The Big Catch-UP
This one shot may slow you down and scratch your head. Maybe its Emma Rios' art or Zeb Wells' framing of the story but the flashbacks and telling whats going on presently as you read this issue became a job for me on my first initial read and impression of this Shadowland tie in. I had to read this issue twice before i felt like it fit in SHADOWLAND and go over DareDevil Shadowland issues to figure out where aach scene belongs chronologically. Now I get it ! This issue comes after DareDevil #509. Elektra reminisces how she came to helping Master Izo and being involved with helping Matt Murdock / DareDevil who is now in charge of the Hand. In this issue DareDevil realizes Elektras in town and sends the Hand to kill her around the same time he's dealing death to Bullseye. It also explains where Master izo's been. He's been recruiting Elektra. So at first this issue may be confusing since Diggle didn't write it. in that lies the problem. Wells writing works well in the one shot but It's continuity doesn't match Diggle's and where it's been sandwiched in this series . But if given the chance of being reread a couple of times it does work because what it really is is one big catchup issue.