I liked Milla, too, and really hate that she's been pigeon-holed into the lost love category of Matt's life. Seems to be no woman that can hold onto the Man Without Fear without dire consequence.
At least, the next arc promises to put Matt back in the courtroom some, so it might not be so grim for a short while. We know there will always be the whump factor.
Some variety in the whump would be nice though. I mean, they have done the "villains attack girlfriend/wife and/or Matt's friends" over and over again. I'm not good at inventing plots, but there have to be more creative options to torture Matt, if not totally new then at least something that hasn't been done in a while. Say a villain messing with his super senses so that he has to deal with being a regular blind person for a while and can't fall back on Daredevil to live out his rage, doesn't know whether his sonar will ever be back, that would be plenty angsty, for example without killing or injuring his loved ones.
I honestly think that Milla will be back at some point, and that she's not actually being written out of the book in any way (though I could be wrong, of course). I loved #105, and thought it was one of the best single issues of Daredevil I have ever read, but I don't agree with those who say that Matt has to be in a tortured state of mind constantly for his stories to work, and I'm sorry to see Milla essentially gone from the pages of Daredevil
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Huh, I thought it was the same gas (though different from the one in Lily's system), and that the reason Matt hoped Milla would recover was that he overcame the gas' effects, but I could have read that wrong.
I agree that Daredevil doesn't really explore Matt's blindness, but I'd like if it did. It's true that when dealing with disabilities as major plot point there's plenty of room to put their foot in the mouth for writers, but I think from a critical viewpoint having a blind character and then quickly negate almost all practical consequences through the superpowers gained at the same time, isn't really better or unproblematic in the first place.
I would like that too (re: the blindness), and I'm sure it could be done well, that is not as a major plot point, but as something incidental that is sprinkled throughout the book in places where it's relevant. For me it's always been kind of a logical fallacy on the parts of (most) writers to always pretend as if his other senses fully compensate when good ol' common sense tells us that this simply cannot be (although there are many fans who scoff at the idea that Matt is in any way disabled...). I fully acknowledge that his radar sense makes him less than totally blind, but the idea that a complete lack of color vision, for instance, would not effectively be a pretty severe visual impairment is really strange to me. On the other hand, I really like how Brubaker deals with this issue. Well, he doesn't actually deal with it in any obvious way, but he's not in complete denial like some writers have been.
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At least, the next arc promises to put Matt back in the courtroom some, so it might not be so grim for a short while. We know there will always be the whump factor.
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I agree that Daredevil doesn't really explore Matt's blindness, but I'd like if it did. It's true that when dealing with disabilities as major plot point there's plenty of room to put their foot in the mouth for writers, but I think from a critical viewpoint having a blind character and then quickly negate almost all practical consequences through the superpowers gained at the same time, isn't really better or unproblematic in the first place.
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