Charles Soule and Steve McNiven, the team behind Marvel’s The Death of Wolverine, will reunite a decade later for Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, a miniseries offering a dark future for the Man Without Fear.
Set in a future Marvel Universe on the brink of collapse, the series introduces a “grizzled, older version” of Matt Murdock — someone more akin to Old Man Logan, another character McNiven knows well.
“I know whatever idea I write is going to be executed masterfully by Steve, and that level of trust allows you to take a lot of risks,” Soule said. “It’s been a really interesting process because the way we made it is something I wouldn’t do with an artist that I didn’t have this level of collaboration and trust with. We’ve been working on this book for four years, and that time has been well spent.”
Marvel shared more details on what to expect from the story:
Years into the future, a powerless Matt Murdock is no longer Daredevil, but he’s still the Man Without Fear! Doing whatever he can to help those in need in a city broken beyond repair, he’ll finally be able take the fight to where it matters most when something catastrophic happens causing his powers to miraculously return. With no one by his side, Daredevil has little chance against the evil permeating every corner until Captain America entrusts him with a mission to safeguard the world’s only hope…
“I started out by going why are not more people learning from Frank [Miller] and the storytelling he does,” McNiven said. “I was inspired by his work on Dark Knight Returns. To a certain degree, the structure of a 16-panel grid forces you to do different storytelling techniques.”
Look for the first issue to arrive in April of next year.