Daredevil Vol. 3 #28

This is issue #28 of Daredevil Vol. 3 (launched in 2011), written by Mark Waid, published by Marvel in July 2013, with interior line art by Javier Rodríguez and Álvaro López and a cover by Chris Samnee, totaling 22 pages. In the story, Matt Murdock is keeping company with his friend and law partner Foggy Nelson, who is hospitalized and undergoing chemotherapy for cancer; his hypersensitive super-senses bring extra torment in the hospital room environment. Back at the office, a visitor arrives: Nate Hackett, the person Matt feared most as a child, the school bully who tormented him back then. Hackett has now been arrested on a false charge and hopes Murdock will defend him and clear his name; in the past he ran with the racist hate group the Sons of the Serpent. Matt must handle both the crushing weight of his friend's serious illness and the complicated emotions stirred by his childhood shadow: does he believe this man who once tormented him, and is he willing to take the case? The issue's highlights center on the courtroom scenes and flashback passages, interspersed with fragments of Murdock's youth and his father; the pace is driven mainly by character work and legal argument, with little action. This issue also marks the first appearance of Nate Hackett. The volume as a whole is led by Mark Waid, with the tone of "Matt pulling himself together and returning to the sunlight," and he and the art team, with bright colors and light brushwork, reinvented this traditionally heavy character; it is regarded as one of the character's modern classic eras.