WOOF WOOF! Hey guys, it's me Marcus aka the Maddogg, and we're back with another video
it's time for the next installment of the where to start series which is something that i've done
every so often on this channel where i take a look at a character or maybe a publisher or a team and
i just say what are the best books or the best media that you can watch or read so that you can
understand this character a little bit better not everyone who's a fan of the comics community knows
every single thing about our characters so i feel like doing this is going to be helpful to a few
people even if it is that a lot of people maybe already know a lot of things about that particular
character everybody has to start somewhere and when i look at my comics journey of how i got
to where i am today i think about the characters that interested me the most early on i had batman
i had spider-man i had the justice league i had the x-men but the one that really interested me
most was matt murdock the devil of hell's kitchen the man without fear it's daredevil himself but it
might be the case that you only know him from the netflix show or maybe just the defenders
or maybe you've only read a few issues where he's featured here and there so by no means am i gonna
say that this is a comprehensive list it's just 10 or so recommendations for my personal back history
of reading daredevil that i think would be good for a new reader the first recommendation i'm
going to give you is the frank miller run from the 1980s this may be hyperbole but this is
possibly the most important and influential story into modern marvel comics that there could be
when frank miller started on daredevil initially started as just an artist and then eventually took
up the writing responsibilities and similar to what he did with dark knight returns and
what he did for independent comics was sin city he just completely changed the way that stories
were told it became more graphic it became more darker and you have some of the most important
daredevil stories right here within this omnibus and trust me for a while this was the biggest
whale when it came to marvel omnibuses but you've got the introduction of electorate you've got the
most important bullseye stories you've got so much work that's gone into kingpin you have him
teaming up with black widow at one point and you see the way that they balance their relationship
the punisher also features throughout it so near enough everything that people could love
about daredevil pretty much started within this omnibus right here and the thing is this is like
the earliest one that i'm gonna recommend as much as i love the stan lee stuff i don't really think
it's too new reader friendly whereas this is one of the best ones on daredevil and it's one
of the best jumping on points as well as long as you know the fundamentals of the character
you can jump into this and it'll teach you more as you go along the next book that i'm going to
recommend is also done by frank miller but maybe you don't want to jump into a full run of about
30 or so issues and you just want something a bit more self-contained in that case i would
definitely recommend that you read daredevil the man without fear which is contained within the
companion omnibus i actually read the five issue mini-series before i read the full run so i think
that is one of the great introductions that you can have it's one of those stories that takes
place at the formation using matt murdock and he seems sort of learning his craft as daredevil and
you see how he becomes the character that he is today this pretty much rewrote the history
of daredevil and it's the reason why daredevil is the way that he is now sure i don't think
he explores as much of the universe as the full run does but for something that's self-contained
five issues long a great story great art and teaches you a lot about daredevil you probably
aren't going to get any better than the man without fear the next book that i'm going to
recommend is part of the anna chenti run and that is the last ride story arc fortunately
this is coming out as an epic collection and it should already be published around about now but
it's a shame because this is a run that went on for use and followed on from frank miller and
unfortunately it's just been forgotten about because of how prolific the frank miller run
was but there are some great story lines in here and i remember when i was getting into comics and
when i had to read them unlike the school library through a totally legitimate website this was one
of those runs that i read and really enjoyed and i didn't really know how it was actually divided
because i had to read it in single issues so i'm really glad that that epic collection's coming out
because now i know exactly what part of the story was that i like but this is the trial
of the kingpin even though he started off as a spider-man bad guy the kingpin is the perfect
antithesis to daredevil and here you get to see how he is when his pose completely removed and how
that affects matt murdock at the same time matt murdock's going through this kind of amnesia state
and he's learning how to become daredevil again so if it is that you don't know anything about
daredevil you can learn about him at the same time that matt maydock does as well it is a very
80s style of art so it might be best just to flick through this one and see if it is something that
you can get behind but if it is i do think this is quite good if you know some of the characters
within the daredevil universe maybe it's case that you've only watched the netflix show and
you're looking for a comic to jump into because i do feel that this is what season 4 would have
ended up being if we actually got it another kind of standalone thing that sets itself apart from
continuity but still gives you a good knowledge of the character within the mcu is going to be
daredevil yellow this is part of a collection of the colours series so you've also got spider-man
blue which personally was my favorite you've got hulk gray which can't really remember anything
about and you've got captain america white which i haven't brought because of the fact that i got the
early vision of this but this is from the absolute powerhouse team of jeff loeb and tim sale who did
other stuff like batman the long halloween it might already be the case that you've read some
stuff by this collaboration and you really like it so if you want that and you also want a daredevil
story this is going to be the best way to go this effectively is matt murdock telling you his love
story between him and karen paige but the same time you get the flashbacks to him and you get
to see how he interacted with his dad before his dad died and of course you get to see the
infamous yellow daredevil suit there isn't really too many instances where they use this because
the red suit's so iconic but it is quite good that they use it in this and it isn't just as a
gimmick it actually is a way of them telling their story and you do also get to see some appearances
from other characters within the marvel universe such as the thing and the fantastic four and some
of these lesser known bad guys are used as well like the owl so it's only six issues long it's
readily available to collect in different formats i think daredevil yellow is a great introduction
into the daredevil universe if it is that you haven't really read too much about him before
this one's just gonna get a quick special mention because it was the first time i ever saw daredevil
and that is spider-man the animated series from the 90s he did only crop up in a few episodes and
admittedly i haven't really watched them since i was a child but i think the way that they handled
this character obviously had some kind of an impact on me because of the fact that's the
reason why i liked daredevil when i wanted to start reading comics and as well this is purely
for nostalgia if you're somebody that grew up watching this series but maybe you didn't get into
daredevil as a result now might be the time that you should go back and revisit this entire show
because i still think it's great after that and it should go without saying that it's going to be on
this list because even though it is the most high profile daredevil appearance that we've had in any
kind of media i do think it's important that if you've never watched or never read any daredevil
you at least give the netflix show a try yes i understand that new enough 99 of anybody who's
possibly gonna watch this video has already at least heard of the netflix show but if you've not
read any daredevil not watched anything this would actually be the best way to get into this universe
even though yes i do think 13 episodes for each season is a little bit too much for the story that
they're telling i do think that this actually does modernize the story really well introduces you to
matt murdock and also the cast of the characters that surround him so foggy nelson plays more than
just a sidekick role karen page actually has some kind of character development you get one of the
best portrayals of any kind of comic villain in the kingpin and any great daredevil comic also
manages to balance the kind of inner struggle of matt murdock which is exactly what the netflix
show does so although yes some characters were chopped and changed a little bit or maybe they
weren't as important as you are in the comics or maybe the personalities were a little bit
different from what you're used to for something that is enjoyable on its own and does give you
the opportunity to springboard off it so that you can get into the comics i think the netflix show
is one of the best opportunities that you have especially when you compare it to something like
the ben affleck movie but before we get into the second half of this list where some of the biggest
recommendations are going to come if you're enjoying this video please give it a thumbs up and
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the second most important daredevil storyline that's existed after the man without fear and
that is kevin smith's guardian devil now yeah just full disclosure kevin smith loves to just
put words on everything at some points you'll think you're reading like an illustrated novel
rather than an actual comic but this came out at a time when daredevil wasn't a popular character and
nobody really knew what to do with him the 90s hadn't been favorable to him they just put him
in an armored suit which admittedly was cool but they didn't really do too much with it and it was
at the same time that the punisher was possessed by some kind of demon so they effectively did a
reboot of everything and they called it the marvel knights and daredevil was one of the biggest
selling series as a result of that this grounded matt murdock back into the position of daredevil
where he was just fighting crime and he was trying to battle with his own kind of disbeliefs that he
had with his own religion and even though he is a daredevil story this is most important for being
a matt murdock story it details more into the personal life of him which like i said every
great daredevil story balances to a certain point but this is possibly the one that had the most
everlasting impact when you look into the later series because i'm not going to spoil
it but there's something that happens in this that completely changes the course of matt mirduck's
life it changes the way that he looks at the world it changes the way that he handles himself
as daredevil and he is just one of those important stories but the same time as long as you know that
matt murdock's daredevil and you know with a few characters around him this is going to be a great
story for you that will also help you to just read straight into some of the later series that i've
also got on this list what i'm recommending next is actually a single issue about another character
but it also features daredevil quite heavily because i know that this is a character that a lot
of people like so if you're a fan of the punisher you should read punisher issue 3 that was part of
the marvel night series by garth ennis this is the rooftop scene it's where frank castle's got
matt murdock tied to some kind of chimney with a gun in his hand and he's trying to test matt to
see exactly what he thinks of his own beliefs how committed is he to his religion and his rule of no
killing what exactly does that mean and doesn't really have any impact i said it before that i
know that punisher is one of those characters that has kind of an appeal outside of the main comic
universe so if you're one of those people that knows a lot about frank castle maybe you've read a
few of his stories before and now you're trying to branch into more street level heroes even though
it is only one issue i think the third issue of god fantasy's marvel knight series is gonna be
perfect for you and let's be honest it's not gonna be too much of an issue to read one issue with a
story the next recommendation is gonna be the most recent one that's gonna make it onto this list and
it's the current run by chip zadarski i've had the first eight issues of this in singles and i'm
eagerly awaiting that oversized hardcore because i knew that it was something that i just wanted to
binge i know some probably want me to recommend the charles soul run but i haven't read enough
of that to fully point on this list whereas the chip said ask you run this was something
that for a little bit of time actually got me back into single issues it really feels like
the perfect combination between the frank miller run and the bright michael bendis run because it
starts off by using one of the troops that seems to run rampant within the daredevil storylines
which is that matt murdock and daredevil have been accused of a crime they've been accused
of killing someone and daredevil's got to try and clear his name with that at the same time with the
issues that are read it does work as a catch-up on what is happening with daredevil as a character
because if you've never read a daredevil comic before you're then getting one of those stories
that works within the present but it also gives you the details from the past that you might need
and as well this has been ongoing for quite a few years already so if you enjoy those first
story arcs and those first couple of issues you can then jump on and you can probably catch up
with this in single issues and then you'll be fully invested as a daredevil reader the next
book was actually the first book that i read with daredevil any and that is ultimate spider-man vol
18 ultimate knights this was written by brian michael bendis who is one of those pioneers of the
daredevil comic anyway but they did a little bit of a twist on matt murdocky he's a lot more darker
he doesn't really have as much patience for anyone and he actually seems like he doesn't want to be
part of this team and spider-man actively annoys him but spider-man is one of those characters that
every single person knows there is no way on this planet that you know who daredevil is but
you don't know who spider-man is maybe you've even read a few spider-man comics before he's a lot of
people's first superhero so it might be the case that you've read spider-man you know spider-man
so you can read this spider-man story learn a little bit about daredevil obviously it's not
really going to help you too much to jump into the main continuity but you can see the way that
he operates within the comic book universe and then you can maybe jump into one of these other
recommendations that i've got so think of this as maybe like a soft entry point or maybe it's
something that you can recommend to somebody else if it isn't they don't actually want to pick up
a daredevil book one of my final suggestions is going to be the mark wade run on daredevil that
ran in the early 2010s the reason why i think this is great for new readers is because of the
fact that it's a little bit more lighthearted than the majority of the other suggestions on
this list yeah daredevil is quite a dark and gritty character but they've tried to take it in
a different direction they wanted matt murdock to be more of an enjoyable character and they
wanted it to be a bit more light-hearted despite everything that's going on in this world you can
even tell that just by looking at the orphan paolo riviera but what this did was actually put you in
the shoes of matt murdock so as you can see here they often did these things where you saw the
world in the way that daredevil saw it and it took you on one of those great adventures that even led
to matt murdock relocating to san francisco the reason why i think this is great is because at
one point during the second hardcover there was a crossover between the avenging spider-man and
also the punisher so this is a run that's just fun throughout and it takes you on a journey with both
matt murdock and daredevil and you get to see them in different settings so if you don't want
something that's too intense too dark or maybe a little bit too bleak i'd recommend picking up the
mark wade run and see how that one treats you my penultimate recommendation is one that i feel like
a lot of people might not agree with me on but i really enjoy daredevil end of days the premise of
this is that daredevil is dead and it's about ben newrick finding out the truth of what happened so
yeah it might not seem initially that this is a great jumping on point for daredevil fans but this
effectively works like an elseworlds tale so you can see how other people view daredevil through
their eyes and ben ewick's such an important character and it feels for me like when batman
books tell a story about jim gordon so i do think this is great it's short it's only eight issues
long and it does work as a made a mystery so it's not something that's humane street crime level
fighting and this is written by brian michael bendis and i believe that this was the last
daredevil story that he told and it is kind of his send off for the character because you see him
collaborating with some of the artists that he's worked with throughout the past the reason why i'm
mentioning that is because i would not be able to do this list and i would not be able to sleep at
night if i did not mention the most pivotal and important run for me is both a daredevil reader
and a comic reader and that is the brian michael bendy's run of daredevil this has recently been
reprinted in the two omnibuses so there's absolutely no excuse to not pick this one up
and this was the first non-spider-man marvel book that i read and it's probably the only reason
that i've continued reading comics i think i was about 12 or maybe 14 when i first read this and
this completely blew my mind sure yes the first issue isn't introducing you to the character matt
murdock he isn't teaching yeah we went blind he isn't going to show you how he got his costume but
this just immediately sets off in fifth gear it's already going at 100 miles per hour and it just
gets better from there the pinnacle of this book happens and around the middle part of this story
i'm not going to spoil anything because i remember when i was reading it and i was reading it in
the six oversized hardcovers and i just had to buy the next one that i ran to the comic shop
just so i could see if they had it they didn't but that's a different story for a different day so
for me this was my first proper run of daredevil that i ever read and because of that that's the
reason why i'm sitting here today and being able to recommend all these books to you you also just
get some great stories with matt murdock on his own electorate you get to see how he interacts
with foggy nelson if i remember correctly jessica jones appears at one point in this
kingpin is a running theme throughout the entire book bullseye shows up and even stealth man gets
a bit of an appearance i absolutely love this book it's one of my top 10 favorite books of all time
i've read it in the last few years and it still completely holds up it's not just nostalgia
that's fueling this recommendation but from that book as well it will help you to get into other
daredevil books like the brubacher run which you can't really recommend on its own because
the way that this starts is an immediate follow-up to what happens at the end of the bendy's run
but this is also a great run and if you read that bendy's one and you like it you can end up getting
about 10 or so years of just great daredevil storytelling so there's so much potential for
you as a daredevil fan and a daredevil reader if it is that you want to jump into this character
as a result of the bendy series i regret nothing about that being the first book that i read for
this character and it's one of the main reasons why it's one of my favorite characters of all
time and it's the reason why i felt like it was important to do this where to start video
if you're somebody that's only read a few comics and you're wondering if daredevil's a character
that you should get into you really should there's so much depth and complexity to him and there's
just a wealth of great storytelling some of the best runs of all of marvel have been as a result
of daredevil and i normally tend to say this at the beginning of where to start but this series
is about recommending stories that will do the best for new readers so not everything has to
be an origin story but it just has to be a great story that introduces you enough so that you can
crack on and read it but also be so gripping that you don't want to move away from this character
and some probably will disagree with me and think i'm an idiot for some of these suggestions but you
know what that tends to happen on every video that i do lately but these suggestions are all
ones that help me love this character so much and hopefully as a result there's at least one person
who's watching this that will end up becoming a daredevil fan that's all i've got to say on this
video and hopefully it has helped some of you comment below with what you think is the best
daredevil storyline of all time or what exactly it was that got you into this character but as well
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