Daredevil Annual # 1 - aptly titled 'One More Day ', a reference to a story that magically changed Spider-Man 's life forever - brings less and less of Matt Murdock fictional brother Mike Murdock in great shape, magically imbuing him with a true story and fully creating him in the real world as Matt's flesh-and-blood brother.
What does that mean? Well, c 'is a bit complicated, given the evolutionary nature of Mike Murdock.
Mike Murdock was first introduced in the Silver Age as a fake alternate identity that Matt Murdock sometimes used to hide his secret Daredevil identity, telling people his twin brother Mike wasthe protector of Hell 's Kitchen - at least until Matt tampers with "Mike". died, explaining that he had formed a new Daredevil before he died.
Matt Murdock occasionally used Mike Murdock's identity over the years after killing his fictional brother - but in Charles Soule 's 2018 Daredevil run, the writer introduced Mike Murdock to the Marvel universe as a human ... sort of.
When the inhuman alias Reader, who has the power to manifest his thoughts in reality, was reading about Mike Murdock, he accidentally created a "fragment" - a shell of a person who acted like a real human, but ultimately is a false construct with false memories and a fabricated personality.
(Image credit: Marvel Comics) Although Mike and Matt Murdock first clashed, Matt did chose not to allow Reader to get rid of Mike's "shard", leaving Mike to live and escape.
Unfortunately for Matt, Mike faced his nemesis the Kingpin, ultimately falling into it with the magical villain, the Hood. That's where Daredevil Annual # 1 comes in.
As part of the year, Mike and Parker Robbins (a.ka. the Hood) pull off a heist with Mike The resemblance to Matt, whose face has become known throughout New York City sinceis that Matt was briefly his mayor.
(Image credit: Marvel Comics) In the process, Mike steals a Norn Stone - a reality-modifying Nordic artifact the Hood once used - and uses it to perform a ritual to make himself fully human, inserting Matt's twin brother Murdock, Mike Murdock, in his story, showing a hiRecently revised life story for Matt Murdock which involves dealing with his brother's criminality even in his life as Daredevil - including Mike's potential involvement in their father's death.
Following his plight, Mike is left in tears on the floor, feeling, perhaps for the first time, the full emotional weight of being a real human being.
The story continues in Daredevil # 22 , expected September 23.
Chip Zdarsky spoke to Newsarama about what all this could mean ahead of the release of Daredevil Annual # 1. As to how Mike Murdock's introduction might affect the title, hethere is already a change planned to come, with artist Mike Hawthorne joining the team of creation in November .
