Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev's Daredevil may rival the works of Miller and Ann Nocenti, but those who stop with their run are depriving themselves of one equally as compelling.
Immediately following the finale of The Murdock Papers came Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's The Devil in Cell-block D, and it was just as good as those that came before. If you thought that because Matt was sent to prison the Kingpin would let up, you'd also be wrong, as the resurgent crime boss again set out to make the Hell's Kitchen attorney's life a living hell.
During 2008's Dark Reign (an event that saw Norman Osborn handed control of National Security with H.A.M.M.E.R.), Fisk sent Lady Bullseye to murder crooked members of New York's judiciary and to make it look as though Daredevil himself had done it. This nightmare was compounded further when it transpired that Bullseye, like Daredevil, was a lawyer by day, granting Murdock no respite in the fight to clear his name.
This was a period where Matt's life only seemed to go from bad to worse. It should come as no surprise, then, that the Kingpin was behind it all.
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.
