Daredevil #12

"Dancing with Fire" is a great summary of Matt and Elektra's relationship. Zdarsky, Chechetto, and Wilson take their connection further as this creative team approaches the end. Do not miss this issue, as it sets up a huge showdown that'll have Daredevil fans talking. Read Full Review

SummaryDaredevil #12 is a poetic masterpiece. Read Full Review

Checchettos art is fantastic. The fight between Matt and Elektra had the visual beauty and style of a dance being played out on the page and the final moments of the issue were visually satisfying and exciting to see unfold. Read Full Review

FINAL THOUGHTSChip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto deliver an emotional and thrilling comic book with Daredevil #12. From beginning to end we see how Matt Murdock's journey led him to make the decision he made to enter his final fight. The way Elektra Natchios and Sam Chung factor into Matt's final decision was excellently crafted. It all leads to reminder of why this is one of the best comic books on the market. Read Full Review

Daredevil #12 continues to tie the series themes together as Zdarsky closes in on the end of his run. Anyone who doubted this runs effectiveness, as indeed these reviews did at one point, can be reassured by these last two issues. Read Full Review

Matthew Wilson's beautiful rendering of cherry blossoms amidst the violence makes for splendidly sincere melodrama. The stage is set for one last fight and Zdarsky & Checchetto's spin on Daredevil is still throwing haymakers. Read Full Review

Daredevil #12 sets Matt Murdock on a road to Hell, and the results are memorable. It's unclear how Zdarsky plans to wrap up his run on the Man Without Fear, but the setup for the forthcoming finale is turning out to be a wild ride. Read Full Review

Oh, Daredevil. You've jumped the shark. Read Full Review

KittyNone

Jun 07, 2023

This run has been so incredible that it's almost a cliche at this point to say how good it is, but this issue really drives home what makes it so good. Daredevil is often paired and contrasted with Spider-Man and the Punisher as his good and evil twins. Obviously the way his engagement with both moral and judicial laws makes him different from the Punisher has been done time and again, but it's really the contrast with Spider-Man that's revealing: whereas Spider-Man is cursed by "the ol Parker luck", a confluence of bad outcomes from unambiguously good actions, Matt Murdock is a man who makes his own luck — which makes it damning that all his luck is so bad. He's a tragic hero in the classical sense, a good man who will inevitably fai l as a result of his own flaws. As Elektra so perfectly puts it in this issue, "A pious narcissist". Perhaps nobody, not even Miller/Mazzucchelli or Bendis/Maleev, has understood this so well or communicated it so perfectly as Zdarsky/Checchetto have in this run. Matt is, and will always be, a man who can imagine and even achieve Elektra's salvation, but deep in his heart he'll never be able to believe in his own. And so he'll always be damned, not because he deserves it, but because he can't imagine himself going anywhere but Hell. I could go on all day about how beautiful and tragic the romance is, about how exquisite Checchetto makes every single panel, but the heart of why I love this comic (even when it misses a bit, as with the Goldy arc) is that Zdarsky & Checchetto just *get* this character, and why his inevitably half-futile actions can be so gripping in the right hands. I don't envy whoever is going to have to follow this. more

Forever_Knight82

Jun 10, 2023

This was one of the best books I have ever read. The art was mind blowing the story was gripping and the emotions that you felt where just WOW. My only thing is why does this have to come tonan end?? Well we will find out here in the next 3 books.

cincyfan

Jun 10, 2023

This is absolutely phenomenal with brilliant writing and beautiful artwork. This has been one of my all-time favorite runs on daredevil and I really don't want it to end

Toonstrack

Jun 15, 2023

Perfection in comic book form. This is why we read. This is what I'm here for and why I'll never leave. I really wish I could say more to explain this feeling but I can't. This is cinema. This is art. Its beautiful. You see all those tens? They're legit. They are real. When I started reading Zdarsky daredevil it was my first real run on the character. And yet.... I feel like I've been here for ages. Everything, his past present and future all comes to this. If you've ever been a daredevil fan... even if you've not even started this run. Do it. From the beginning. Its worth it. And see me back here.

Hobgoblin

Jun 19, 2023

Many others have encapsulated my thoughts. Fantastic issue. What DD is all about. Bravo Chip, Bravo.

Hailey

Aug 22, 2023

That costume at the end is rad.

Linkush

Jan 21, 2024

I… don’t know what to say… this is the best issue I have ever read… it’s perfect. And the art… best I’ve seen in a comic book. Wow… I’m speechless.

Afre

Jun 07, 2023

It's epic. Just epic.

sawright20

Jun 08, 2023

Stupendous. Tragic, beautiful, disturbing—Zdarsky and Chechetto are going out with a bang. Also I’m so happy we finally got to see Blindspot again! I thought he’d be forever ignored.

Ryan

Dec 05, 2023

Insane issue. Bad last couple issues but Im so glad this run acknowledged Blindspot and gave him purpose

Avanvolk

Sep 28, 2025

Finally an issue that gets back to the quality that Chip is capable of but hasn't been meeting for a while. This was a really cool issue, and the art was fantastic. It was awesome to see Blindspot again, although I gotta say...as incredible as Checchetto's art is, he didn't do a very good job of making Sam look Asian... I noticed the same thing when he drew Kirsten McDuffie too...she didn't seem to have the slightly darker skin tone she's supposed to when Checchetto drew her. Maybe he just has a hard time drawing races other than black and caucasian for some reason? I don't know.

daspidaboy

Jun 11, 2023

a very fun and good issue right now. Great art and writing. I cant wait to see how this ends.

CrazyforRAMU

Sep 12, 2024

It's an elegant and powerful chapter thanks to all-around formidable storytelling. Death is rarely permanent in comics, particularly not in this franchise. The script makes enough nods and hangs enough lampshades on that to establish awareness without compromising the drama. Of course, the real tragedy is that the lack of true death cuts both ways. Even if Daredevil wins big, his win is unlikely to be permanent. Quibble: I maintain that "Daredevil fights Elektra and it's a sexy dance" is an over-used cliche. This is one of the most beautiful executions of it, though.

K-23

Sep 11, 2023

Checchetto's art is amazing!

Kenjamin

Jan 05, 2025

Art: 4.5/5 Story: 4/5 Total: 8.5/10

Liberty K

Jun 28, 2023

Another fine book by Zdarsky, but can we stop trying to "drag" Matt "lower?!" I need to be able to root for my heros, and it's hard to do that when I know their writers have it in for them! (Wells, I'm looking at you!)

DDJamesB

Jun 13, 2023

Am I the only one who didn't think this was the best thing ever? I'm a huge fan of this run, but I did not feel the connection with this issue. I found parts of it to be really well crafted. I just can't put my finger on why I didn't love it.