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AYRT

I'm still giving it a chance, but when he was talking to that witness, I was just cringing the entire time. I fight hard for criminal justice reform, and prosecutorial overreach and bias is just such a huge problem.

I'm hoping this isn't going to turn into another lionization of our CJ system. It was so meaningful to me to actually have a non-smarmy criminal defense lawyer as a protagonist. I hope Soule surprises me and addresses some of my concerns, so my rage can land on a beloved character for making yet another major misstep as an overcompensation to his disaster of a personal life, instead of on the creative team for robbing me of a favorite hero in favor of promoting the prison industrial complex like most crime fiction.

I sort of got the sense reading it that Matt going so overboard with the witness was a sign of something that happened in the 8 months that we missed? Like, that Matt becoming a DA and being that hellbent of this new way of doing things was a response to a specific event that sent him in a new direction, part of what made him fall out with Foggy and decide he couldn't be both Matt and Daredevil in public anymore?

We'll see. But to me it read as so obviously out of character to Matt that I think there's something else going on there.

Soule has mentioned things being slowly unearthed over the course of the comic to let us know what happened so I think that whatever led to Matt being an aggressive DA in an elevator shaft was a major, major thing. Like, he had a successful practice and a great support system and he was comfortable with himself. . .now he's isolated and again prosecuting on the cheap in an elevator shaft. Matt's worked long and hard since Born Again for financial stability. If nothing else, he wouldn't give that up easily.

I dunno. In interviews, Soule has given Waid praise multiple times as well as other writers. I think he knows full well the task he's taking on since Daredevil has been written by so many Important Comics Writers. So I trust him and I think he is fully aware that post Secret Wars Matt is going to inspire a LOT of questions.

Matt's been financially destitute more than once since Born Again.

AYRT I know. He also was homeless during the tail end of Nocenti's and the beginning of Chichester's run but this was basically all connected to how much he was knocked down a peg during Born Again until he got his legal license back :P Waid's run made a parallel in the beginning where Matt lost his source of income bc Foggy didn't want to be partners anymore but was not destitute this time due to having his debts paid off and everyone wanting to give him favors.

Giving that all up as he apparently has would lead him to be financially vulnerable for p. much the first time since the nineties (unless he was destitute during Shadowland/Andy Diggle's run - I've read almost all of vol 2 but I'm not quite finished). Which is a huge decision for Matt to make because it means he would rather be financially and socially vulnerable rather than have people know that he and Daredevil are the same person. I have no idea why Matt would choose to do that to himself but we're only on issue one and I'm sure we'll find out.

No, definitely not destitute during Shadowlands - he had access to all of the Hand's funds then - but he was pretty much a vagrant in the 4-part miniseries that made him decide to be Daredevil again.

I sort of wonder if in a twisted way he partly did it for Foggy, to reverse Foggy's disbarring and give him his life back without the complications of getting himself legally declared alive again etc.

Which miniseries is this? I would like to read it :D

sa from below OH you mean a RECENT miniseries

Having now read Daredevil: Reborn I make the case that this falls under 'extraneous circumstances where Matt would give up his financial stability that he has worked hard for.'

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