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Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

Charles Soule being an actual freakin' practicing lawyer when he's not writing comics (overachiever much, lol) fills me with faith that he's made that choice for an interesting artistic reason and that it will probably be one of the better portrayals of Matt Murdock as a lawyer that we ever see. That was certainly the case with She-Hulk.

And re: the Secret Wars reset, I'm actually more interested to see what will happen because it means that Waid may get to actually tell a complete story and *gasp* end the story of 616 Matt altogether if he wants. Which is actually a huge deal and means for all we know he could kill them all!

That's so insane to me because when else would you ever get to do that? And you have to admit that 616 Matt's life story has become an unrelenting storm of tragedies at this point. If the plan is to go back to a darker DD would we really wanna do that to him? Yikes.

Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Soule could be doing it for interesting artistic reasons, or he could be doing it because of personal bias. I have no idea.

I just know that we live in a nation where the criminal justice system is hugely stacked against the accused, where people die in jail awaiting trial for misdemeanors because they can't meet bail, where shows like Law & Order lionize prosecutors and law enforcement - even glorifying brutality.

It's so rare to get good-guy defenders in fiction. Instead you get slimeballs like Saul Goodman. And now they're taking one of those good guy defenders away from us. And I don't like it. I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm willing to be won over. But I think Matt Murdock as a defense attorney was important and I don't like that we're losing that.

Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

^^^^

the above comment is exactly why i am concerned about this. i'm totally willing to read the new book by soule, i think something interesting could be done if matt uses his daredevilling to help people who are innocent, but i REALLY question the timing of this considering the criminal justice system + how suspects are treated is a hot button issue right now, and matt was LITERALLY anti-police brutality in past stories (in volume three he literally takes on a unit of racist cops who are determined to murder the person he was defending along with others).

i just don't know if taking a character who symbolized justice for the unheard and making him work for that same system that harmed people he's defended in the past is A Good Idea.

Re: itt: daredevil 18 SCREAMS INTO THE DISTANCE

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

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