Category: Daredevil
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My latest book, A Philosopher Reads… Marvel Comics' Daredevil: From the Beginning to Born Again, is now available — if you're curious, check out the introduction below (and also see my recent posts at Psychology Today drawn from the book). – — — —- —– —- — — – I don’t know about you, but…
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SPOILERS FOR DEVIL'S REIGN #1 BELOW! In last week's Devil's Reign #1, the first installment in the Daredevil-centered Marvel Comics event by writer Chip Zdarsky, artist Marco Checchetto, and colorist Marcio Menyz, Wilson Fisk—better known as the Kingpin, and currently the Mayor of New York—has enacted a citywide ban on superheroes to get revenge on…
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SPOILERS FOR THE CURRENT RUN OF DAREDEVIL BELOW! For the last year, Daredevil has been in prison, where he was sentenced in Daredevil #24 for second-degree manslaughter, resulting from the eventual death of a burglar he beat up in the first issue of the current run. Since he's been incarcerated—as Daredevil, mind you, avec mask…
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Ah, comics. The other day I was chatting about New Avengers #22 with with my friend Christine of the fantastic Daredevil blog The Other Murdock Papers. I mentioned how how out-of-character it seemed that Daredevil would exclaim "Toss her!" when the New Avengers are trying to extract information from Victoria Hand. (Remember that New Avengers scribe Brian…
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The Good Men Project, a website I'm honored to be affiliated with (as a frequent contributor and now an editor-at-large), is currently running a series of articles on heroes and heroism, two of which feature superheros in particular: "The Man Without Fear: Heroism and Elementary School" is by my good friend Dr. Matt Finch (and…
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So here we are, in early October–New York Comic Con is several days away–and I realized I had written a lot about the new DCU before anybody had actually read the books, but I had yet to comment on it after reading September's big batch of #1's. Rather than give a book-by-book review, I'll just…
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While this week is mostly about getting ready for the release of Captain America: The First Avenger on Friday, today is all about Daredevil #1 by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, Marco Martin, and their amazing friends. I'm actually surprised how much I loved this book. Like many people, I'm a big fan of the Miller,…
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Wow, everything's coming up Miller and Mazzuchelli lately (which is fine with me): The Hollywood Reporter is… well… reporting that Fringe writer-producer David Caleb Kane is adapting the "Born Again" storyline for the Daredevil reboot movie. Not familiar with Kane, but if done well this will give the movie some cred with comics fans (just as…
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This week I've been reading Nancy Sherman's book Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind, which not only looks at how Stoicism can apply to the modern military (and how much military codes and standards dervie from Stoic thought), but also provides a nice introduction to Stoicism itself, combatting common (and often) mistaken ideas…
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This post, which I had intended to write since Daredevil: Reborn #3 came out last Wednesday, was inspired by recent comments on one of my posts on self-loathing at Psychology Today, and also serves as a companion piece to my post on Green Arrow from earlier this year. I really doubt revelations of tortured self-loathing on…
Mark D. White 