Daredevil #595

MAYOR FISK pt I

Written by Charles Soule
Penciled by Stefano Landini
Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz

Published Nov 8, 2017

   Wilson Fisk, true New Yorker, has incredibly been elected mayor and Matt Murdock can't believe it. As he and Foggy watch the celebration in Times Square, he is determined to somehow reverse this. He petitions his boss, the District Attorney, to allow him to build an election fraud case against the man known as the Kingpin, but is instead asked to build cases around New York's superheroes, or as the DA calls them, vigilantes.

They're the bad guys now, Matt.

   Later he asks his assistant how they can do it and he learns she lost a car once because Spider-Man threw it at the Rhino. It slowly dawns on him how he and his counterparts are being manipulated in the public eye. He refuses to quit, but as he responds to a woman's cries for help, he's ambushed. The scene is actually a setup by the NYPD. They take him into custody, later delivering him to the mayor's office uptown. While he waits outside, he can overhear Hammerhead talking with Fisk. It's a conversation that he's meant to hear, as the Kingpin fakely refuses the mobster. He walks out and is stunned to see the masked man without fear, this time in cuffs.

Well would you just look at this?!

   The officers bring him in, and they're dismissed. He explains to Daredevil that he was chosen by this city to save it. He won the election fair and square. Daredevil uses his supersonic hearing to manipulate the cuffs, eventually freeing himself. He uses his baton to break the window and makes his escape.

DAREDEVIL JUST COMMITTED SUICIDE! I SEEEEENT IT!

   The issue wraps with the officers running in and the Kingpin ordering them to go after him. After all, he was attacked. Will he be able to escape? Will he be able to thrive in a city in which he's now a criminal himself? We'll have to wait as this issue is left to be continued.
   You know it seems like old times with the Kingpin squaring off with Daredevil and not knowing his secret identity. Way back in 1986's issue #227, Karen Page spilled the beans. Now after the Purple Man's magic, he has his cover back. It's quite a twist that New York's highest profile criminal now sits in an elected office. Now that he's on the run, certainly sets the table for Matt to get darker than he has in a long time. I give this issue a 9/10.

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