Why are readers and reviewers making such a big deal of Matt interacting with the Dark Reign status quo? It seems that this has been overstated a great deal. If you replaced Norman Osborn with Kingpin in this storyline, this would be a cliche (and I don’t mean that pejoratively) DD story. He’s a powerful figure in NYC who has ground troops and hired Bullseye to kill people and get DD’s attention. I don’t see Osborn as anything BUT a Kingpin replacement. We don’t see Avengers stuff. We don’t have super-villains. We just have Bullseye, a would-be mastermind, and some expendable grunts. This is a DD story; it’s not a Dark Reign story. I’m surprised that readers are reading it as anything but that.

P.S. Why are they living in the sewers? They’ve got a huge office building. It strikes me as just as likely that the cops will break into their office building as their sewer hideout. The sewers can’t be THAT SECRET and Matt seems ok with building a huge complex to (in part) house prisoners anyway.