In the wake of one of the most visceral DAREDEVIL, nay, MARVEL stories EVER, the Marvel Universe's New York City stands remade and reforged - if not in Wilson Fisk's image, then at the very least in his spirit! After a battle that nearly tore the city and its citizens apart, New York's super heroes have no choice but to try to adapt to the new and dangerous paradigm they find themselves operating under - with eight million people turned against them!
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Devil's Reign: Omega #1 does a great job telling a concise story while providing exposition for future Marvel storylines. Read Full Review
Devil's Reign: Omega #1 isn't just an omega; it is also an alpha! A fantastic wrap-up to the Devil's Reign event showcases deep character emotion and entices you to the next adventures for the characters. Even though Fisk's fall has happened, there is a lot to unpack and rebuild, making for a good story about future issues. If you're a fan of Luke Cage, you won't want to miss this issue as he steals the show! Read Full Review
Devils Reign: Omega #1 is a brilliant closing issue. This is partly due to the fact that the creators understand how to transition between the stories. It adequately closes out the big event, allowing the pivotal moments to be wound down with poignant writing yet with a slight twist in the tale. This is not interrupted and is really well orchestrated. But then there is this reset and an escalation of excitement for Cages tenure as mayor. For the amazing journey that this character has been through, to finally end at such a high point, it deserves this spotlight. Read Full Review
Like Devil's Reign itself, this "Omega issue does a fantastic job of just being entertaining while also being a sly reflection of our reality. At the core throughout the issue is a new elected official being left a mess of an office that he has to fix after it was run by a corrupt individual. Sound familiar? But, beyond that clear parallel, the comic is just entertaining and sets things up nicely for what's to come. If you're interested it's well checking out and a nice coda to the event series. Read Full Review
A fine collection of stories detailing the fallout fromDevil's Reign, and setting up two, possibly three new series. The future looks bright for Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Marvel's other assorted street-level heroes! Read Full Review
The comic's Omega issue sets out to answer many of the loose ends left over by the main storyline and does a pretty adequate job on the front. What's more obvious, however, is that this issue serves much more like a #0 issue than part of the previous tale. Read Full Review
Devil's Reign: Omega #1 strengthened the foundation of the new status quo the ending of Marvel's latest big event created. Luke Cage is made to be the star of show with Chip Zdarsky, Rodney Barnes, and Jim Zub establishing how important he will be as the new Mayor of New York City. While nothing new is learned on the Daredevil side of the story there is enough here to build excitement for Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios new journey. Read Full Review
Cage's war on the Thunderbolts provides of the issue's back-up stories as he calls on the help of Spectrum to attack one of their warehouses. Cage is also prominently featured in the other back-up story as the new Mayor of New York steps in front of the divided city for his press conference. Both lay groundwork for what is to come, much like Daredevil's main tale, but there's nothing here that can't be missed. Read Full Review
It's more of a primer on what's to come. The main Dardevil story was pretty solid. The Thunderbolts story was pretty decent and the Luke Cage stuff I found interesting. I like the idea of him being mayor.
I found the first strip to be a good epilogue to Devil's Reign, distinguished by some nice, deep character work.
The B & C strips, taken together, worry me. I liked the B *a lot* more than the C; the fact that it's the writer of the last one that'll do the upcoming Thunderbolts series gives me pause. That strip is so expository, so tell-don't-show; ugh.
The B strip is pretty fluffy, but it does a much better job of getting me excited for the Thunderbolts. I like the cartoony art; I also like that Monica Rambeau shows the same spiky refusal to suffer fools that she had in ASM #92.BEY.
The other characters are right to point out how F-d up it is that Matt is letting the world think he is dead because he brother is dead. This can't possibly come back to bite him in the ass later, lol!
The backup stories focus on Luke cage and setting up the status quo with the Thunderbolts. Plot-wise, they aren't great, it's mostly informative.
I just don't feel this series anymore. It doesn't help that you make me read thunderbolts nonsense that I couldn't care less about. I'll give the relaunch a try and I hope Zdarsky and Checcetto can capture their previous form.
Zdarsky stuff was great but didn’t care too much for the other stories unfortunately
it was fine to be honest. didnt care too much about the future stories of Luke Cage being mayor
Meh.
DD’s story was great but the rest were just an uninteresting set-ups for stories I’m never going to read.