Daredevil man without fear frank miller5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Typhoid Mary is there if you know where to look for her. ![]() You get Stick, Elektra, the Fixer, and the Kingpin, of course. It's mostly a great character study, low on the superheroics and stronger on the training, the action, and characters. It is a wonderful exploration of Matt Murdock's character, of how his days being bullied on the school yard lead to his time in law school lead to his return to the city and, on the very last page, his first appearance in costume. But before that, each issue feels like it stands on its own, though they blend together well, overall, to tell what is basically "Daredevil: Year Zero." It's Miller going back to his classic run on the character and retelling Daredevil's origin story, with lots of tips of the hat to his own work and style on the series. That really shows in the last couple of issues, where desperate scrambles for page fillers result in a couple of odd essays from Miller and Romita. ![]() The series had started out as an original graphic novel before being split into a five issue miniseries. While my memory for some of the details of that run are a little sketchy now, I still recognized moments and people he was writing to help set up the material in his stories from a decade earlier. This is the first time I've read the book since reading Miller's classic "Daredevil" run. ![]()
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