If you’re interested in Daredevil, but haven’t seen the show, I would recommend this trade. I was invested in what happened to her and just seeing her captor defeated didn’t wasn’t enough to complete her story satisfactorily. I assume she got home safe since Matt beat the man holding her hostage, but we don’t see Matt returning her home. We don’t find out what happens to Mickey despite her bond with Matt and the time spent to develop her character. The chase to rescue her kept me on the edge of my seat and invested in the story. The crime lord’s croonies kidnap Mickey, a girl Matt has befriended. This is where his conflict with The Kingpin, begins.

I no longer felt like I was reading a rehash of the Netflix show. Once Matt graduates from law school (top of his class, of course) and returns to Hell’s Kitchen, the story picks up. She’s a Manic Pixie Murder Girl! I’m certain that she’ll be in the show and if you want to get a more detailed peak at the character, this is the trade to pick up. She brings light and rare moments of happiness (and sex) to Matt’s life despite her drive to kill. She’s wild, clever and can match Matt in a fight. Matt takes Spanish to meet “that hot Greek girl.”In the comic, that girl is Elektra. But I like to see the happier moments and what the hero is fighting for.Īn important character in the comic gets a brief mention in the show’s first season. The style has merit, the tone is consistent throughout the comic and the tension stays high. Frank Miller’s style doesn’t lend itself to moments that illustrate love or friendship and instead focuses on rough patches and struggle. There’s not a lot of warmth between Matt and his father or Matt and his best friend, Foggy Nelson. The comic provides a compelling origin story, but it lacks the heart of the television show. Even though I know the comic came first, I felt like I read an inferior version of a story I already knew. The adaptation stays faithful and even improves upon the source material. The tv show follows the origin story penned by Miller. It tells the story of Matt Murdock and how he went from a bullied kid growing up in Hell’s Kitchen to the superhero Daredevil. Now that embarrassing factoid is out of the way, onto the review.ĭaredevil: The Man Without Fear collects the first five issues of Frank Miller’s run on the comic. Come on, a guy named Daredevil protecting a place called Hell’s Kitchen? That’s just too easy. For an embarrassingly long while, I thought Marvel had made up Hell’s Kitchen.

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