Daredevil: Without Fear (issues #100-105)

[ratcreature]

Well, at least Milla isn't dead, so that is something, but really the girlfriend storyline is kind of overdone with Daredevil.

I freely admit that part of why I like Daredevil is that its genre, besides superhero crime fighting, is more often than not what would be called "whump" in fanfic parlance: He just gets hurt over and over again, both physically and psychologically, and there is plenty of angst and so on. So I'm not really objecting that he seems to never get a break, but did it have to be by hurting his wife again and taking her out of the picture? Out of sight in a mental hospital with violent delusions is not really what I wished for Milla. I like her character.

Also a central key to the plot, that Matt apparently could work through this gas in a few hours, but for everyone else the effects are apparently forever, well, that didn't make a lot of sense to me. My best guess is that we are to assume that somehow his immunity is tied to his senses making him more resistant because he's more aware, iirc it was something like that with Lily Lucca's body chemistry, but still. I didn't find that very satisfying.

Cranston worked well as a really creepy villain for me though. Even though his prison guard date rape setup at the end sort of squicked me.

Comments

[ofcatsandwomen.livejournal.com]

I would like that too (re: the blindness), and I'm sure it could be done well, that is not as a major plot point, but as something incidental that is sprinkled throughout the book in places where it's relevant. For me it's always been kind of a logical fallacy on the parts of (most) writers to always pretend as if his other senses fully compensate when good ol' common sense tells us that this simply cannot be (although there are many fans who scoff at the idea that Matt is in any way disabled...). I fully acknowledge that his radar sense makes him less than totally blind, but the idea that a complete lack of color vision, for instance, would not effectively be a pretty severe visual impairment is really strange to me. On the other hand, I really like how Brubaker deals with this issue. Well, he doesn't actually deal with it in any obvious way, but he's not in complete denial like some writers have been.