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Daredevil #16 Review


By Dan Horn
August 6, 2012 - 17:19

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Matt Murdock, AKA Daredevil, may have successfully offloaded the Omega Drive that had made him global crime's most wanted and he may have outwitted and escaped Dr. Doom, but Matt's problems are only beginning, for as Hank Pym, Tony Stark, and Stephen Strange rout out the nanobots that have put Matt into a coma, the blind lawyer's personal life is crumbling.

In another gracefully scripted and exquisitely illustrated installment, writer Mark Waid and company craft a brilliant caper, which plays jubilantly on comic book tropes, serving to balance the sensationalism and dynamism of the medium's past with a fresh, modern perspective and relevance, and succeed in punctuating it with a profoundly personal apogee. The reveal at the end of this issue has been telegraphed somewhat for the preceding two months, but it's a testament to Waid's emotionally charged script that I still found that reveal incredibly gripping.

Of course, the success of Daredevil hasn't hinged on Waid's contributions alone. The current Daredevil series has seen more than its fair share of virtuosic artistic revelations, and has benefited greatly from every single one of them. Artist Chris Samnee and colorist Javier Rodriguez continue that inimitable line of artists to work on this title. The two turn in a Jack Kirby-meets-Gabriel Ba chef-d'oeuvre, an eye-popping, thickly limned, Technicolored romp, full of engaging detail and surprising subtlety.

If you're not reading Daredevil, then you need to start. It's really that simple.

Rating: 9.5 /10


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