Daredevil: Back in Black Volume 8: The Death of Daredevil written by Charles Soule and art by Phil Noto
Daredevil is back on the anti-mayoral crusade, trying to take down Wilson Fiske who is New York City's mayor. He has an added complication--one of his super-powered friends accidentally created Mike Murdock, Matt's fictional twin brother that he used long ago to deflect attention from himself. Mike has a weird combination of motivations that creates a lot of drama for Daredevil and the few allies he has in his legal fight against Kingpin.
The story has a lot of out-of-left-field elements, including the ending which only sort-of delivers on the title. A new villain is introduced whose identity turns out to be really weird. I found a lot of the elements of the story unsatisfactory. Oh well, this is the end of Charles Soule's run on Daredevil. Overall, there's been more good than bad in the series and the Disney reboot is using an earlier villain that Soule created, so this narrative has left its mark in a good way.
Mildly recommended--it wraps up the series.
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