written by Charles Soule
drawn by Goran Sudzuka
colored by Matt Milla
Charles Soule and fill-in artist Goran Sudzuka conclude yet another of their fill-in "mini" arcs between story arcs as Matt, who has put a bounty on Daredevil's head to lure his arch-nemesis Bullseye (who is apparently alive and well, despite what happened to him during Mark Waid's and Chris Samnee's run), to take a shot at him, comes to realizations about the will to live. He had thought he had put out the bounty to raise money to help his friend Blindspot, but then realizes that he was actually looking for an easy way out of despair, something he realizes when he has a conversation with the benevolent but burly Father Jordan who, it is revealed, is much more than what he first appears to be.
Soule whets the reader's appetite for what has to be one of the most important story arcs of this new series: the one that explains how this status quo came to be.
It's not much of an arc, and I honestly felt myself a little disappointed after the high I got from reading most of "Dark Art" but it does tie up rather neatly. I found it silly, though, that an arch nemesis like Bullseye gets only a throwaway two-issue arc with next to no dialogue, especially considering that Waid and Samnee invested so much more storytelling in his ongoing blood feud with Matt. I also found the revelation regarding Father Jordan to be a little bit contrived, though if it portends for more stories involving this character I'm willing to keep an open mind.
Sudzuka's art is serviceable at best, though the two-page splash in which depicts Matt as being attacked from all directions by various peeople in his life is a striking visual that serves the story well.
The good news is that the story ends exactly where it should: setting up the next chapter, which promises to be a doozy.
6.5/10
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