Daredevil

Daredevil: Born Again – Optics

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As Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) begins his reign as Mayor of New York City, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) takes on a case involving a good Samaritan attempting to help a man in the subway who ends up being charged with the death of a one of the attackers (who turns out to be a cop). Despite the objections of Kirsten (Nikki M. James), Matt takes the case sure of the man’s innocence. The discovery that Hector (Kamar de los Reyes) is also a street vigilante, known as the White Tiger, now outlawed by Fisk’s new administration, only makes the case hit closer to home.

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Daredevil: Born Again – Heaven’s Half Hour

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In a perfect world, the events of the first 10 minutes of Daredevil: Born Again would have taken place as part of another MCU movie or show. After the (already leaked) events that open the show, “Heaven’s Half Hour” jumps a year forward to reintroduce our core characters and new supporting ones. Bringing us back to status quo, only to jump forward to a new reality, and then likely to return back to familiar ground in a couple of episodes does feel unnecessarily messy. If these events had actually occurred a year (or more) ago, and we were left to stew on them in real time, the lose and our new introduction would have had far more dramatic effect. However, despite the glut of content Marvel continues to pour out, and attempts to keep all events connected across the MCU, none of these other shows, or even films, have had the dramatic weight to contain these sequences.

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Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2

Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood #2

Another anthology issue offers three more stories of Spider-Man wearing the black suit which looks terrific in each of the stories presented here. Still new to the suit, in “The Edge of Rage” Spider-Man loses control with Morbius, beating him unconscious, and also later threatening Flash Thompson. We witness his recognition and shame for events but we also see the symbiote’s interest in Peter giving into his darker impulses.

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