This run sucks

This run sucks.

And believe me, it isn't because “I hate change”. Part of what makes Daredevil such a fun character to read is because there's a long tradition of writers blowing up his status quo going all the way back to Frank Miller's Born Again. Change is baked into the character, much more so than most Big Two characters.

No, the problem is that Soule's run is boring because it has no stakes. What makes Daredevil such a compelling character is that he will never stop being Daredevil even if his life goes to shit in the process. Even if the Kingpin blows up his house, or if a tabloid outs his identity, or if he loses a girlfriend or five. Matt. Never. Quits.

But Soule's Matt doesn't lose anything because he doesn't have anything to lose anymore. He has no girlfriend. Foggy's out of his life. He has NO personal life to speak of. His one friend of sorts is Blindspot, who only knows him as his Daredevil persona. And we're supposed to be so shocked and so sad that this kid we barely know lost his eyes? Who gives a shit?

Soule's lucky this book's art is so good, because if it wasn't NO ONE would give a shit about this book. I haven't been this bored reading a Daredevil run since Diggle.

Kelly/Kesel's runs were fun

I've been a DD fan for a loooong time, and I instantly dropped this run after 5 issues. I tried to give it a chance, but there just isn't anything engaging about the run. Waid was a blast to read, and it just feels cheap and stiff to reset back to a number 1 considering the bullshit way they chose to reboot Matt's life. Maybe after Soule leaves and a new writing team takes over I could come back. But this just left a rotten taste I can't overlook even for the sake of being a fan of the character.

That makes me think.

Are there any heroes that are just hobos without any friends and family left, that only live to fight and wear their costume, that never even take their costume off, that literally live off dumpster diving and handouts from their fellow heroes, or maybe a pity dinner from a (former) villain?

Even Frank sort of has a life outside the hunting.

I've got every issue of Daredevil from V2 onwards (excluding Shadowland) until this run. It disgusts me. I wish they'd stop.

rorschach if you count him as a super hero.
batman and spiderman at one time or another, but mainly they're normal and have personal life ( sorta ).

bueno, but he has friends

Why not Shadowland? I liked it.
>The only DD you will see in a Marvel vs Capcom game will just be him as a background in his Shadowland costume

Original Foolkiller

The Maxx.

I feel the same. Boring as shit. Why the fuck does this get so much praise? I guess there's something about Soule that I just don't "get".

The D-Man had that going for a while.

At this point I can't tell if I hate Marvel or if I just hate everything Soule touches.

His Inhumans was fairly decent, especially towards the end with Maximus and his Amazing Friends.
And that Reader issue, man, that Reader issue.

First 6 issues were good. Reader issue was good. Everything else was terrible.

t. someone that REALLY wanted to like it

The most recent arc where Matt wants to set a legal precedent where superheroes can testify in court without exposing their secret identities shows potential.
Then again, most superheroes don't have secret identities anymore, and in the case Daredevil was testifying at, Luke Cage could have done it instead since he was present too. Not to mention that there should have been more than enough evidence to convict that terrorist lunatic even withoug any testimony.

It was mediocre at best and daytime soap-opera-tier at worst. Creating Reader was literally his only decent contribution to the Inhumans as a whole, despite literally having complete control over their entire mythos.

Even then, Reader is a bit of a problem character considering he's pretty much a walking deus-ex-machina.

I'm so glad Soule made such a big deal about making Matt a prosecutor so he could do precisely jack and shit with it.

But even then, I can't see this to go a long way because it's comics and comics don't work like this.

Maybe he'll succeed with this weird lawyer stunt but I don't think so.
And this run will be back to being boring as fuck while I'll listen to some fucks talking about how Waid's run was too distant from the character's basic traits.

Yeah, that's another thing that I don't get, they spent interviews talking about how Matt's a prosecutor now but there was nothing different to any other court-scenes in any other Daredevil book.

Now that I think about it, I don't even remember any court-related stories in this book to begin with except current story.

Thank you OP. While I had problems with Soule's Daredevil run a part of me felt like they were "not muh" problems, and I try to steer away from those arguments, but you've actually summed up what is good about Daredevil as a character going back to before Born Again, and even before Miller.

Soule's and Waid's run of Daredevil are trash because, yeah, no one is fucking with Matt's life, and that's the heart of Daredevil: hurt Matt but Daredevil don't quit!

This goes into my "not muh" problem Matt being a prosecutor is dumb, because if he's a prosecutor "WHY IS HE DAREDEVIL?" He's a defence lawyer to DEFEND. He's Daredevil to prosecute. It fucks me off a lot man.

At least Muse was somewhat creative as a villain

>Daredevil are trash because, yeah, no one is fucking with Matt's life, and that's the heart of Daredevil: hurt Matt

Waid Daredevil is trash but not because hurting Matt is what Daredevil is about. In fact that is lazy and cheap writing if that is the only kind of DD story you can think of. It is really frustrating when these hack writers get on Daredevil with some forced, ham-fisted disaster in mind and think they are writing Shakespeare.

For the record, Waid is the one that Had Jack Murdock's grave defiled and Matt only recover enough remains to fit into a small box. A stupid and unnecessary thing to add, but Matt suffered so I guess you like Waid now.

>For the record, Waid is the one that Had Jack Murdock's grave defiled and Matt only recover enough remains to fit into a small box. A stupid and unnecessary thing to add, but Matt suffered so I guess you like Waid now.
It was one of the ways Bullseye intended to hurt Matt, why was it any more unnecessary than any other time?

Didn't Waid do something stupid with Jack Murdock during the Original Sin tie in? I stopped reading his run before that.

No, it was a red herring.

Because it's permanent. It is a fact hat a shoe box full of remains is in Jack's grave.

And for what? Some shitty mole-man story that nobody gives a fuck about?

No, sentimentality doesn't work for Matt

Matt has literally been outed as Daredevil at least twice, fucking with someone's grave is small potatoes. Waid's run uses sentimentality, not actually human life, which is why it's trash.

Also, Daredevil isn't Batman. Daredevil doesn't fetishize his father's corpse, fuck his father beat him, Daredevil probably doesn't give half a fuck about Jack apart from in a familial sense.

Don't put words in my mouth. Soule's, and Waid's run on Daredevil have both sucked.

I thought it was an alright story. You're being way too butthurt about some small thing that was just a part of a bigger arc.

Most cape books use sentimentality. It's kinda hard to use human life with them, whatever you might mean by that.

How is Matt's father's corpse being dragged and dismembered around some mole tunnel and then the bits that could be found left in a box on his desk a small thing?

Because it was never addressed after the Bullseye reveal and probably will never be now.

>It's kinda hard to use human life with them, whatever you might mean by that.

That's literally what has been good with Daredevil since fucking Miller though. Read OP's point, you need to fuck with Matt's actual life and you get a good Daredevil story, sentimentality works for other characters (Batman, Spider-Man, Superman), but with Daredevil you need to either really fuck with Matt's life or kill people Matt cares about and ideally both!

???

Are you kidding me? A religious character who's father had been a big part of several stories? A character that's humanity this integral? You don't think he should be effected by his father copse being scattered around?

There is no point in even discussing this further.

I mean by the end of the Waid's run all of Matt's secrets (even the ones he was trying to keep after revealing his identity) are out and he's trying his best to live with that, sounds pretty life-fucking (that's why Soule's run is built on some asspul to negate all the consequences of that) and faithful to Matt's spirit.

He never fucking visits his father's grave, and his father fucking beat him as a child. Yeah, I don't actually think Daredevil gives nearly as much of a shit as say:

>Elektra's death
>Typhoid Mary being his girlfriend and villain
>Karen being a drug fiend and pornstar
>Karen outing him to Kingpin
>Karen dying
>His mother abandoning him as a child
>His father ACTUALLY dying
>Him being outed as Daredevil
>Elektra dying AGAIN ad infinum
>His apartment being blown up
>Being disbarred as a lawyer

I'm in love this this run and think it's one of the best books Marvel is putting out at the moment. It has edge and lacks any MCU shilling. It feels like an old school capeshit comic. It has action, drama, and story arcs that don't get fucked by events. I appreciate the return to the status quo because it's part of what makes me feel like I'm reading an old school comic.

I loved Waid's run too.

I mean, this run is far from perfect, but I see where you're coming from. It does mostly feel like an old school cape book.

>the Purple Children whammied everyone into forgetting Matt is Daredevil

Yeah that's great and all but shouldn't there be a ton of footage of Matt's witness stand confession, not to mention all that crimefighting he did in San Francisco without a mask on?

They supposedly pulled the same mental block shit as Mephisto and made so that people are apparently now just wholly incapable of putting two and two together and realizing that Matt is Daredevil unless he wants them two, even if blatant evidence is staring them right in the face.