Previous Post I picked up the New Avengers Volume 1 HC book recently. Read the new Bendis introduction ...... He LIED!!!!! Matt Murdock was suppose to join the New Avengers as Ronin!!!!! Reason it was shelved and changed was due to Bendis leaving Daredevil and Brubaker taking over taking the character into a different direction.

> I picked up the New Avengers Volume 1 HC book recently.
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> Read the new Bendis introduction ...... He LIED!!!!!
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> Matt Murdock was suppose to join the New Avengers as Ronin!!!!!
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> Reason it was shelved and changed was due to Bendis leaving Daredevil and Brubaker taking over taking the character into a different direction.

I think they should have gone with it. I would really have liked to DD on that team. With Echo as Ronin, it just seemed to fall flat. I don't see why it would not have worked with Brubaker's story. DD was in jail for awhile but we don't know exactly when or for how long. When he got out, he spent some time overseas and it would make sense that he would need to have another identity for a bit.