In the Daredevil stable it is a book so good it has obvious influences on Daredevil’s origin story in other media. I might have been inclined to try to 'stretch' it to fit if I had liked it as an actual story, but I really didn't. And as much as I like Miller's two runs on the main Daredevil book, I don't think his 'take' can be imported into the origin without fundamentally changing it.

Chronological Placement Considerations: See above for the argument that this belongs in continuity at all.If you're a fan of the Netflix series, the first season took most of it's cues from this book: such as Stick, the Kingpin, and the iconic, early-career blindfold mask. In other topic, the Kingpin is briefly introduced killing his predecessor in the mob, and the scene indicates that he was some kind of assistant until that moment, but later is mentioned that he “trained” an assassin, but that’s kinda odd, being able to be “training” his own enforcers if he was still a shadowy assistant not long ago yet. But I should say that I actually liked the artwork, with the exception of Elektra, who was drawn like a socialite Bride of Frankenstein. Matt saves Some Girl from Some Bad Guy by thwacking bullets back at the Bad Guy with his stick like they were baseballs and he was holding a bat! While working with fellow lawyer Foggy after years apart, Matt stumbles into the Kingpin's realm and finds a good use for his otherworldly senses.

Later, the Black Widow turns up at Matt’s office, wanting him to “go bonk some bad guys on the head”, but Matt wants nothing to do with her. That's something you might want to keep in mind as you're almost up to Typhoid Mary's early appearances. E clar că omul eșuează ca traducător de benzi desenate - e singurul traducător de așa ceva care m-a făcut să mă exprim în materie de traducere.

In line with that, my first impressions of the tonality and storyline of The Man Without Fear is that I think the fact that it was Miller who wrote this that it was unavoidable for me to make a little Batman connection. The book tells the story of how Jack was killed, how Matt was blinded and what exactly Daredevil did before he set up his law firm with Foggy - essentually, everything that Yellow misses out (although there are some inconsistencies if you try to read them as the same continuity, eg Electra and Karen both claiming to be Matt's first love). The story is mostly told via this odd, overwrought narration, which makes everything sound like a soap opera. This story can't fit in continuity because of the death of Jack Murdock: in every other telling of the origin of Daredevil and the childhood of Matt, it'always shown that his father is killer after Matt started the college, and he knows Foggy Nelson. It roars down concrete canyons and brittle branches clatter in combat; surrendering winter leaves that rustle and skitter like fairies, begging Matt to join the dance.

But this book, to me, feels like Miller is retreading old grounds, and telling exactly the same story he told already in his two runs - only this time, he tells it worse and more boring.A small point, but one where Miller took a minor detail in the origin and made it far darker, and quite needlessly so I thought. His love for fighting came from his father, but he promised to be better than his Dad by not fighting. And his approach is frustrating in it's outright refusal to acknowledge any continuity but his own (and even his own sometimes) and I find his new ideas are tantamount to desperate and unnecessarily rubbish.