i'm almost as shy as i am glamorous

We sure can! What the heck is this?

Daredevil vol. 8 #2, lines/inks by Aaron Kuder and colors by Jesus Aburtov

so i was wondering: who’s mike murdock?? i’m assuming he’s either from a comic (alternate universe?) or a fan concept, but i’ve been trying to figure it out but bc most of the fandom is in hibernation leaving very few comic enjoyers to elaborate, i couldn’t find anything

mike is a real boy and we love him

ok so he started out as a lie matt made up in daredevil #25 back in the 1960s, as an excuse as to why he is not daredevil to the inquiring karen and foggy. no i am not daredevil, my twin brother none of you knew of is :). and he went on to character act good ol' mikey, until all the fake twin business got too complicated, resulting in matt killing off the mike persona.

now fast forward to 2018. up to now, mike was just a silly little thing that happened in the silver age that got referenced every now and then. but one day the daredevil writer charles soule changed this. by making use of the character the reader, an inhuman with reality warping powers that can make anything he reads into a real construct, brought mike to life as he fell asleep reading through daredevil's files. now mike is a real boy, and the silly little guy we knew evolved into someone painfully aware of his existence as someone who wasn't real to begin with. the silly guy is a tragic figure now.

he ends up stealing the norn stones, magical asgardian artifacts, from a criminal he was collaborating with at the time, because he felt tired and depressed of existing as a non-person, and with its power he makes himself into existence as if he had been real all along. now he is a Real real boy, but if the silly guy wasn't enough of a tragic figure, his desire to fill the gaps in his memories and to become a real person backfired with the pain of his father's death, his broken relationship with matt, and the guilt he carries knowing he wasn't real to begin with. and it gets worse because we as readers also have the tragedy of his potential not being fully realized in a lackluster comic run

hmm. that explains why people were so insistent that he saw red on that argument over his senses i saw. hate that!