Connect Polish film-maker Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Marvel superhero Daredevil.

Before you say “Red” and spoil the mood, the answer is The Decalogue. Kieslowski’s 10-volume work influenced Brian Bendis, the current writer of DD, to come up with an a six-volume arc called The Decalogue, which chronicles a year in the life of Daredevil. Why six volumes instead of ten? Because it’s easier to sell six books together as a trade paperback later. This storyline is told from multiple viewpoints, and focusses on the period of time in DD’s life which Bendis had tantalizingly skipped over between issues 50 and 56 ( 51-55 were by David Mack, and the storyline had mostly nothing to do with the ongoing tale, and issue 56 began a year after the events in issue 50)

I have plans to pick up the last 10 issues of the Bendis-Maleev run on Daredevil, already have 26-70, and I have tried my best to stay away from discussions about the storyline of Decalogue – but some random surfing today led me to the covers of issues 71-75, and I just had to share.

Beautiful, no?