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Editorial Review:
Signed and numbered Graphitti Designs edition, limited to 2500 copies signed by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti. Comes with multi-media CD Rom with a ton of extras that includes 2 hours of Audio Commentary by Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti.
Daredevil Visionaries Reviews:
Need to temper the accolades 
2009-07-22 - Frank Miller was the creative sage behind Dark Knight and the rebirth of comics. That's fact. Although I was not impressed with the drawing style, the totality of his drawing and writing output in that project was perfect.
This is not the case here. The drawing style looks awkward. Many other reviewers have praised the layouts cinematic etc but these were achieved by other terrific illustrators with better drawing techniques. Looks like Miller didn't even write most of these stories. I really didn't enjoy the comic, Elektra was OK, Bullseye was way over the top, Kingpin was drawn too large (at times the size of the Hulk) to be believable.
Hate to go against the tide but I don't see anything here that deserved a 5 star rating.
Graphic SF Reader 
2007-09-03 - The start of Frank Miller as an artist. You can see the beginning of the type of story he is interested in. How the Mauler story comes across could almost have been a tale of The Spirit, for example. Some odd villains, the Black Widow, and as he points out, the nicking of Spider-Man villains, with Doctor Octopus, plus the appearance of that green rampaging Hulk.
Entertaining 
2007-03-31 - This collection contains Frank Miller's very first Daredevil story, but only as an artist. But boy can this man draw. No one does it better than Miller. His heroes and villains almost jump out of the pages, and the way he draws the big city and all it's inhabitants is spot on, and his layouts are among the finest in the industry, period. The stories in this book are not written by Mr. Miller, but the art is worth the price of admission alone.
Frank Miller Only Drew These Ones - He Didn't Write Them 
2007-02-18 - I've got to wonder if the other reviewers are talking about a different book. In Visionaries Volume 2 things take off and start to feel like the Frank Miller we know and love, but with Volume 1 it still feels like the Stan Lee / Chris Claremont comic writing of the previous decade. My advice - skip this one entirely and go straight to Volume 2. Even that's not Dark Knight / Born Again / Sin City caliber, but you do get to watch him grow as a writer.
Miller leads DD down a new path
2005-10-23 - Frank Miller's work for Marvel up to this time was usual fare. But when he started on DD, he developed a greater cinematic style not seen in comics before. If you get this volume and the next two, you'll see Miller take over the writing chores and then the blend of words and layouts really shines. The gritty look that Klaus Jansen gives Miller's art works well. If you actually study the panels, the art is crude at times--look at the proportions of feet and hands to heads, for example; yet the cinematic layouts make it work. Overall, this was a milestone in the history of comics that true fans shouldn't miss.
