(Spoiler Alert: Daredevil is Blind)
Although I have the softest of soft spots for all things comics-related, much of it is tied to my teen years when I would visit a store I remember simply being called The thrift Shop in my hometown of Belize City with my mom and sisters whenever we had to buy textbooks for an upcoming term. One time while there, I was roaming around and I saw on the comic rack a copy of Brian Michael Bendis’ and Alex Maleev’s last Daredevil arc, “The Murdock Papers.” After some pleading, I took it home and became engrossed in the story of Matt Murdock having had his Daredevil identity revealed, and fighting to destroy the proof that would ultimately put him behind bars for the beginning of Ed Brubaker’s prison arc. I continued reading Daredevil for some time until the issues started appearing with less frequency at the store while the cost increased and the quality of the stories began to slide into a muddling, depressing narrative that contained a hardly likable Daredevil.
When I heard of Mark Waid’s work on Daredevil, and the shift in tone that occurred in the book, changing from a depressed man facing dire circumstances to an optimist facing circumstances, I wanted to pick up the book and give it another try. Unfortunately, I kept waiting for an ‘in’ that wouldn’t make me feel lost as a result of missing the story that occurred during my time away from the comic (Wikis of any kind only help so much), and the plan soon changed to “We’ll pick up this book in its entirety at some point when Waid is done with it.” And then Marvel started with its most recent trend of restarting their comics with a new number one, and I realized I didn’t have an excuse any longer to hold off from reading it.
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