DAREDEVIL NEWS

04/18 - Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell Interview

Charles Soule and Steve McNiven spoke with Marvel.com about the origins of their Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell mini, and some preview pages from May's issue #2 are also posted!

Some snippets...

Charles Soule:

"You know, in some ways, it doesn't feel like I ever really left DAREDEVIL (2015). I've been working on this story since the spring of 2018, which was before my original DAREDEVIL (2015) run even ended. While the book had its ups and downs in terms of full-on productivity during the intervening years, I've certainly been thinking about it for all that time.

Long runs on a character have two lives: one when it's coming out and people are reacting in real-time, and then a reappraisal later when it's had some room to settle and can be viewed both as a whole and in the larger context of the character's history. I'm fortunate to be seeing that happen with the work Ron Garney and I did on the title (as well as my many other collaborators on the run).

The inclusion of key elements and characters in the Daredevil: Born Again television show has been really fun. It's honestly the perfect time for COLD DAY IN HELL to be coming out, because it's hitting right when people are thinking about my existing work on the character. It's great to give readers another shot at how I think about Daredevil, especially how I think about him these days. I'm not the same writer I was seven years ago, and it's been fun to demonstrate that so directly with this project."

Steve McNiven:

"A lot of the background of the story was developed first by Charles and me during our early conversations about doing a Daredevil story out of the main continuity. And many of those background concepts coalesced around a protracted worldwide war. That war sets the stage for this story. Many of the familiar Marvel heroes have been casualties of this war, and the world has suffered a lot of harm to its population and its environment.

Wireless communication is a thing of the past. Shielded hard wiring is necessary to run all electronics, so there are wires everywhere, up the side of buildings and wrapping around cars. Aerial attacks forced people living in large cities to dwell in the lower levels of buildings now. The tops of the skyscrapers went dark. Newspapers and hard-wired radios became the predominant source of information for most people.

Hopefully, if I did my drawing job right, it will help make an interesting backdrop to the compact Daredevil story we are telling. It's our hope that perhaps other Marvel creative types will like the seeds we planted here and, in the same way as my work on OLD MAN LOGAN, come in and flesh out the world we put together."

Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell #2 ships May 28.

Marvel.com