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Silver Surfer Annual #13 -
Maybe I read this just because I had just watched the 2025 Fantastic Four movie...
Well, I skimmed it anyway.

Surfer is on Earth to inform the Avengers that Thanos is 'dead'.

He just happens to pass Reed Richards who was tasked by Nick Fury to deal with a situation...
As in a crazed and hungry Lifeform.

The end shows sometimes there is no clear cut 'correct' answer.

Incredible Hulk Annual #16
I don't know what compelled me to read this Annual. Maybe because it seemed like it was going to be a little different.
And it was!

Mercy (a being from another world?) forces Lifeform and Hulk to meet.

Of course there is a fight. And though, I don't think Lifeform’s more aggressive side learned anything, maybe the Hulk did.

I skipped the Punisher and Daredevil Annuals.

They just seemed to be about Lifeform showing up somewhere, the hero arriving, a fight ensues and Lifeform apparently dies.

I did read the Typhoid Mary short.

Which was a little confusing when skimming it but basically, Lifeform has two warring minds and so does she.
He didn't want to kill the innocent Mary even though Typhoid was hurting him.

Issue #282 -
The moral of this story is that humans are free because we know that we are both good and evil. And we can forgive.
That's what I took away from it anyway.

It seemed like one heck of a misdirect when this storyline started out as two Inhumans looking for a missing kid.

This whole era of DD has been weird, confusing and a little dull.

Oh and the scratchy art has NOT been my fav.

Issue #281 -
I skipped a lot of this. It's not even really about Blackheart.
It's about this group of individuals and about good and evil. Or something.

Anyway, Daredevil realises he CAN stop fighting and announces that he's been made stronger.

Also somehow Silver Surfer senses Mephisto is up to something...

Issue #280 -
I skipped a lot of this.

Daredevil and crew see something different in Mephisto's realm.

I really liked the white background in DDs pages. Made the colours look more vibrant.

Issue #279 -
Pope, a child, is treated like a witch when he looks at a goat (that just bit him) and it collapses.
He didn’t mean to hurt the animal.

His adoptive mother says he’s grown so fast and she’s afraid.

That’s when Daredevil and co arrive!

Of course, Pope very well may be Black Bolt's son!

Daredevil can sense something's not right with his companions… right before the ground opens beneath them!

Issue #278 -
Mephisto wants to teach his son Blackheart the ‘high art of evil’.

This looks like creating jealousy between Karnak and Gorgon which causes them to fight!

As well as creating anger within DD and him (unwittingly) beating up an innocent man (he thought he was bashing Backheart).

Once Matt realises what he's doing, the fight between cousins also stop.

Mephisto has planted more seeds…

Skipped 277. Seemed like a filler story.

Issue #276 -
I noticed this last issue too; some jumps between panels make the story feel a little janky.

Anyway, Ultron gets smacked by a tree branch (after it ripped out its own circuits) and shuts down.

Number 9 hopes to hear that 'good voice' again.

Not sure why the Inhumans were there, they weren't exactly helpful.

Also seems like a gross oversight that Doom didn’t check on his creation…

Issue #275 -
An Acts of Vengeance crossover.

Doom wants to mock Kingpin (bit petty but ok) by using Ultron to kill Daredevil...

But instead of checking his programming, he just assumes it's correct and sics the deadly robot onto the hero.

Not that the hero did many heroic things in this issue. Man, he's gotten gloomy.

Anyway, Ultron hates humans but falls in love(?) with Number 9.

Skipped Annual #5.

And issues #271-273(274)… It seems these Daredevil issues are getting weirder and weirder.

I did read a bit of #274. Well, only the Inhuman parts.

Gorgon is determined to find Medusa's child... even if she must stay with her husband (as that's part of her duty?)

Then somehow, Gorgon with Karnak and Lockjaw teleport right in front of Daredevil!