This is the kind of stuff that makes comic fans a bunch of disgruntled malcontents who can never be happy. 
 I've ranted before about how Marvel has made a hash out of it's volumes and numbering systems making it increasingly difficult for someone working through the trade collections to read stuff in order. I knew that Mark Waid had done a new phase of Daredevil, and it's something I was curious about so when I ran across this collection labeled Volume 1 at the library, I grabbed it and gave it a read. Then I planned to write up yet another one of my witty and insightful reviews telling the fine folks of Goodreads my opinion about it. 
 Of course, it couldn't be that easy because while I got what's listed as Volume 1 with the same cover matching what Goodreads lists as #1, it actually seems to be some kind of omnibus edition that actually includes all the issues through #10 along with an issue of Spider-Man. But the edition here lists it only as covering #1 -6 with Vol. 2 having the # 7 - 10 and the Spider-Man issue. I cannot find any edition on Goodreads that actually covers what was in the book I read. 
 Goddamnit, I just want to read about a blind lawyer who spends his nights acting as a vigilante in red tights beating up criminals. Why does it have to be so complicated? 
 So I'm posting the same review for both Vol. 1 & 2 and calling it a day. I'll also get credit for 2 books on the challenge. That's what you get for not having the correct editions, Goodreads! Rampant cheating of the system! 
 Onto the review: 
 Frank Miller deserves a lot of credit for making comics more mature and darker in content. Frank Miller also deserves a lot of blame for making comics more mature and darker in content. While it was his work on Batman's The Dark Knight Returns that most people point out at as a watershed moment, Miller dished out far more abuse to poor Matt Murdock who he treated like a noir hero who was destined to suffer. Just as countless creators spent years trying to make Batman as grim as possible after DKR and Year One, almost every writer after the Daredevil Born Again storyline seemed to follow the Miller template of destroying Murdock every few years. Even popular runs by Bendis and Brubaker followed the Miller Maxim that Daredevil must be forever picking up the pieces of a shattered life. 
 And that made for some interesting stories but at this point, what else could you do to the poor bastard? Now that there seems to be some interest in rolling back the dark black curtains and letting a little sunshine into comic stories again, it's nice to see Matt Murdock smile. He's decided that he's tired of all the brooding grimness, and he wants to get back to being the swashbuckling hero he started out as. It almost seems like a testament to the power of positive thinking because in the old days if Daredevil tried to break up a hit at a Mafia wedding, he'd probably have ended up covered in the brains of the lucky couple. Now he saves the day and gives the bride a big kiss that ends up on the front page of The Daily Bugle. 
 The only fly in the ointment is that the secret is still out that Matt Murdock is Daredevil and although his legal maneuvering has kept that from being officially acknowledged as fact, it also makes it impossible for him to argue a case in court since any opposing lawyer can simply point out his reputed history as a masked vigilante. But Matt's can-do attitude carries over to a new business plan in which he and his partner Foggy start a new kind of legal business in which they coach people to represent themselves. 
 As a long time Daredevil fan, it made me stupidly happy to see Matt have some fun again. It also tones down the grungy street criminal factor and makes DD seem like a part of the routine Marvel universe again by having him mix it up with super-villains like Mole Man and team-up with Spider-Man as they try to clear Black Cat from a robbery accusation. 
 However, unlike a retcon, Matt's old history lurks out there and sometimes makes his new attitude seem delusional, maybe even dangerous. There are also hints that DD's methods remain shady for a superhero such as when he comes into evidence on the megacrime groups like Hydra and AIM, and instead of turning it over to the Avengers, he hangs onto and plays the factions off each other. 
 This was an interesting way to bring Daredevil out of the shadows but still keep some of the scar tissue he's collected over the years. I'll be reading more of this as long as I can figure out which damn book to get...