Daredevil #3-5: Know Fear III-V

KNOW FEAR pts III-V

Written by Chip Zdarsky
Penciled by Marco Checchetto
Published Mar 27, Apr 17, and May 15, 2019

   After being shot by former Chicago turned NYPD Detective Cole North, Daredevil uses everything he's got to escape only to later fight him while being badly injured. Eventually the Man Without Fear is in cuffs, but New York's finest refuse to perp walk him. Suddenly gunfire erupts. And Daredevil has been saved by... The Punisher?

"You're safe and sound back here in 1955..."

   As he begins to come to, he watches Frank Castle beating one of The Owl's restrained goons for information. Finally seeing Daredevil actually kill someone, Castle sees him as a kindred spirit. While the two vigilante's trade insults, the fight soon turns lethal. After blowing up the secret hideout, Daredevil delivers the Punisher to the hood of a police car while Cole, realizing that even Hell's Kitchen is more crooked than the Windy City, gets a congratulatory phone call from the Kingpin. 

Because only the BEST cops get phone calls from the Kingpin. Right?

   Using the Punisher's information on Owlsley, Daredevil raids the mobsters safehouse wearing the merc's familiar skull emblem. But still hurt, he's quickly outmanned. While the fight spills out across the city, he finds himself going down when he's rescued by the Defenders. Waking up again in a patched up state, the conversation turns surreal as he finds out he and all his superhero consorts are occasional accidental murderers. He takes off and finds himself on the run once again.

Aw crap - We're all murderers!

   The story ends back at his apartment with Spider-Man being able to sneak up on him way too easily.  The webslinger feels for him, and confides in him that accidents happen in their line of work - even to him. But this version of Daredevil is wreckless, and it's time to stop. Matt removes his cowl and hands it to Spider-Man. It's over. But what happens next? We'll have to wait to find out in "No Devils. Only God" coming up next.

You need an extra mask?

   So it seems every writer who ever pens a Daredevil story deals with this. Matt comes to terms with being the devil every couple of years. But in a city with Wilson Fisk as mayor, and now with what could or could not be innocent blood on his hands, this could be a different Daredevil than we've ever seen before. Chip Zdarsky has my attention, and I'll follow the Man Without Fear wherever it takes me, but this story feels just a little like I've heard it before. Still - when you've been around since 1964, some tales probably get spun a handful of times. I give this one an 8/10.

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