By far the worst of the early 90s' many attempts to replicate the success of the Death of Superman, this story has six million moving parts and not a one of them is interesting. And in the end, the rebirth of Daredevil's secret identity happens as a result of a minor subplot wholly unrelated to the main plot and the decision to abandon his life as Matt Murdock (which Chichester had mostly been ignoring for the previous two years) happens in just a few pages with no particular drama or occasion beyond a clumsy, fanfic-y return to a Born Again plot — hardly a comparison it seems wise to invite.

The ostensible purpose of this arc feels so perfunctory and grafted on that I assume Marvel's legendary mid-90's editorial chaos was involved, but the truth is the rest of the story is just a lot of people shouting at one another about a macguffin for six issues, so it's easy to see where an editor would want something more interesting for the 325th issue in the era where foil covers came every 25 issues.

On the upside, McDaniel's art throughout this was really quite stunning. A great comic to look at, even when it's a chore to read. more