Magdelena/Daredevil Reviewed
DD is my bro.
I've like DD since I was a little kid. He was always my favorite since growing up on the JRJR issues. Going back and reading them now I see they are a little anti-establishment and nauseatingly liberal but I soaked it all in like a sponge. The Typhoid Mary run is what hooked me. Seeing DD beaten to a pulp and then slowly come out of it. What a great character.
I have been satisfied with the latest DD efforts in his own book. But satisfaction does not equal excitement. DD is probably 10th or lower on my To-Read-First-When-I-Get-My-Comics List which was never the case, DD was always first.
I was looking forward to this issue for many reasons. Upon opening the cover I was pleased to see that they started out right. What did they do right you may be thinking? Senses. Here's a thought for the DD creative teams from over the last 8 years....have DD use his hypersenses! Phil Hester gets it dead on, both in his writing and in his art. Every DD writer should read his opening page to get a sense of how DD senses the world:
"To his heightened senses each snowflake whistles by like a wind-whipped pinwheel"
"Each falling crystal gouges a path across his field of awareness like the glare of a moving flashbulb."
"Every one of them an errant satellite broadcasting a stream of interference."
"The sounds of a dozen crimes rise to his ears. A hundred more echo from the police radios below."
Perfect DD!
However, it was somewhat strange to be reading about a blizzard when it is 85 degrees out my window.
So you have your company crossover staple here...mistaken identity between heroes who think the other one is at fault so a short fight ensues before they come to their senses.
The gist of the story goes that there were these evil men back in the day (way back) and when they found a demon. They kept the demon (wouldn't you) and found they could cast a spell that would allow them to take all of their sins and place it on the demon making it a true scapegoat (wouldn't you) by literally writing their sins on the demon's skin. So this demon of course escapes their purgatory in 2008 and then wants to payback retribution to the descendents of the evil dudes that wrote all over his back. In this story he steals a little girl and DD and Maggie are on the hunt.
I highly recommend this book if you, like me, have been so thirsty for a Daredevil comic that looks less like photos and has some real action. So much so that I would be willing to read something called Daredevil and Beppo the Monkey.
Truly I would.
Now check out these guys in the background flipping off ol' Hornhead! Woot!
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