Through innovative panels showing figures made up of a particular sound to illustrate how Matt “sees” them or through a kind of pop-art version of a street scene where words representing a sound or smell replace objects, they provide the reader with a unique and clever perspective on Daredevil. The only fly in the ointment is that the secret is still out that Matt Murdock is Daredevil and although his legal maneuvering has kept that from being officially acknowledged as fact, it also makes it impossible for him to argue a case in court since any opposing lawyer can simply point out his reputed history as a masked vigilante. I also appreciate him as a lawyer (which is not something that is said about lawyers very often, if at all). For new readers, I feel like some of this would be incomprehensible because of the layers of past relationships and previous events, but I do think with comics you just have to leap in and be confused at some point. But due to outing himself as Daredevil, Matt is finding it more difficult to hide his secret identity as everyone at his law firm are starting to take advantage of this secret and making Matt give up various cases due to the court not supporting his secret identity as “Daredevil.

Using his radar sense, Matt can detect that Bruiser's body can't handle the changes to his body made by the power, so he concentrates on one shattering bone and hits it, escaping from Bruiser. Matt has trouble when confronted with the Purple Children, the children of the Purple Man, who stir up his depression again, but manages to work on it with Kirsten's help. Waid emphasises that Matt Murdock is blind, and the artists conceived interesting visual ways to display how he perceives the world, using outlines or red on black, and he also sidelines Murdock’s civilian career as a lawyer in an inventive fashion. He is best known for his work on various DC Comics titles, most notably the Superman-related titles and THE POWER OF SHAZAM!It wasn’t a bad plot, but it didn’t feel particularly new and fresh and startling; it definitely felt like just a primer on Daredevil and what he can do. Daredevil is a great character, but has often been presented as too grim since the Frank Miller era.

They had to be careful, they didn't want to lose those tendencies that made the character compelling in the first place. While I did read both Miller and Smith’s run on Daredevil, I missed out on both Brubaker (one of my favorites) and Bendis. This is a refreshing take on the character especially as dark and gritty is really something that’s run its course in superhero comics and is generally something I’m sick of reading about. Some of the art is really great, though: the way they represent Daredevil’s senses, the way they bring across the insouciance of the character, etc.and that same old "grinnin' in the face of hell" attitude, the Man Without Fear is back in action and leading with his face! Even popular runs by Bendis and Brubaker followed the Miller Maxim that Daredevil must be forever picking up the pieces of a shattered life. Not the most well known characters but done so well, making this in multiple ways a very refreshing take on the devil from Hell's Kitchen.