Shadowland #1

So yeah, I guess we can forget what I said last month about Daredevil not wanting to kill people.

I'm not sure what to make of Shadowland yet. I've been reading DD since the Bendis run, and yeah, on the one hand this seems like a natural climax to the last several years of the series the same way Siege was a natural climax to the last several years of Avengers stories. But again, there's still a weird gulf between DD in last month's #507 and DD in Shadowland. I have trouble buying that he's suddenly that much further down the dark path than he was in Japan. There's a chance, of course, that he's being influenced by some magical Hand whatever now, but that would be way too easy...and kind of a cop-out from having to deal with the more realistic...let's say, grittening of the character that's been going on for a while. Like Tony Stark losing his memories of the entire SHRA period.

And speaking of the dark path, now that Elektra is getting involved in the story, the huge freaking deal that's going to be made over Bullseye's murder just makes that much less sense - she's killed dozens and dozens of people, but that's okay because gosh darn it, she tries to do good, but DD kills freaking Bullseye, after being directly provoked, and he simply must be stopped? And that firm moral judgment is being made by the guys who put Wolverine on multiple Avengers teams at the same time?