David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil: Born Again: Artist's Edition - IDW Publishing
This comic and the main character Daredevil re-shaped by Frank Miller and re-animated by David Mazzucchelli in the mid 1980s, is probably the single most important story of popular culture reference/s that I can think of, in the sense that a comic book "hero" with all it's irrelevance and immaturity, needed to be de-constructed then re-born into a violent and unsettling experience that at times is our society. Miller utilized, with such mastery, his own perceptions of the 1980s, in a literal sense projected onto a character, as a transcription of personal loss, pain and redemption. An incredible journey. I don't think any artist could have matched Mazzucchelli's collaboration with Miller. His lines, with it's shadows of urban decay, isolation and collapse mixed with the flow and grittiness of its story telling. Nothing within the corporate 'comic book world', in my opinion, will ever come close to Miller's and Mazzucchelli's "Born Again".
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