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It’s not a particularly original idea to see how a hero can be corrupted in trying to achieve his aims; how compromised he can end up but it’s a powerful one in the hands of a skilled writer. Unfortunately the tedious literalism of Daredevil becoming a devil tells you that Diggle’s not the man to bring out that power. This reads like an interesting central storyline robbed of its power by being blown up as a crossover event story, so perhaps it’s the current comics business model at fault rather than Diggle himself. Tan’s art is suitably ugly to mirror the corruption of the lead, but that just alienated me from this story further. This is what happens when you learn all the wrong lessons from Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. ( )