Lilly Lucca pays a visit to Matt's wife, Milla, at the behest of Mr. Fear and triggers a psychotic episode which results in Milla beating her nurse within an inch of her life. Matt beats the location of Mr. Fear out of Ox but finds Mr. Fear is always one step ahead of him and The Hood finally gets Mr. Fear one-on-one.

This is part 5 of the current 6-issue story arc, "Without Fear" in which Ed Brubaker continues the work Brian Bendis started on this title by reinventing another member of Daredevil's fairly lame rogues gallery, Mr. Fear. Having resolved the years-long 'exposed secret-identity' storyline in the previous arc, Matt's life is pretty good at the beginning of "Without Fear" but a rash of violent crime in Hell's Kitchen heralds the return of Mr. Fear who has a new drug to push and revenge on his mind. The drug turns its users psychotic and completely without fear and Mr. Fear administers it to Milla, who pushes an innocent bystander in front of a train whilst under it's influence.

The current Daredevil series tells its stories in neat little six-part stories, just right for collection into trade paperback and trade paperback is probably the best way to read it. One thing Daredevil does do, though, which I wish more titles who use this format would, is give the first page entirely over to a text recap of the story so far.

There's a lot of angsty, Frank Miller-esque, internal dialogue from Matt in this issue as he's pushed into extreme and desperate measures to find Mr. Fear and save Milla from both the effects of the drug and prosecution. It's probably the single biggest weakness of the story arc for me as I've never really bought into Matt and Milla's relationship. She's certainly no Karen Page or Elektra. As a result, Matt's rage at the treatment of Milla seems a little forced and by the numbers.

There are four artists credited with drawing this issue with no clue given as to exactly who contributed what. The artwork looks a lot like it usually does from regular series artist, Michael Lark, and if I hadn't known there were four artists I wouldn't have guessed anyone else contributed. Lark is a perfect fit for this book, his style is grounded somewhat in reality. Matt really does look like a guy in tights when he's in costume and there's no cartoon musclemen or unlikely proportioned women on show. His depictions of Hell's Kitchen really evoke the setting but despite this, even the most outlandish characters don't look out of place.

Brubaker's Daredevil has a lot in common with his Captain America. He's able to take traditional superheroes and give them a more grounded feel, where Captain America is presented as espionage-meets-superheroes, Daredevil is more crime story-meets-superheroes. Brubaker's Daredevil has a very street-level feel to it, there's very little in the way of superpowers on show and even the more ridiculous characters are presented in a very serious and sober manner.

Daredevil is arguably the best regular MU title currently being produced, in fact, only Captain America really challenges it. If you're already reading this in singles then you don't need me to tell you to keep reading it. If you're not, go back and start picking the trades up. The stories read much better in one go.