What works best about this volume is when we delve into Murdock’s past and this is when issues #6 and #7 come in.
Occasionally this strong lean to the fantastic does drift away from the intimate character drama which is what’s been great about the character for many years. Not to say The Kitchen is a comfort zone for Daredevil, given for many decades he has been suffering from a life that is forced upon him, so much like Waid’s initial run, Matt is determined to step into the light and have a happy life as both lawyer and vigilante.ĭespite a few moments of wit with Matt/Daredevil trying to get use to the streets of San Francisco, the big move from one big city to another isn’t that well explored as Waid is more interested in the superhero antics as established in the very first issue where DD is rescuing a young girl whilst being pursued by men in gliders. When Matt leaves Hell’s Kitchen and heads west with his professional/romantic partner Kirsten McDuffie, they move to San Francisco with their new law firm, McDuffie & Murdock, whilst Daredevil becomes the city’s new superhero sensation, despite his costumed identity no longer a secret.Īlthough Gerry Conway moved Daredevil to San Francisco for a year in the 70s – pairing up with Black Widow – the idea of taking Daredevil out of New York is almost as sacrilege as taking Batman out of Gotham City. Following the grim nature of runs by Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker, it is self-confessed non-cynic Mark Waid to re-establish Matt Murdock’s world by going back to the roots of the Lee/Everett creation and dials the superhero element up a bit. Since Frank Miller reinvented Stan Lee and Bill Everett’s comic in the early 1980s, Daredevil has been an ongoing crime tale with its eponymous hero being plunged into the Nine Circles of Hell, given his life-long home in Hell’s Kitchen.
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