This legendary story of Daredevil remains one where our hero unmasked by his worst enemy ends in the street. We admire the way changes in the forfeiture of the character; Each chapter start lying sees our heroes in a more dramatic story than the previous position:
Chapter 1: In the sheets of her luxurious apartment, the title Apocalypse is here to remind us that this is probably the last minutes of rest before the torture devised by Miller and Mazzuchelli.
Chapter 2, blasted his apartment, Matt sleeps in a rat hole unworthy of his social position. Plagued by psychotic delusions, the reader discovers simultaneously with Wilson Fisk Murdock carried in him a latent madness gem.
Chapter 3: arguably the most dramatic in the history of blind vigilante: here lying on the pavement among the tramps. The misadventures of Matt Murdock recalls the hero of Paul Auster: a character from the upper lower class experiencing a major identity crisis ends in the street. And coincidentally (not shaved) David Mazuchelli adapt The City of Glass the austere Paul.
Chapter 4: At the end of the previous chapter, Matt, a true martyr of Liberalism Reagan ended up as christ detached from his cross on the lap of a good sister.
Chapter 5: Mazzuchelli plays with religious images and Matt sleeping with his arms on a hospital bed. Maggie mentions the Virgin Mary. The religious dimension is rather surprising from Miller. Yet the signs accumulate Matt door throughout the history a little cross, remembering his mother. He forgives her betrayal with Karen selflessness verging admiration. Ben Urich considers him the Messiah of Hell's Kitchen.
And when our hero finally gets over it, by standing facing a punching bag, it is in Chapter 6, the figure of the devil. Miller plays with symbols to support the feature on schizophrenia Murdock, a saint dressed in devil.
If he had to choose one thing to Born Again (Resurrection; even a biblical image), it is the portrait of a man adrift. Marvel published at the end of episode 226 US volume, prologue to the saga. It would be wrong to minimize the scope. Matt Murdock, still in full possession of his address the crisis of the thirties, and has all the signs of a violent depression creeping anger, judgment of falsehood, emotional detachment from Melvin Potter.
For Born Again remains the story of an abandoned man Matt Karen Page is abandoned by his secret and who delivers his honor to the dogs. Here then plated Glorianna O Breen. Kevin Smith recalled in his run Murdock unconsciously feeds a hatred of women: Abandoned by her mother when her friends are brutally murdered (Elektra, Karen) or suicide (Heather).
Matt expunged by the court is abandoned by his peers and surrenders in turn. He gives up his vigilante career, nobility, strength, honor. The ultimate humiliation of being stabbed by Turk, the pathos of the human comedy jester Miller.
It also abandons his friends cruelly. Like Tom Sawyer, he organizes and attends funerals false grief of his friends staying stashed in the shade. Yet virtually silent from beginning to end, Matt awakens in the reader a strong sense of empathy. This is in my opinion the best work of Miller's Batman hero Marv through Leonidas often being unfriendly. When years later, Miller DD revisit the origins of John Romita Jr, it will fail to find the voice of the character.
After this wonderful scenario, it would suffice to follow to the letter to make a copy movie, the end of m Born Again 'has always seemed out of step with the rest. Miller indulges in his usual excess, totally at odds with the subtlety of the beginning. Gone part of mental failure between Murdock and Fisk: this one hires a stupid psychopath to water Hell's Kitchen Napalm. Really?
And what about the Marvel Team Up with Captain America on American patriotism bottom dropped completely?
The last image of Matt and Karen, Casual and romantic ballad in New York, I always frustrated a true end to this saga.
At the time, the editions Lug had discontinued the publication of the saga because of its violence very appropriate for young readers. And because the Comic, via the "Grim & Gritty" entered its adult phase. And the legend ... Daredevil;