by Antony Johnston and Wellington Alves
★★★★
Finished on: 04.06.2026
Daredevil: Season One
Overall, it’s not bad. I haven’t read many Daredevil comics, but this one does a pretty good job of introducing the character and the main cast. There are even four panels at the beginning, written in a similar way to All-Star Superman, which is commendable
However, the main storyline has some logical issues. It’s nice that they didn’t dredge up the Kingpin and made a completely disposable politician the main problem. The super villains here are simply villains of the week, and it was strange to see Matt deal with the Purple Man in a couple of pages, when usualally, he’s a much more terrifying and disgusting threat
I believe they were trying to adapt the original Daredevil issues, when the stakes were generally lower and the villains were more childish in their villainy, as comics of the 60s and 70s still operated under the Comic Code Authority1
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Comic Code Authority was the equivalent of the Hays Code for comics, a list of requirements for publishers that severely restricted writers and artists in order to save children from Sotanic picture books. Then, in the 1970s, Marvel itself gradually began abandoning the Code in favor of more mature stories ↩︎