Netflix Marvel's Daredevil TV Series - SFReader Review

I have to admit I was pretty stoked to learn Netflix was going to produce a Daredevil series. Daredevil has always been my favorite superhero, though I'd be hard pressed to say why. Maybe because he doesn't really have super-powers, just a bit of super perception and lots of training. It seemed that he was always the underdog and we all love to root for the underdog.

I read somewhere the DC comics are about superheros trying to be human and Marvel comics are about humans trying to be superheros. I think Daredevil is the embodiment of this approach.

Matt Murdoch was blinded as a child when he knocked an old man out of the way of a speeding truck. In the comic, the truck was carrying radioactive waste; the TV series has reconned it just just be some sort of chemical. 

In any case, said chemical/radioactive waste from the wrecked truck gets into Matt's eyes, blinding him, but at the same time heightening all his other senses. He can hear heartbeats from across the room, smell perfume from two blocks away, "read" a book with his fingertips by feeling the impressions of the ink on the page. In the comics, it's also explained that he has heightened body awareness, giving him extraordinary balance, agility and strength.

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