A Dark Day indeed when I went into that Comic Book Store, I don't remember the Date nor the week even, but I do remember that horrid feeling. This was Bendis's Last Issue, and the last Marvel Knights Book, and even darker, my Favorite Character in Marvel Comics was going to Jail. This was DareDevil Issue number 81: The Murdock Papers. This was Sad, and yet at the time, I would never know that the "Jag-Off" to replace Bendis would do something so great, tell a story so wild and crazy and fun and awe inspiring, and do so with a plot at the time seen as the ruining, the wreakening of DareDevil. Yes people actually thought that the Movie was better than what was to come.

In the Issue Fisk(Otherwise known as the Kingpin) frings the FBI proof that Matt Murdock is DareDevil for a clean slate. Matt turns to his friend Foggy Nelson (A Fellow Lawyer) to help him out with this, they fail and Matt goes to Ryker's Island Prison, but now without the FBI pulling a Fast one and sending Fisk with him. Then Bendis pulls what could otherwise be explained as a Busiek Aquaman move and wipes his hands clean of it and leaves it in the lap of Ed Brubaker.

This is the Patrick Throughton Moment(The Second Doctor, whom without him or someone with his acting class would have ment the end of Doctor Who), if Brubaker didn't win an Eisner(Which he did) this book would've ended. But no, Ed wrote the most amasing Arc I've ever read in a DareDevil Book. But do something so heartbreaking, and so sad in the process, that I nearly Dropped the Book and went to protest, and now when I look back I still think of that slight joy and excitment I felt when I first read it, but without the worry and heartbreak.

Yes, indeed the heartbreak is the death of favorite and beloved attorney Foggy Nelson. Being a fan of Daredevil since I was 6, this felt real, this felt like anyone could go at any moment. I knew that they were serious with this, people would die, and people will suffer and cry. This was something that no one wanted and everyone knew was comming. This was the bullet at 2 miles an hour.

(Side Note: It feels so long ago, with the Civil War Tag at the top. Only Three Years.)
Now I don't want to ruin the story for you, infact I want you to buy this and read it and enjoy it as much as I have because this Arc is the must have of Marvel's Fearless hero.
Devil in Cell Block D For me was the beginning of a new Great Era of DareDevil. Of Course I would be wrong. After Issue 90 it became something that made me envy not reading a bad X-men Spin Off. But hey Brubaker proved his worth to me, and showed me how a DareDevil Story is written.

DareDevil-Devil in Cell Block D(Issues 81-88)
Overall Score:
Story: *****/*****
Art: ****/*****
Overall: *****/*****
Rating: BUY