Daredevil #602 Review

Writer: Charles Soule / Artist: Mike Henderson / Marvel Comics From the holy prophets Charles “Goddamn” Soule and Mike Henderson, we have been blessed with the six hundred and second issue of Daredevil this week. If you read my reviews (and let’s be honest, of course you do because I’m delightfully charming), you know that I’ve been loving the politically motivated action that they’ve laid down in the “Mayor Fisk” storyline leading into “Mayor Murdock.” I’m a politics nerd who grew up reading comics in the Bendis-era of Marvel. A story of working within a mayoral bureaucracy to defeat a villain with the assistance of New York’s street level heroes is pure bliss. Throw some ninjas in the mix, and I’m all about it. This issue has Mayor Daredevil handling this Hand attack on NYC and bringing in Foggy Nelson as Chief of Staff. The first pages of this book read like the West Wing. I got the same feeling of “Can’t Matt Murdock be our president?” until he fucks it up and tries to get Foggy to cover for him while he goes out to fight. Foggy steps it up in a glorious scene that’d only be more powerful if he literally slapped Murdock. “You are NOT the only hero in this city.” Yea, Matt. This is accompanied by a great page of panels showing Moon Knight, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, a couple Spider-Men, Echo, Misty Knight, and Ms. Marvel giving the Hand the business. This sentiment is powerful and reveals Daredevil’s crippling sense of guilt and responsibility that if he’s not punching someone …