BNP At Home Recommends: Daredevil (2019)

Writer: Chip Zdarsky / Artist: Marco Checchetto / Marvel Comics With everything that’s going on in the world right now, a lot of us are either spending all of our time at home or at least a lot less of it doing what we used to. The result of this newfound lifestyle is a lot more free time than we were prepared to have. While you might think that this is the perfect time for comic book publishers to take advantage of readers as a captive audience, that hasn’t been the case. Instead of getting new releases of comics every week, most of the industry was placed on a temporary freeze. We at Black Nerd Problems are here to help fill the void by giving you recommendations of some of our favorite comics that you can go back and check out for yourself. One of these such comics is actually a currently ongoing series. The Daredevil (2019) series written by Chip Zdarsky and art by Marco Checchetto has been one of my most enjoyable reads of the year.

I’m not sure what it is about the tortured hero trope that works so well, but Daredevil is one of the best in the game at it. With the topics of guilt, responsibility, and shame running as constant themes throughout the series, we get plenty of the brooding—and, ultimately, the overcoming of that—that makes Matt Murdock work so well. The series is set in a New York City where Wilson Fisk is the mayor and mostly uninvolved in the city’s crime world. But that doesn’t mean Daredevil can take any breaks. Unfortunately, he’s practically forced to…