt is dead? Even though Mike is… Is it bad I wish it was actually Matt? Not that I want him dead, just to see what happens. Pull an Elektra on him if we really need to.
Zdarsky can’t fake-out 2 deaths in one volume, that’s redundant. We knew Foggy wasn’t going to die, that’s a given, but Mike? I dunno man, guy doesn’t have as big of an audience.
If it wasn’t clear I only care about a quarter of what’s actually happening in this event. Rough.

[Burton Olivier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you Chip for giving us a page where Daredevil gets to finish the avengers assemble call and where Spidey makes a bad Bugs Bunny joke. And this is a great way to use the whole Mike situation.

[David Dalton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not crazy about this series/storyline. I get the whole been there and done that vibe.
Let's end this and get back to Daredevil. Almost over.

[OinkFish Pigs · Rating 4 out of 5]

The end of Michael Murdock😢😢😢

Low 9.2

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

4

[Jack · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is SO good