The Fantastic Character Renaissance Continues!
I'll tell you what, Marcos Martin is gonna have a hell of a time following Paolo Rivera. I don't know if letterers usually handle the onomatopoeia, but this book pays more attention to it from an artist's perspective than almost every other comic. Most books just try and make the words seem loud or quiet with size and loud colors, but Rivera understands that Daredevil really feels sound. His onomatopoeia looks like what's going on. Loud clangs are big. The creak from pushing the shield into the ground looks like it's bending and creaking under Daredevil's weight. The thunk when Matt drives Cap's shield into the wood floor looks like it, too, is being driven into the floor. I said it last month, but these little details are what make this book feel right. Another reviewer I like (correctly) calls this verisimilitude, defined as the quality of realism in something. As a reader I see this and think, yes, the world is being shown to me through the Daredevil sound lens. I have an intense love for art reinforcing narrative.
I also have an intense love for effective use of shadows, but that's enough praising Rivera.
Mark Waid's interpretation of Daredevil is just so fun to read. Matt is clever without delving too far into Peter Parker levels of quipping and his dialogue has a strong lawyer motif, which...yeah, right? Matt is a lawyer by trade so he should kind of talk like one. His compliment toward Cap's shield is also spot on. He compares it to something that makes music. I'm driving this point into the ground, but this makes perfect sense.
I was also a fan of the way that Foggy and Kirsten McDuffie interact. Very cute. Very fun.
Look, I could gush for hours about this book and how brilliant it is, so I'll stop here and say that you should be reading this comic. It's one of the best things Marvel is doing right now.
