#daredevil 2023

[lina-murdock]

Ahmed's Daredevil run is an odd mix of Pokemon and Yo-kai Watch where he exorcises people and call out bible verses to summon his magical girl outfit

[alwaysribbit]

got around to reading Daredevil vol. 8 and my biggest issues are these (im sure theyve all been said before)

i rambled WAY more than i meant to so. under cut

i do not read daredevil for mystical demon exorcisms, at least not more than once every 50 issues

Matt is NOT this devoted of a catholic

Foggy is BLOND??? and barely in the run

the idea that Matt would ever choose Bullseye's life over Foggy is pretty ludicrous so it's not a particularly thrilling climax

it's also annoying that Foggy gets all sad and angelic about it because its literally BULLSEYE. "i know he was...as bad as they come. but i'm alive because he's dead." besides the basic inaccuracy of this* which i can excuse by it being a typical guilt response, i think this is a weird way to write Foggy, making him seem very weak and somehow more conflicted than literally Matt..everything is, as always, about Matt. not about Foggy's life being saved. I would say it could be a way to show Foggy having to face up to the decisions that a vigilante has to make and the violence of Matt's life, but this would suggest he hadn't experienced it before which is just not true: for example, Foggy was literally manipulated into killing his own girlfriend when Mysterio made her look like an evil monster. he's not naive and I don't understand why the default is to present him as that. also later Matt's internal monologue being all "(Matt's) selfishness that killed Bullseye"???? no?? Matt IS often a selfish character but i don't think saving his best friend's life over his worst enemies is a good example of this? ok this point got longer than i meant it to

the white suit was not for me, but it also felt very pointless when it immediately gets stained red again. the suit changes SO MUCH in this run

the ending with the kids is just really depressing. i don't personally super enjoy miserable stories about Matt messing up the lives of kids in foster care

every new daredevil comic run i read i want more and more for him to go back to pre-synergy Daredevil Unfortunately. i actually think the writing is relatively strong (aside from some weird pacing) but it doesnt feel remotely faithful to DD as a character and a story

i hope in the upcoming run by Phillips and Garbett they at least make Foggy a brunette again???? i am exciting to have a woman writing him however, i can only think of Nocenti having the title for more than an issue or two

as for positives.

I liked Matt being angry and selfish but self aware lmao. and the acknowledgement of his destructive tendencies harming everyone around him. i like Matt being smitten with Elektra. more of that would be great (though I think Elektra should just go by her own name).

also Nyla coming back!! great choice and i love her. she is truly awesome. (although, Matt suddenly being so concerned with the sin of sex outside of marriage is painfully out of character lmao. i guess coming back to life as a priest does that to a guy?).

Matt sensing the mushroom network thing was pretty awesome. interesting stretch of his powers in a way that doesn't necessarily take away from his disability.

Cole North's line about Matt and Foggy's current divorce era:

"You can shut out exes. Cut off friends. But you two are brothers, related or not."

*being that in fact he is alive because Matt saved him, and Bullseye is dead because Wrath dropped him.

[readingtoinfinity]

Daredevil (2019)

I was about to review the 2023 series by Saladin Ahmed, but I realized I didn't have my thoughts down about the 2019 series by Chip Zdarsky. Allow me to lay out some thoughts quickly before I get to the most-recent series.

Matt Murdock is back in action as Daredevil. But he's too eager to get out there, and before he's ready he gets in a fight, uses a bit too much strength, and lays someone out. Someone who dies before they can reach the hospital, and Daredevil has to figure out whether he's being framed, or he actually killed someone.

Chip Zdarsky's run was the first Daredevil run I stuck with from the beginning, reading it month-to-month. It was an astounding series that put a lot of emotional depths on Matt and put him in situations he hadn't really been to before, which is something that applied to just about every member of his cast, new and returning. I didn't know I could get invested in Kingpin's love life, but Typhoid Mary was a wonderful character that I grew to appreciate, even though I'd never read her stuff before.

This carried through Devil's Reign and into the 2022 series, which saw Matt trying to build something new and rehabilitative before it all comes crashing down around him. No spoilers here, but the use of the supernatural is excellent, considering everything else Daredevil plays in for his own series, and I was satisfied and a little confused by the ending. Which leads us to:

Daredevil (2023)

Full spoilers obliquely discussed for the Zdarsky run.

Matt Murdock is back from hell as a priest for a small orphanage, and is trying to put a life together away from the world of law and his old friends. But circumstances conspire to draw him back in, and he'll find the mistakes of yesterday can make the mistakes of today even worse.

I think this run is... fine. I'm more preferential to the supernatural and religious side of Daredevil's character than his disability or his occupation, so to see him have to face off against seven demons that represent the seven deadly sins was quite fun. And watching Matt try to crawl back to his original life while making a wreck of his new one made me sympathize with him, even when he made mistakes that ended up hurting the people around him. And Kingpin, especially, has a really fascinating change of character that makes him all the more dangerous.

But it's also not hard to see this run was just competent. I don't think anything in here hasn't been done better in previous runs, and while I appreciated Saladin representing Catholicism as honestly and earnestly as he can, it felt a little too on-the-nose to blend seamlessly into the rest of the story. And besides Matt and Wilson Fisk, there's not as much depth offered to the other characters; most of them are two-dimensional, good-enough stand-ins to what they could have been.

I don't know if I would recommend this series. I liked it, and I think for some fans of religious horror it's going to scratch an itch they like, at least for a little while. For fans of Daredevil in general, I think if you wanted to read it you wouldn't have a bad time, but there are, sadly, better series that deserve your attention.

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i genuinely need someone to talk to about DareDevil(2023) i am SO curious about what others think about it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! DOES ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO ANALYZE COMICS!!!😩😩

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DareDevil(2023) is FINALLY in a new arc!!! Introductory Rites was SOOO LOOOOONG and tbh i didn’t like it. This new arc i like A LOT more and it’s just been one comic!

disclaimer: how u feel abt the first arc is up to u ofc, this is all just my opinion lol

[nobodys-baby-now]

save me Matt Murdock. Matt Murdock, save me....

[emeraldstorms]

Wednesday Spoilers: Daredevil 2023, 9

I was really into

Elektra and Matt beating up Lester together and Elektra scaring off at least some of the thugs.

I ADORED the Matt/Foggy reunion. At first. Because then…

I mean… really? As much as I love that Foggy is back, they’re gonna leave us with Matt and Foggy at odds A -FUCKING-GAIN? I’s getting old.

While it makes sense for Foggy to be pissed, it’s so unrealistic that he would just let Matt go like that. He’d demand to talk, maybe yell some more at Matt, but let him walk out again? After grieving Matt for months and just now getting him back? That’s dumb.

[baambastic]

A month is just enough time for me to forget about the whole “Seven Deadly Sins” thing happening in the current Daredevil run, so I keep getting to be very concerned when someone shows up and starts acting wildly out of character every time a new issue comes out.