I finally figured out one of the things that’s so different about Daredevil as written by Brian Michael Bendis: No thought bubbles. Ever. There are internal-monologue narration boxes, but no thought bubbles.
Huh.
I really wish they’d go the next step and just, you know, print extremely mild cuss words if that’s what the characters are saying. Having the assassin go “kick his @$$!” knocks me right out of the narrative; it looks like he’s trying to slip through a message-board word filter, and it’s not exactly fooling anybody. The kids who read Daredevil at this point–when it’s mostly about organized crime, issues of identity and mental breakdowns–are not going to be scarred by the word “ass.” Why did Marvel ditch the Comics Code if it was just going to pull shit like that?