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When a catastrophe restores his enhanced senses, however, he leaps back into action.
Newsarama: How did you come to work together again after so many years?
Steve McNiven’s main cover for Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell #1.(Image credit: Marvel Comics)
We are always kicking around different ideas for stories to tell and this one spun out into interesting places.
We’ve both poured a lot of thought and sweat into this one to make it what it is.
I think it’s some of our best work.
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Charles, what drew you back to Matt Murdock again?
Soule:Daredevil is a character that’s almost infinitely malleable.
The trick with doing one of these stories is to put your own voice on it.
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Tell it the way only you could.
I hope so, anyway.
For me, I very consciously tried to avoid retelling something like Dark Knight Returns.
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As much as I love it, we’ve already got it.
Have you mined any past Daredevil storylines to create this dystopian vision of Matt’s future world?
Soule:That’s right.
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Bearing the title in mind, are you delving into Matts religious background?
It was interesting, too, because it’s not something you see attacked head-on with most superhero characters.
Soule:Look, the “What gets the hero back into the game?”
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question is one of the most important points on the road map for one of these stories.
Another is “Does he still have what it takes?”
Then you get “What’s he going to do now that he’s back?”
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All of those tie into Matt and his powers.
Soule:As the story begins, Matt is in what I’d say is his 60s.
Daredevil’s back, though the powers begin to fade immediately.
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He’s got 72 hours to solve the mystery of who set off the bomb.
Steve, how did you go about designing this older Matt and the futuristic world around him?
McNiven:Some of the earliest designs that I made were done before we had solidified the overall story.
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I had Matt much larger and bulkier initially but we decided that a leaner sinewy look worked much better.
Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell is published byMarvel Comicson April 2.
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