I’m each a lifelong superhero fan and a born and bred New Yorker, which implies that as this week’s Daredevil: Born Once more rolled out its model of Wilson “The Kingpin” Fisk’s rise to the workplace of mayor of New York Metropolis, I wasn’t excited about what this could imply for Matt Murdock. As an alternative, I used to be doing psychological math on how Wilson Fisk’s candidacy match into New York Metropolis’s electoral processes.
See, in New York, we do ranked alternative voting, which could indicate there have been different candidates extra excessive than Fisk on each ends of the spectrum. And if Staten Island voted closely for him, as one line of dialogue suggests, he in all probability ran as a conservative Unbiased or a Republican. And if he’s the 112th mayor of New York in a particular election, that may indicate that Eric Adams’ successor leaves workplace in an surprising manner.
All I can say is: At the least Marvel is letting us have somebody between Adams and Fisk. I don’t know for those who’ve heard, however New York Metropolis has its personal embattled mayor in the meanwhile. Adams faces 5 federal costs spanning conspiracy, wire fraud, bribery, and solicitation of contribution by a international nationwide — or he’ll except he complies with our present president’s coverage targets. Latest polling exhibits a majority of town thinks he ought to resign and fewer than 20% assume he’s reliable.
These are the nationwide headlines Adams is making, which may obscure lots of his weirder, comparatively extra minor statements, actions, and scandals, a lot in the best way {that a} common TV adaptation of a comic book e-book character can obscure lots of their lesser-known tales and traits. So, within the spirit of training any non-New York Metropolis-adjacent readers on the market about each comedian books and New York, right here’s slightly sport.
I’ve ready an inventory of issues Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin, has performed, stated, or had a scandal about; and issues Eric Adams, the precise mayor of the actual New York Metropolis, has performed, stated, or had a scandal about. I’ll have additionally tossed in a number of faux issues right here and there, simply to maintain it spicy. I’ll reveal the solutions on the finish of this publish, and you’ll see what number of you have been capable of get proper.
I have to apologize for mendacity: Ultimately, I didn’t really make any of those up, and they’re all actual. I’m sorry, however I’m additionally not sorry. I stay right here. In New York Metropolis. And there’s by no means been any scandal about whether or not I do.
I hope you’ve discovered all of this informative, amusing, alarming, or all three. I’ll be right here, counting the times till the mayoral major in June.
