Wilson Fisk has given away the dossier he had on Elektra so that it can be used to learn from her abilities to her weak points. Something that Kraven the Hunter can take advantage of. panini continues with the last bits of Chip Zdarsky in Daredevil.
what does not kill me makes me stronger
We all have skills in which we excel while in other competitions we are weak, it is the most normal. Both physically and intellectually and even emotionally. But on many occasions what we believe weakens us can be what motivates us the most to improve ourselves, for which we fight until exhaustion, even leading us to sacrifice other things of lesser importance or to give everything, even life itself. That is why weaknesses fluctuate, we adapt, reinforce or shield them so that when the time comes they are not so weak or become our best weapon.
For Elektra Natchios, that weakness can clearly be the figure of Matthew Murdock, whom we know as the man of her life, in many ways, above the figure of her late father, whom she always loved and had on a pedestal, despite his darker face. But if Matt were in danger or in need of help, she would be there, not to be one more, to defend herself like a tigress with sharp claws, to find the solution to the problem or simply to be the lap on which Murdock’s tears fall. . What is necessary and when it is necessary.
alone and principled
When Elektra set herself up as the guardian of Hell’s Kitchen and put on the Daredevil costume, customized in her own way, without disguising that it was a woman who was hiding under the costume, she adapted to Matt’s rules, she eliminated the points sharp edges of their sai and left them blunt like the staves that the Guardian Devil already habitually used. She has mentioned several times, since she became Daredevil, the time she would have saved by being able to eliminate contenders instead of simply rendering them unconscious or powerless to fight but she has remained true to the oath she took.
Now, when she faces the Hunter, she has no outside help (the Devil’s Reign has everyone busy) but she doesn’t need it, she continues to learn to know herself, she has protected even her deepest secrets, whatever they may be. be the price to pay with your loved one. She now has the reins of the situation and whatever Wilson Fisk kept among her papers is no longer a problem, she has freed herself from it, and has all her skills to manage it in the best possible way. any contingency.
When drawing is not just art
Seeing what Rafael De Latorre does in this episode is worth framing. He does not teach us one or two incarnations of Elektra but even a third. We have the woman she is today, unwrapped between the sheets next to Matt, the one who wears the red and black uniform of her representation of Daredevil, so plastic in her movements while fighting, and a third that takes us back to the moment in which He said goodbye to Matt after the death of his father, much younger, with a look softened by the hard time he just went through, almost lost, but with wounds that have not yet healed and have already left a lesson learned.
It’s because of comics like this that we’re going to miss Chip Zdarsky in Daredevil. Steven Murray, born in Edmonton, Canada, back in 1975 (come on, like the one who writes to you, he’s my fifth!), Has carried out one of the most memorable stages of the character along with Elektra. Many will say that he does not reach the level of Frank Miller and I will not argue, but if he is with Brubaker at least.
Although Murray is known worldwide under his pseudonym Chip Zdarsky only for the facet that encompasses comics, both as a writer and cartoonist, and any other story, he deserves to be recognized under any of his facets, because rarely has so much inspiration been seen to narrate how he does it, to intersperse flashbacks with moments that take place in the present, to weave a hooking web, which ends up leaving the reader hooked until the following month, the example of how it is worth buying a staple month after month, managing to be exceptional for three consecutive years.