DAREDEVIL #307: Matt's powers are terrible

[starwolf_oakley]

DAREDEVIL #307 is the start of the "Dead Man's Hand" crossover with NOMAD and THE PUNISHER. It starts with Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson going to Las Vegas. And Matt has a seizure because his super-powers are just the worst.

The story is by D.G. Chichester and the art is by Scott McDaniel. The art isn't as "cool" as his later DAREDEVIL or NIGHTWING work.





A joke about "passing out the second you leave the airport" was done on "Absolutely Fabulous." Patsy, Edina and Saffron go to Morocco, and Patsy and Edina pass out the second they leave the airport. And I just linked Daredevil to "Absolutely Fabulous." I love this board.



This was before Foggy found out "The Secret."

Admittedly, some of this puzzles me. It gets really hot in Manhattan, right? Probably different from the heat of Las Vegas. Still, Matt's powers suck. He keeps it together with D.G. Chichester's narration. I consider Chichester an underrated Daredevil writer, even though he could go a little overboard with the narration.



Jack Monroe and Bucky, his adopted daughter who wears a domino mask. Comics in the 1990s were strange.



Stuff like this happens to Daredevil and you think "How do Matt's powers NOT drive him crazy?" Fan explanations over the years usually involve Stick. "How does Matt go to sleep? He enters into a special trance Stick taught him."

Most of the story is various Marvel crime groups meeting in Las Vegas to divvy up the Kingpin's empire after he "vanished" in DAREDEVIL #300. Matt and Foggy are there because Foggy handled some of Wilson Fisk's legitimate businesses after BORN AGAIN.

Comments

[zachbeacon]

I know people like to poke fun of the movie but Matt sleeping in a sensory deprivation tank seemed like a pretty good idea to me.

[starwolf_oakley]

The sensory deprivation tank, which isn't in the comics, is where the "To sleep, Matt enters a special trance Stick taught him" fan theory comes from.

[katefan]

Yeah if there was anything from that film that I liked it was that tank.

[cygnia]

I don't have super senses and Vegas drove me nuts with sensory overload -- I can empathize with how bad it must have been for Matt.

[razsolo]

Yeah I remember being overwhelmed in the casinos there...mind you I also nearly got run over gawking in times square first visit so maybe I have hyper-senses too lol ;)

[viridian5]

Summers in New York City can get up into the 90s and it's often a humid heat. Otherwise, I can believe everything else in Vegas might prove to be a bit too much for him at first.