Hit by a truck and told he’ll never walk again, Matt Murdock resolves to hang up the mask and tights for good – Daredevil is DEAD! What’re you rolling your eyes for? You don’t believe Matt Murdock will remain a cripple – that this is how his story ends? That Marvel would decide to get rid of one of their biggest characters so anticlimactically? Come onnnnnn, it’s f’reals, dawg! It’s… yeah it’s bullshit.
And bullshit is how it reads - man alive is this book a yawner! Matt convalesces while a series of people from his life file through monologuing grimly and a skeleton wearing his yellow Daredevil outfit (“Fear”) taunts him. Yup, there’s no story, just five issues reminding you that Daredevil’s had a lot of girlfriends who’ve deaded, and he’s fought the likes of Kingpin on the reg, hence why his body is in such a bad state even prior to the truck-hitting. Snore bore reading.
That said, it’s kinda inspiring seeing Matt predictably pick himself back up (“What is pain for? Pain keeps us going”), even though we’ve all seen that scene from the movie where the defeated hero pushes himself through physio back to full health. I liked Iban Coello’s art in issue three and Danilo S Beyruth’s pastiche of The Last Supper with Daredevil’s rogues was cute.
Still, I don’t know who’d find a rehash of over-familiar Daredevil themes interesting and I found Book Without Interest: The Death of Daredevil deathly dull.
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