DAREDEVIL #3

Review by: TheNextChampion

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Story by Mark Waid
Art by Paolo Rivera, Joe Rivera
Colors by Javier Rodriguez
Letters by Joe Caramagna
Cover by Paolo Rivera

Size: 0 pages
Price: 2.99

One of the hardest things I imagine a comic book writer faces is trying to bring back decades old characters in the modern universe. The ideas behind some of the early creations of Marvel are so crazy it’s got to be impossible to make sense of them for the audience. Sometimes a heavy reboot or different character all together is in order to get anything out of them. Give credit to Mark Waid though for doing none of that. He decided to go full gusto on resurrecting a forgotten villain with: Klaw.

Now I know nothing about Klaw from his powers to his origin (although a little research says it’s a Lee/Kirby idea). A pure 60’s character if I ever saw one, Mark Waid had the task to make the first real villain of this run be an obscure character. Waid is somehow able to make this idea work by giving us only glimpses of Klaw and how he works. In the beginning we see a complicated series of wires and other technology and little else. Then when Daredevil is fleeing away from Klaw we get little of how Klaw is actually fighting him since Daredevil is literally blind (he can’t see from his sonar vision) and Rivera designs the pages where we see little of him as well. So with that design choice Waid basically goes for the mysterious approach for the character and it really works in the long run. We get a great chase scene out of it and with that we go right back into the main problem of the arc with Murdock trying to get back his career. Without revealing much, Waid is going to do some interesting stories out of it and I’ll be amazed to see how far he can go with this new ‘career path’ for Murdock.

What else can be said about Rivera that hasn’t been said already? He opens the issue perfectly with a unique panel layout of the contraption Daredevil is stuck in. Plus the effects of the Klaw clones being slightly transparent is a nice touch. There’s also some great lighting effects in this from the ‘Klaw’ helmet to Daredevil’s busted sonar vision. Again it must be said that the creative team behind this book is practically flawless with Rivera, Rivera’s dad doing the inks, to Rodriguez’s beautiful color palette. It’s so gorgeous to look that, that it’s hard to think of new things to say in this review!

It’s only been three issues but I think that it’s easy to say this is the best Marvel title on the stands right now. No offense to the creators of FF or Journey Into Mystery but….well it’s really hard to compete isn’t it? Perfect writing with perfect art is one tough act to follow month in and month out. I don’t buy the idea that this book is the template for a ‘Marvel reboot’ to compete against DC. But if there is one thing to go with this title is that Marvel should pay attention to this title critically. If this is the best reviewed book for the company then there might be a reason for it. Which is: A care in writing and art and not throwing things together and call it a comic book.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent

Comments

  1. “Which is: A care in writing and art and not throwing things together and call it a comic book.”

    God, if that ain’t the truth! If Marvel cared about, and for, all of its characters and comics this well, I for one would be reading a lot more Marvel books. As it is, I really only read the ones you mentioned. (DD, FF, JIM.) This comic is SOOOO good.

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