The Widow centres around the Black Widow (shockingly enough) and her attempt to hide in plain sight… with Matt, while he reflects on how screwed up his life is. He is in many ways a supporting player rather than a lead character in these stories. The action in this volume is not driven by Murdock (and never really demands too much from him), but instead is centred around him.
Having a protagonist just sit there and reflect on how their circumstances have changed doesn’t necessarily make for the most compelling reading. That isn’t to suggest this section of the run is any less solid than what came before, merely that the focus is different.īendis does this a number of ways. He explores the impact that all of these factors have had on Matt. In this section of his run, Bendis noticeably slows things down a notch and allows us to properly digest it all. In the first half of his run, he dethroned the Kingpin, unmasked Matt Murdock, killed a C-list hero The White Tiger, had Matt Murdock declare himself Kingpin of Hell’s Kitchen, had Matt Murdock marry (and then had his wife leave) and had the Yakuza show up to wage war for the control of Hell’s Kitchen. As a medium published month-on-month, it’s easy to see comic books pushed by the next big reveal, the next big shock – there’s really very little opportunity to explore the consequences of certain events.Īs such, it’s reasonable that the backend of Bendis’ run would not be as event-heavy as the opening few chapters. He stayed with the book to fully explore the ramifications of his shocking twist. So Bendis put his money where his mouth is. It’s more than likely a lot would have been lost in translation. An interview with Bendis collected at the end of the first volume suggested that he was only able to convince editor Joe Quesada to allow him to publicly unmask Matt Murdock as the vigilante Daredevil by agreeing to spend a few years on the title afterwards – it would have seemed unfair to just throw an idea like that out there and leave it as a mess for another writer to pick up.
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