Is it time for Matt to finally walk away from the vigilante life?Ĭhip Zdarsky’s first Daredevil book isn’t as impressive as I’d heard.
Which leads to Matt making a mistake he can’t take back: in stopping a robbery by three guys, he accidentally causes fatal head trauma to one of the robbers. Still recovering from injuries, Matt Murdock’s not in the best shape, but Daredevil needs to be seen patrolling Hell’s Kitchen so he pushes through the pain and forces himself out. If it keeps going like that, it may easily become one of the defining runs for the character on the same level with Bendis and Brubaker. It's a welcome return to status quo, even if it borrows a bit too much from the TV show to my liking (yeah, I've fallen out of love with Marvel's mediocre Netflix efforts quite early in the game). So yeah, this isn't the chirpy and cheery spiritual successor to the Waid/Samnee run that I was hoping for, but at least Chip seems to really understand the core mechanics of Daredevil and writes a very classic-feeling DD story the likes of which we haven't seen in a while. It's just a very solid Daredevil run that acts as a palette cleanser after the disaster that was Charles Soule, and continues the good old tradition of Matt being an absolutely miserable sack of pain and sadness.
Which is weird to admit, because his early writing efforts were middling at best, but between this Daredevil run and the still ongoing but absolutely amazing Spider-Man: Life Story it's really a shock how much he's grown as a writer over the years. Some of my friends who have been calling this run a spiritual successor to the Netflix show are starting to make sense to me now…Ĭhip Zdarsky is slowly but surely becoming Marvel's low-key best writer right now. This is the single best possible creative team that could be working on Daredevil right now, and I can’t wait to see how this run builds up to Devil’s Reign. Recommended for anyone who likes Daredevil or this creative team. Checchetto’s action scenes are also some of my favorite from any artist working at Marvel right now, and every single scene with Daredevil just moving around looks so fucking incredible. Zdarsky’s Matt is complex as fuck and proves Chip can write dramas just as well as comedies, while Checchetto’s art brings out so much humanity and believability to Matt and his struggles. Builds off the events of Charles Soule’s DD run & Jed Mackay’s Man Without Fear miniseries perfectly, while also doing it’s own thing with the character. But after his first night back goes horribly wrong, Matt may have to face the reality that Daredevil may have been better off dead…Ī solid start to Chip Zdarsky’s and Marco Checchetto’s time on Daredevil. Matt Murdock is back to being Daredevil after a near death experience left him in the hospital and physical therapy for months.
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