Mark Waid

Daredevil by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee Omnibus Vol. 2 takes Matt Murdock to San Francisco without losing the run's central trick: brightness on the surface, pain underneath. Samnee's storytelling becomes cleaner and more playful while Waid keeps pushing Matt toward honesty about trauma. It is the graceful end of a rare optimistic Daredevil era.

Mark Waid reinvents Daredevil by doing the opposite of everything that came before: instead of darkness and suffering, he writes Matt Murdock with genuine joy, humour, and resilience. The insight is simple and brilliant — a man who has survived everything Daredevil has survived would either break entirely or find a way to laugh. Paolo Rivera and Chris Samnee create a unique visual aesthetic that won the Eisner Award for Best Continuing Series. 720 pages of Daredevil at his most purely enjoyable.