It’s also about friendship, specifically Matt’s friendship with Foggy Nelson, and how this remains a major cog in the Daredevil story despite their tensions and disagreements. It scores, though, with honesty and realistic rendering of how emotions like grief and love can drive us and leave their mark on us. The writing lacks that ‘loving feel’ for Daredevil that Miller has (this is Loeb’s first and last outing on Daredevil to date) and is more of a tribute to Daredevil’s creators. It’s about the early days of Daredevil rather than a re-imagining like Frank Miller’s version. It doesn’t start at the very beginning when Matt loses his sight, but rather with his father Jack’s boxing career and murder. To process his grief after Karen dies, Murdock/Daredevil pens a series of letters telling Daredevil’s story in flashback. Yellow centres around Matt Murdock’s relationships with his first love Karen Page, his father Jack Murdock, and friend and business partner Foggy Nelson. It’s a companion piece to their previous Spider-Man and Hulk stories, titled respectively Blue and Grey. The earliest work of Stan Lee and Bill Everett on the character is the basis for this story, written by Jeph Loeb and pencilled by long-time collaborator Tim Sale, with yellow the favoured colour. Yellow is not so much a reworked origin story of Daredevil than it is a homage to that original story, when in Daredevil first outings his costume was predominantly yellow.
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