Ben Urich: We Coulda Had It All

***Spoilers for the Ending of Daredevil*** Watching Daredevil come to fruition was a dream come true. I read the series throughout my high school years and watching the show was like a euphoria water boarding me with nostalgia (to my delight). There were many elements taken from Frank Miller’s “The Man Without Fear” origin that put Matt Murdock on the same scale as being gritty as fuck (Miller did the same for Batman with “The Dark Knight Returns”) as well as Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev’s flawless 4 year run on the series as well. I’m watching the series and eating it all up and then it happened… a character came into the light as if he was just unlocked from a video game. Stepping straight out of the Daredevil mythos was none other than The Gawd of The Printing Press Benjamin “Ben” Urich coming into the lime light.

I’m so ashamed to say that I was completely thrown off by who Ben was until they said his name entirely, at which point I damn near knocked my laptop off the table in excitement, disbelief, and joy. I didn’t realize my dude was going to be up in this series! This was fucking Christmas for me man. Lemme put yall on game real fast, Ben Urich is the best reporter in Marvel to ever do it. Point fucking blank period. Ben Urich is the fucking 50 Cent in the news world. He is out here in the Marvel universe writing the articles that exposed Wilson Fisk as King Pin and outed Norman Osborn as The Goblin. Ben Urich is the epitome of hard hitting Noir, street cri…