happened to appear in.

Not to get too pretentious about my own work, but my feelings about DD and New York are summed up in the last line of Fall From Grace: "And the hero and city belong to each other." There are few other characters in comics you can tie so closely to a local, *if it's done right*: Batman is the other obvious one, although his relationship with Gotham is adversarial.

New York's edge-of-the-seat attitude goes hand in hand with DD's "daredevil" qualities. A perfect match, and I constantly found the city itself a bottomless well of story ideas. To treat NY as a "generic" city in the DD universe is either laziness on the part of a writer working on the character, or sheer ignorance of thetrying to build up a rogues gallery with nasties like the Snakeroot and System Crash to fill that void.

Mithra: What do like most about the character? the least?

Chichester: His morality. There's a quality of redemption to DD: both his own, and what he generally offers to the other characters he encounters. Along with the relationship to the city, it's a very rich environment for a writer and a reader. He's generally a somewhat more "mature" character, while also preserving the wild adventure that makes action comics so much fun.

The least? The almost complete lack of support he enjoys within his own company. Frankly, your web page is about one thousand times the level of promotion DD's ever seen from Marvel.

Mithra: Most Daredevil fans know you and Scott McDaniel