Daredevil: Identity
At the end of the previous Daredevil volume, Dark Art, poor Blindspot had been blinded. Specifically, he’d had his eyes gouged out by the mad artist known as the Muse. So now, as if Matt Murdock didn’t have enough good ol’ Catholic guilt already weighing him down (the cover art to issue #15 is an homage to the classic Born Again cover by David Mazzucchelli), he also has to live with blaming himself for what’s happened to his protégé. He’s so down he’s even pursuing a kind of death wish by putting a bounty on his own head as Daredevil.
It all sets up a story arc whose main purpose is to provide the backstory for why everyone in the world forgot that Matt Murdock was Daredevil. This is related by Matt in the confessional to a muscular priest (he’s a member of the Ordo Draconum) who absolves him by sending him on his way to go back to fighting crime. I won’t go into the details of the mass amnesia event, but it involves the Purple Man, who has built a machine that, along with his purple brood of kids, allows him to amplify his powers and control the minds of every human on the planet. Who knew this B-lister baddie would go on to have such an impact?
This plot device was criticized at the time, and fairly so. It’s all ridiculous, even for a superhero comic. And it’s most of what you get here. So the Back in Black series by Charles Soule continues its up-and-down progress. Chinatown good. Supersonic bad. Dark Art good. Identity bad. My hopes are up for the next instalment!
Alex Good 
It’s a cool cover though!
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Yep!
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Gouged out? Ouch.
And everyone forgetting Daredevil? I know there are a lot of stories I’ve never heard of, but that seems kind of, well, over the top even for a comic.
But as fraggle says, that is one cool cover. I’d be tempted by that alone 🙂
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Yeah, that mass amnesia event was a whopper. But they had to somehow press the reset button on the character. So it turned into a ridiculous excuse for a reboot.
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Character reboots are tough. Because if everyone is tied together, like marvel has done now, then everybody else has to be reset. OR the writers come up with super ridiculous ideas of why just THAT particular character gets reset.
Personally, I think Superman should just turn evil and rule the entire cosmoverse of both Marvel and DC. Kick everyone’s sorry ass and make the readers weep…
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Did you ever read that Red Superman comic where he was a commie?
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Red Son!
Why yes I did 😀
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2016! Why, I didn’t even think you were born yet!
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Just out of diapers. I was a precocious lad back then 😀
Reading whatever I could get my mitts on….
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Still seems weird to me the artist is known as the Muse. He’s his own inspiration? Isn’t that terribly narcissistic?
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Well he is a sadistic serial killer so he probably scores high on the narcissism scale too. He definitely has that look.
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