‘Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell’ HC (review)

Written by Charles Soule 
Art by Steve McNiven
Published by Marvel Comics
Released 2/24/2026

Every so often, Marvel Comics puts out something like this series that completely stuns me. Most of the comics these days that come from the company don’t really interest me anymore, but this one?

This was at the top of my reading list. It feels like Christmas came early this year.

Now I do wish the series had been a longer run, like maybe six issues. But with a creative team like this, it might be a bit more challenging to manage that many. So, I’ll take what we can get. And what we get here is pretty damn good overall.

Soule and McNiven take their cues pretty obviously from the Frank Miller run of Daredevil and the artwork especially from Elektra Lives Again.

Now, it isn’t a direct copy in the artwork, more that it seems McNiven took his inspiration directly from it. McNiven does his own thing with his inspiration for sure, but the influence definitely bleeds through. The story and art feel much like Old Man Logan too, but made just for Matt Murdock and his fellow cast of characters.

As the book start out, Matt Murdock’s powers are all gone. He is no longer the superhero Daredevil. He actually works for a soup kitchen here and is quietly going about his life. It is a little difficult to do that though because the world has basically ended. We hear rumors about a war that we never get to glimpse. It is a war that involved people with super powers. But that war is vaguely spoken about again, and the details are a bit unknown. The landscape and environment all show evidence of something major that came down in this world.

So that’s where we find Matt Murdock. Of course, Matt runs into some trouble and as a result, gets his powers back. It is a pretty exhilarating scene when this happens. But his powers being back may also be killing him. Either way he is on a limited amount of time in this world and he has to make the most of it. He comes across an evil scheme going on in this world as well and he has to stop it before more people are killed and he himself dies. It is a wonderful set up and writer Charles Soule really does pack a lot in with his writing in this book.

We get to run into some old characters. We get to see what happened to them. We also get to hear about characters who are no longer alive. And yes, Matt does run into Elektra again, and we get to see what her part in the overall story is. This was probably my least favorite part of the book, as I always feel Elektra’s arc ended when Frank Miller left the book and there hasn’t been much that is additive in bringing Elektra back. Soule and McNiven definitely don’t embarrass themselves with their rendition of the character but the story probably would have been the same with or without her.

Matt starts to look into the bigger conspiracy at play here.

It looks like he has to go up against an old adversary at the ends of things. Matt suits up for the challenge one last time and the resulting confrontation are really thrilling. I do like how the creative team resolved the entire story that they created here. All of the action is well done, and the character work is the best that it has been in a long time.

The last few moments of the book are especially powerful and impactful. If this were really the end of Daredevil comics, you couldn’t ask for a better ending. Daredevil sort of had two perfect stories now about the end of his character, both this and this series Daredevil: End of Days. Both really sum up the character perfectly, and give him a respectful and artistic send off.

For their book, Charles Soule and Steven McNiven knock it out of the park with this book. It is really well written and extremely well drawn. I feel this book was built to last and it certainly should. It is one of those books you can reread multiple times and always get something new from the experience. And that’s a good thing.

RATING: A