The most recent issue of Daredevil by Mark Waid is a sort of heart warming story we rarely see in comics, nonetheless in Daredevil. There is no villian, or fighting of any kind actually. Daredevil doesn't save anyone. In fact, he gets saved by a group of blind kids. Too often, superheroes are portrayed as supermen, ubermensch keeping watch over sheep that would all die without them. It's a very authoritarian world view.
Here we have a Daredevil getting saved by a group of kids with disabilities. It's refreshing. We get a glimpse of the old Matt, as well. In a moment of brooding, Foggy begins to talk about the "old Matt", the Matt that has literally lost his mind on numerous occasions, has beaten people to a pulp and enjoyed it, crippled the owl and killed Bullseye. Matt responds that he hates that guy.
He then attends an office Christmas party wearing a shirt that says "I'm not Daredevil" on it. It's fun, it has good art, and the specter of Matt's terrible life is lurking in the background to leap out when it's least wanted.
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