Storytelling starts going downhill around Vol. 8-9, maybe earlier. I think I enjoyed the first five volumes. I'm not picking up volume 10 when it comes out. Personally I think after the first 50 or so issues of Daredevil, you can pretty much jump to right around the time (or a little before) Miller comes on board. There was a lot of bad Daredevil by that time and the title was almost shut down. In fact, before Miller, it was being published every other month, rather than monthly.