Devil’s Reign, written by Chip Zdarsky with art by Marco Checcheto, colours by Marcia Menyz, and lettering by Clayton Cowles is not Zdarsky and Checcheto’s first time in Hell’s Kitchen. This time however, instead of focusing on Daredevil, Zdarsky and Checcheto tell a story about Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin.
After discovering that he no longer knows Daredevil’s secret identity, Fisk outlaws all vigilantism in New York City with the Powers Act, a law that outlaws vigilantism in the city. It’s not a particularly new concept for Marvel, Civil War, which is referenced within Devil’s Reign, had done it previously, albeit on a much larger scale, and in 2020, Outlawed
, the fifth trade paperback of Jed MacKay’s Black Cat run, and the second of the series that began with the relaunched Black Cat #1 in 2021, wraps up the storyline with Black Fox, Felicia’s mentor.
is a comic book event. Is it a good event? Well, answering that question would require me to state definitively whether or not there is such a thing as a good event. Now, I am perhaps the least qualified person to do that, so let’s just call it what it is and say that it’s an event. It has ups, it has a few downs, but all in all, it is definitely a comic book event.
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story lines of the 1970s, as well as 2019’s 
. At the same time as Empyre continues these three story lines, it also continues Hulking’s story dating all the way back to Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung’s 
(2005). Empyre isn’t just a conclusion, however: it’s also both a status quo change and the beginning of a new story.