Daredevil: The Dark Art - (Daredevil: Back in Black) by Charles Soule & Roger McKenzie (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Enter MUSE! The saga deepens in this brand-new edition of the essential source material behind Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+.

After a crushing courtroom defeat, MATT MURDOCK's life as both attorney and vigilante are thrown into turmoil. But the true nightmare begins on the streets of Hell's Kitchen, where a string of gruesome murders leads to the debut of a terrifying new villain: MUSE - a serial killer who transforms his victims into grotesque "artworks."

As DAREDEVIL confronts this sadistic mad man, a price is suddenly put on his head--drawing BULLSEYE and a host of the city's deadliest assassins into the hunt. And looming above it all is the fight of Matt's life: a case that takes him to the steps of the Supreme Court, where the fate of his secret identity hangs in the balance.

With #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule and Eisner Award-nominated artist Ron Garney raising the stakes at every turn, The Dark Art cements itself as a chilling and essential chapter in the saga that inspired the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again.

COLLECTING: Daredevil (2015) #10-28

Want more? The story concludes in Daredevil: Death of Daredevil where the KINGPIN rises to become Mayor of New York City.

Written by Charles Soule
Penciled by Ron Garney, Goran Sudzuka, Marc Laming & Alec Morgan

About the Author

Charles Soule is a New York-based, #1 New York Times-best-selling novelist, comic book writer, musician, and former attorney. While he has worked for DC and other publishers, he is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics (Star Wars, The Rise of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader, Poe Dameron, Lando and more), and his creator-owned series Eight Billion Genies and Curse Words (with Ryan Browne), Undiscovered Country (with Scott Snyder & Giuseppe Camuncoli), Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque) and the Shrouded College series (with Will Sliney), which began with Book I: Hell to Pay in November 2022.

His first novel, The Oracle Year, was released in April 2018 by the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins. His second novel, Anyone was released in November 2019. His third original novel, The Endless Vessel, arrived in June 2023.

Charles is a creative consultant for Lucasfilm, Ltd, and one of the founding architects of STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC, a multi-platform Star Wars saga kicked off by his #1 New York Times' best-selling novel Light of the Jedi, released in January 2021. In addition, he worked as the legal consultant for the 2022 Disney+ television She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law.

Having begun his career on G.I. Joe, Eisner Award-nominated artist Ron Garney is known for well-received runs on Captain America and Amazing Spider-Man. He has teamed with writer Jason Aaron on Wolverine, Wolverine Weapon X and Ultimate Captain America. Garney has also contributed design work to such films as Will Smith's I Am Legend and Nicolas Cage's The Sorcerer's Apprentice. His later Marvel work includes Uncanny X-Force and a collaboration with Charles Soule on Daredevil. Garney reunited with Aaron on Thor: God of Thunder and then the creator-owned Men of Wrath for Marvel's Icon imprint.

Croatian artist Goran Sudzuka is a comic-book artist and illustrator known for his work on Y: The Last Man, Hellblazer: Lady Constantine and Wonder Woman. With writer Jamie Delano, he co-created DC/Vertigo's Outlaw Nation with writer Jamie Delano, which earned him the Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer at the 2001 Eisner Awards. He has also worked for DC, Delcourt, Image, Marvel and more.