Daredevil By Chip Zdarsky Vol. 1: Know Fear

Daredevil: Know Fear, by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto (Marvel)It was hard not to notice this series after it was nominated for the Eisner trifecta in 2020 (Best Continuing Series, Best Writer and Best Cover Artist) and again in 2021 (Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Continuing Series). Prior to picking it up, the only other thing I had read from either creator was Zdarsky's enjoyable "Stillwater". I'm a big fan of Daredevil and have read all the other seminal runs (Miller, Smith, Bendis, Brubaker, and Waid). I purchased this TPB for about $14 on Amazon. I noticed it received a 4.8 Customer Review score on Amazon, 4.29 on Goodreads, and an 8.7 Critic score on Comic Book Round Up. The first volume was spectacular! Daredevil is the epitome of the street-level hero that gets down and dirty in the grit, stink, and grime of the criminal underworld. He is also one of the more complex and cerebral of Marvel's characters. He has a great supporting cast and I particularly like it when the cameos feel organic and purposeful (which reminds me of the Bendis run). SPOILER - the second volume in this series falls off quite a bit from the first. I was disappointed in the direction Zdarsky takes it after Know Fear. However, this volume had some really great conceptualized story visuals by Zdarsky and equally strong renderings by Checchetto, accompanied by some beautiful covers. Anyone who enjoys the character should enjoy the quality of this first arc.

I thought it was a really good story. I thought it was really interesting. The fact that Daredevil got pushed that he killed somebody. There's nothing to dislike about it.

Loved every bit of it, I can't wait to read the rest of the series by Chip Zdarsky. 10/10 great read

Truly spectacular! Chip Zdarsky has written Daredevil as he should be: a man that deals with his own violence, unsure if for justice or for the sheer pleasure of it. His moral world shatters when he is framed for a death, the man without fear fears himself. It is not a story written as endless fights, there is a lot of action of course, but there is also internal strife, and his interesting point of view as a blind man. The first part has this reflexive tone and in the last part of this volume (my favorite) Zdarsky shows us what it would be if Daredevil would embrace a lethal path; there appear other Marvel characters (as Punisher and Spider-Man) with the tone accord to Murdock's ordeal. They appear in a very mature way, it doesn't feel as unjustified cameos... I would say more but instead: You have to read it! The reason why I'm not scoring this volume with five stars is because the time to introduce a new character, a detective from Chicago, he wasn't that interesting to me... Maybe in the second volume the inclusion of that character will prove to be important for the story.Checchetto's art is very good, specially for the characters. It is modern, detailed and dynamic. But I am not sure about the backgrounds, they are so detailed and precise as 3D isometrics, makes me afraid of the use of digital tracing, a technic that usually takes the life out of drawings; I could be wrong, though. Sunny Gho's colors are professional although a tad luminous to my taste, but in the end it is a good work by all the artists involved in this volume.

My name is Michael J Florio.I myself write comics. Got my masters in entertainment writing. One of my first true loves in comics after discovering the OG TMNT was Dare Devil. The street level drama and the complicated human connection we try to mend as imperfect humans amongst the world that God had designed just for us. I loved the symbolism used not in just his suit but what he turned his life into to honor his father and his fellow people.I thought Chip wrote a very strong piece of character centric introspection. It was a graceful ending with Spiderman coming in with the old yeller speech; iconic. The tone on violence added some conversational topics to the forum of how heroism doesn’t always favor those who choose to be heroes.From some perspectives it’s an over reach or an even crazier bold position to anoint ones self above the law of man. What I don’t ever see enough of in Dare Devil is exploring how man’s law can’t possibly supersede God’s will. In this collected edition, the fear Matt discovered was God’s plan and how his own choice wasn’t to be Dare Devil but to learn from why he chose to become the Devil.To know you must become as you become you begin to say and only then can one say or hear the things they were meant to. This was a grandios series of events with lots of heart and passionate care for the character.Looking forward to see if Owl ever gets his and what Matt does next. Thanks Chip. Great work!

excelent quality

Zdarsky's done some great work here. I won't go into the story too much, but Matt's struggle with faith and possibly going too far make for some great conflict. I was hooked from beginning to end.