An all-star roster of creators is lining up for The Man Without Fear! Daredevil: Dark Nights is an eight-part series packed with incredible talent. Lee Weeks has a well-deserved place in the Daredevil creator hall of fame for his work on the Last Rites (with writer D.G. Chichester) storyline from the 1990’s. Now Weeks has written and drawn this story of Matt Murdock and a young person near death in a New York blizzard. Marvel shared a first look at Weeks’s story Angels Unaware and the long journey of this story:
“There are two distinct things I remember being the genesis for “Angels Unaware”; one, I’ve felt the state of the hero in general, and Daredevil, specifically, had ventured into darker waters than what I remembered. I wanted to find a story that revisited simply what it is to be heroic.
Two, I had a scene that popped into my head, independent of the previous thought. The scene was comprised of a series of ground-level horizontal frames with Matt, having been mugged, lying face down in the snow while people are passing by but not stopping to help him. We see only their shoes, but we can derive something of their societal status by the shoes. Finally, a different pair of shoes—torn and tattered, duct-taped together, worn by a large grizzled guy—only these stop right in front of him. Is he going to be mugged again? No, instead, this guy bends into frame, gathers Matt up, and carries him off to be attended to.
It’s the age-old idea that appearances can be deceiving; it’s the inner man that matters. And, as much as we want our heroes to be heroic, I think there’s something powerful in realizing that even with all that power, nobody is doing this alone. Nobody does life alone—at least not successfully!
The story sat in a drawer—actually, a hard drive folder—at Marvel for two years. Then editors Steve Wacker [and] Tom Brennan called me and said the previous Daredevil editor, in the transition process, told them about my story and they wanted me to do it.
Daredevil: Dark Nights #1 debuts June 5th. For the entire interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
By Editor