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[Dimetre]

So, how excited are people for Saladin Ahmed taking over the writing reins on Daredevil?

The only thing I've read from him was the first trade paperback from his run on Black Bolt. It was fine. It won an Eisner, which may have raised my expectations for it too high, and I'm not a big Inhumans fan, but there were things about it I liked. Ahmed could be okay. I'm not as excited as I was when Ed Brubaker was taking over, but that's hard to match.

[Mike Murdock]

I liked his Black Bolt run. Since it involved a space prison, there was a decent amount of conversation about incarceration, using Carl Creel as an example of reform. I think that fits well with the ethos of Daredevil and what Zdarsky was writing. Other than that, I'll be cautiously optimistic, but we'll have to see.
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[DesignDevil]

Well, Checchetto will definitely be missed.

The writing and story have nowhere to go but up in my opinion. The praise this current run has gotten continues to confound me. Whenever I see Zdarsky called "one of the greatest" or mentioned in the same breath as Miller, Bendis, Brubaker, or even Waid, who I had many issues with... It's like seeing Michael Bay grouped with Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, or the Coens.


So, I'm moderately excited to see where Mr. Ahmed takes the character, what little there is left of the character I love.

I just hope Matt is no longer a religious zealot like Zdarsky turned him into. Kevin Smith's Matt was an atheist compared to this nonsense.

[Dimetre]

I'm not thrilled about a costume change out of nowhere. All this stuff hyping a white Daredevil costume reminds me too much of when the Charles Soule and Ron Garney changed the costume to black with no explanation for two years. If there is a valid in-story explanation for the change, I can accept it, but if it's a cheap way to get attention, it will only annoy me.

I don't think Zdarsky portrayed Matt as a religious zealot, but simply as a practising Catholic, and those roots go all the way back to Tony Isabella's short run in the 70s, so that's established canon.

[DesignDevil]

Matt specifically mentions God ten times in the latest issue alone while wielding glowing blades he pulled out of his own head. Yes, he's in Hell battling the Beast and this new sister of the Beast that Zdarksy pulled out of his ass, but its a little much.

Throughout this entire run it's been constant repetitive references to God. God, sinning, going to confession, "I'm gods holy warrior.", "God sent his guardian angel to guide my life", "I'm an instrument of god!" "God's the reason I became Daredevil."

No, this is not the same as Matt occasionally going to confession, or dwelling too much on guilt, or praying.

But then I'm reminded that every Daredevil story before 2020 happened to a different version of Matt Murdock. This new version that Chip created can be a more fanatical Catholic because he had a completely different life than the one we've all read.