2. Daredevil - Issue 228
The second chapter of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchellis masterful Daredevil: Born Again may indeed be the roughest. Matt Murdoch, homeless, penniless and thoroughly depressed, has had his life systematically destroyed by The Kingpin. To make matters worse, it was the love of his life Karen Page, now a drug addicted porn star, that sold his secret identity for a hit, thus causing all the trouble in the first place... Matt then becomes terrified of facing the outside world, especially seeing as his best friend, Foggy Nelson, is now shacked up with his girlfriend Glori. Eventually, Matt sums up the courage to take the fight to Kingpin, but in a stunning reversal of the usual fare, he is roundly beaten and left for dead. ...It gets worse from there.