SOURCE: Blackmore, Tim. “Blind Daring: Vision and Re-vision of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrranus in Frank Miller's Daredevil: Born Again.” Journal of Popular Culture 27, no. 3 (winter 1993): 135-62.

In the following essay, Blackmore offers a comparative analysis between Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrranus and Frank Miller's Daredevil: Born Again, remarking that both works share the theme of the common man as hero in society.

                              … why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd? 

John Milton, Samson Agonistes

                    Now I adore my life With the Bird, the abiding Leaf, With the Fish, the questing Snail                     And the Eye altering all; 

Theodore Roethke, “Once More, the Round”

Despite the enormous gap in time, form and method, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (CA 430 B.C.) and Frank Miller's graphic novel Daredevil: Born Again (1989) are strikingly similar creations; each reexamines the idea of “common” man as hero in society. The comparison of these works begins...