Daredevil (Comic)

I remember 1986 I was 14 when I first picked up Daredevil, it was amidst Frank Miller's iconic (1983) run as writer for Daredevil. What an impression it left. He tore into the super hero concept of the flawed character (a blind superhero) like Daredevil, rewired with distress to reemerge the Daredevil character with new strengths. Miller's Daredevil had everything in it, drug taking, violence and a rawness that was never really topped. It was a class act.

In later years other writers came and went, some brought there own style and flare to the comic and passed on some great ideas to the Daredevil character.

Although I haven't been following the comic for years I did look at writers Brian Bendis and more recently Bru Brubaker runs, which I found weak, wimpy and depressing. The art static, boring and complacent.

All and all Bendis and Brubaker's Daredevil lacked any real lasting quality. Both their runs simply put were a depressed and crappy mess. Anyway Bendis is gone and Brubaker is finishing up (with issue #500). Let's hope they (Marvel) bring back some of the muscle, interest and dynamics that Miller set down 26 years ago.

Below is the new proposed art for the next run, new writer Andy Diggle