Matt probably always thought Foggy had a mustache, maybe a giant Yukon Cornelius-style one.

There should also be a word for when you enjoy a character, but every so often you just throw up your hands and get completely fed up with them. Like today's book! From 1985, Daredevil #222, "Fear in a Handful of Dust..." Written by Denny O'Neil, pencils by David Mazzucchelli, inks by Kim DeMulder. With the swamp on the cover, I also would've bet the cover price that Man-Thing was gonna be in this one. 

On a flight from Ireland to NYC, Irish supporting character Glorianna O'Breen attempts to stop a hijacking, and a stray bullet hits a passenger's metal box, releasing a gas that causes the passengers and later the flight crew to panic. I know I've read other comics with Glorianna, and, well, all I remember is she's Irish, because she has a thicker comic-book brogue than Banshee or Siryn...put together. In a Lucky Charms commercial. On Saint Patrick's Day.

Earlier--wait, earlier? "Meanwhile" is traditional, "Earlier" is an odd-duck. Recently-separated Foggy Nelson has just shaved off his mustache, and accidentally asks Matt what he thinks, before remembering his best friend is blind, and has been since they first met. Ugh. They get word that Glorianna's plane had crashed in the Jersey swamps near Tinderville, where the hijacker had been trying to force the plane to land. At the crash site, a cop tells Matt Glorianna was one of the three passengers not yet accounted for, along with "a Dr. Sadd and a local man named Junius Mudd." Sadd and Mudd? Matt is busy brooding over another of his women dead, after Elektra and Heather Glenn...it feels like there's a lot to unpack there. I'm not sure Glorianna was "his," for one thing; did they have a relationship? Or is this just his guilt acting up? Glorianna was actually the niece of Foggy's wife Deborah, who also shows up: Foggy seems to expect this to lead to their instant reconciliation, but she has her new guy there. Deborah also knows Matt is Daredevil...I am not positive that plot point was cashed in before Miller returned to the title for "Born Again." Also, I thought Glorianna and Foggy had the relationship?

Changing into Daredevil, Matt takes off into the swamp, out of what seems to be stubbornness, a refusal to allow Glorianna to die. DD isn't alone, though, as he's joined by the Black Widow! She was on the trail of Dr. Sadd, who had a sample of Mr. Fear's gas. Sadd had worked with Soviet powers to refine the gas, but falling out with them wanted to sell it to "a certain government agency," probably S.H.I.E.L.D. Matt and Natasha are out of their element in the swamp, but now something is up. Nearby, the third man, Junius, catches up with his kinfolk, as he's brought them "couple prizes. Gal and the man I was hired to kill." It goes Deliverance immediately: Junius brought Glorianna for brother Drawley. Too bad they'll have to kill her after the honeymoon: Glorianna would probably prefer before; Drawley doesn't seem that particular. Having become a professional killer after the army, Junius has an idea: maybe Dr. Sadd might be worth more alive.

While DD and the Widow free themselves from snare and mud traps, and discuss Matt's dead-women problem; the Mudd's let Glorianna change into their mom's wedding dress, which gives Sadd the chance to get a cannister of fear gas. After a wedding sermon, he releases the gas, driving them all mad with fear. Holding their breath, DD and Widow smack down some of the Mudds, before having to stop a raving and knife-wielding Glorianna. As the last two Mudds attack, Dr. Sadd takes off running, but trips and breaks a cannister of gas, and realizes the antidote wasn't effective before. They find his body, dead of a heart attack, but Natasha notices the cannister he broke had a bullet hole in it already, it wouldn't have had any gas, and Sadd scared himself to death. 

Right before blogging this, I just read a current issue of Daredevil, where the imprisoned Matt agrees to risk his life for a sting operation, but refuses any plea deal to reduce his sentence, and I threw up my hands and swore at the comic. Not everything has to be so hard, Matt; and not everything is about you. Which can be hard to imagine, when two old girlfriends and an old foe's invention collide in a throwaway story, true.