Daredevil Volume 2 by Mark Waid

For my rundown of Volume 1, click here.

Daredevil Volume 2 is a collection of Daredevil #11-21 and Avenging Spider-Man #6, and Punisher #10.

We start with Daredevil teaming up with Spider-Man and the Punisher in a scheme to get back the Omegadrive, and then take down all the megacrime organizations who were after the information. The Punisher has a new female sidekick with a similar loss-of-family origin, and she betrays the group by shooting Daredevil and stealing the drive herself. But they turn out to be rubber bullets and she is convinced to rejoin the cause for the greater good. It was interesting to see Daredevil's reluctant interactions with the Punisher, since it was announced that Jon Bernthal will play Frank Castle in the second season of Marvel's Daredevil.

Later, Daredevil finds himself kidnapped and put in a cramped glass cell in Doctor Doom's headquarters in Latveria as revenge for depriving the villain of the Omegadrive. Doom doses him with a nano-bot-infused gas that takes away all of Daredevil's senses one by one, and it takes Hank Pym shrinking down for some up close brain surgery to rid Murdock of the machinery.

Matt's friends and colleagues Foggy Nelson and Kirsten McDuffie begin to distrust his sanity and soon enough Daredevil is doubting himself as well. Foggy finds the remains of Jack Murdock in Matt's desk drawer, and Matt denies any involvement, leading to a split between the law partners. This turns out to be part of a supervillian plot, but even after Foggy starts to believe in his friend, Kirsten decides to have Spider-Man keep an eye on him, which is where readers are left hanging.

Stay tuned to this blog for my description of Volume 3, true believers!