Born Again is all about Kingpin's favourite pastime: beating down on Matt Murdock.
When a down-on-her-luck Karen Page resorts to selling Daredevil's secret identity to fund a debilitating drug habit, word soon spreads to Fisk. Utilising his connections with the IRS and pretty much every mean at his disposal, the Kingpin embarks on a campaign to psychologically, physically and monetarily destroy Matt Murdock. He freezes the lawyer's accounts, evicts him from his home, and proceeds to destroy his temporary flat when he has nothing left - leaving only the tattered rags of a discarded Daredevil costume to inform Murdock he knows of his double life.
The Miller/Mazzucchelli comic makes for a remarkably cruel read, but it's also one of Marvel's best. Just as satisfying, however, is seeing Murdock recover from Fisk's campaign. It's a story all about resurrection, and in battling through the fires of Hell's Kitchen, Murdock emerges reborn, revitalised, and more determined than ever.
Still, Fisk is truly abominable in the comic. Daredevil's never had it so good (or worse).
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
