Warning! Spoilers for Daredevil #29 ahead!
The latest issue of Daredevil throws Matt Murdock into a very similar situation to one he once found himself in during a classic scene in Netflix’s Daredevil show. Daredevil has been convicted of manslaughter after accidentally killing a burglar early on in the series, and as a result he is sentenced to two years of incarceration. He also found himself behind bars, not in the comics, but in the popular Netflix series. In the show Murdock wasn’t convicted of a crime, rather he was there trying to solve one, but in true Daredevil fashion his investigation led to a fight. In the latest issue of the most recent Daredevil comics run, Murdock was involved in a prison brawl much like his television counterpart.
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In Netflix’s Daredevil season 3 episode 4, Murdock visits an inmate in prison for information on Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin. Fisk soon realizes Murdock is asking about him, and after the inmate punches Matt, Murdock is forced to go deeper into the prison to the infirmary. The medical examiner, working for Fisk, attempts to sedate Murdock with a syringe of drugs, managing to get a small portion of the drug into his system. It isn’t long after his fight with the medical examiner that the cell doors in Murdock’s area open up, with the prisoners given instructions to murder the lawyer. Weakened by the poison, facing a seemingly endless horde of killers, Daredevil fights for his life in that prison, beaten so terribly that he almost doesn’t make it out alive.
Daredevil #29, written by Chip Zdarsky with art by Marco Checchetto and Marcio Menyz, opens on Murdock eating in the prison cafeteria, before he realizes he has been poisoned. Daredevil’s heightened senses pick up on the poison before it has any fatal impact, but it is enough to weaken him greatly. Murdock tells the guards he needs some air, so he goes outside into the prison yard then turns to tell the guard he needs to go to the infirmary. When Daredevil turns around, however, he isn’t met with the guard, but with a mob of prisoners all hired second hand by the Kingpin to kill him. Once again Matt Murdock finds himself up against a large group of killers while poison courses through his system.
In both instances of Daredevil’s experience with prison brawls, he was poisoned making his superhuman senses dull, facing off against a great number of violent prisoners all trying to kill him with each of them taking orders from their respective Kingpins. The only difference between the two fights, other than the circumstances surrounding them, are the way each of them ends. In the show, Matt makes it out of the prison with not only the information he was looking for on the Kingpin, but also with his life. In the comic, Daredevil only presumably suspects Kingpin’s involvement after he confirms the warden orchestrated the attack after being ordered to do so by an unknown boss.
Netflix Daredevil makes it out of the prison with his life, but comics Daredevil is still in prison and may be dead before the beginning of the next issue. Matt has suffered a severe stab wound to the gut after fighting off all of the would-be assassins, and before succumbing to unconsciousness, he hears the warden confirm his death. The comics version of the classic Daredevil fight scene from the Netflix series could have far more serious consequences than it did on the show.
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