Comic Book Girlfriend: Number Two In A Series.
Comments Off | Posted: May 17th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
No man deserves a woman like Milla Donovan, especially not Matthew Murdock. Saved by the man also known as Daredevil when she nearly walked in front of a truck, the blind woman came to his office, thanked him for the whole truck-avoidance thing, then asked him out. Of course, Murdock didn’t want to admit that he was in fact Daredevil, as he was in the midst of trying to put the genie of his revealed identity back into the bottle, but he agreed to go out with her anyway.
It was during this first date that Murdock was dragged in as a suspect in the murder of a newspaper publisher he was suing for libel. Shaken by this, Milla was encouraged by her friends to give Matt a second chance.
Right after this, Typhoid Mary showed up and set Milla’s new boyfriend on fire.
Then, as if this were not enough of a hint, Bullseye popped by to pick up where he’d left off in the whole “murdering the women in Murdock’s life” thing – see also Elektra and Karen Page – but after Daredevil saved her, things went back to normal, at least until they got married. The nuptuals were held just before Matt assumed the role of Kingpin in Hell’s Kitchen and found himself at conflict with the Yakuza, other heroes, and finally his own failure. The stress from this, combined with unresolved issues related to the death of Karen Page, caused a mental breakdown in the hero that was the last straw for Milla.
She came back, of course, once he got himself back together. It was probably against logic and reason, but love isn’t known for its reliance on those concepts.
She didn’t sell his name to get an armful of heroin. She’s not a crazy ninja that came back from the dead or a schizophrenic, pyrokinetic assassin hired by The Kingpin. She’s not an alcoholic that’s going to commit suicide or a Russian superspy. She’s not Foggy’s Irish ex-girlfriend, nor is she a deaf Kingpin-hired assassin (yes, another one.) She’s just an attractive, assertive regular woman who’s patient and kind, probably too much so, in a world that doesn’t necessarily reward it. That’s why Milla Donovan is Comic Book Girlfriend #2.
