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Oh, I'm not reverential for the 80s stuff—it was Bendis/Maleev and Brubaker/Lark who brought me into the fandom in the early 2000s. There's plenty of ninja lore in those runs, too, though it's definitely balanced out with more standard crime noir and villainy. The Netflix show seems to take a lot of cues from the…

Because Daredevil and ninjas go together like peanut butter and jelly. At some point, you gotta accept the source material for what it is. Throwing out ninjas means throwing out major threads in Daredevil's world (and making characters like Stick and Elektra rather irrelevant).

Elodie Yung is a black belt IRL, though. They hired her partly for her martial arts background. Not every athletic body type looks ripped in the traditional sense.

Release dates for Netflix shows aren't usually announced until the season's within 2-3 months of dropping.

According to Steven DeKnight, Marvel Studios made a deal to "borrow" Ben Urich from Sony (who owned film rights to him as a Spider-Man character), but only for a single season.

I'd agree with the "drudging necessity" bit if the navel-gazing weren't straight out of the comics. All the moral conflict and speechifying is part and parcel of the Daredevil stories that most influenced this show; the writers were just being faithful to the material. So faithful, in fact, I almost couldn't believe…

lol sure, that's why I can't log into Tumblr anymore without immediately seeing 5 gifsets in a row of Matt Murdock, and then maybe six of Charlie Cox. The MCU fangirls don't know what hit 'em.

I feel like a broken record lately recommending the Bendis/Maleev run to everybody but really, if you love this show, that's what you should probably read first. It had the most influence on the tone and visual style of the series, as well as the characterizations of Matt and Foggy. (Not to mention, I'm pretty sure…

"Snyder wants viewers to ponder Superman as a moral being, but someone really needs to tell him (and Nolan) that superheroes—impossibly powerful, infallibly good—are maybe the least appropriate vehicles imaginable for moral inquiry."

Pretty sure Melissa Rosenberg has been quoted as saying the "Alias" comics are her inspiration (she's been trying to get a Jessica Jones show off the ground for awhile now).

Actually, with the show being on Netflix, I wouldn't at all be surprised if Marvel lets it be as dark as it wants. There's no need to cater to a broadcast network's marketing needs or wishes. That, and the press release freely uses words like "gritty" and "flawed" to describe the characters and the tone of all 4…

So, you were never so into something as a kid that you felt compelled to decorate your room with it? I'm sorry. By the time I was 13, my bedroom contained evidence of approximately 25 different fandoms.