miércoles, 9 de abril de 2014

Some thoughts about Daredevil #1.50

Celebrate Daredevil's 50th anniversary along with some of the most iconic writers that have worked on the character.

Tales from futures that could happen, tales from a past that might have happened, tales from realities that could exist. No matter what, Matt Murdock will continue to be fearless.

I must say that this is one of the best Daredevil issues in a while, each of these authors offered something different based on their distinctive writing syles but each one was competent at least.

First we have Mark Waid's story focusing in a possible future where Matt Murdock lives a much happier life along with his son. Waid's writing is completely on-point here, portraying Matt as a father who cares more about his son than himself just like what happened with his own father, the ending is a bit tragic but just like with the rest of Waid's run, there's always hope. Javier Rodriguez is in charge of the art for this segment and his work is stunning, it tells the story perfectly and the character moments are pretty powerful.

Now, we have the story written by Brian Bendis that concentrates in Matt's marriage and how it ends in tragedy just like most of his love life. Bendis uses a novelesque that while solid unfortunately it's not exactly what most people would want from a comic book. Not to mention that it doesn't exploits Alex Maleev's pencils to tell the story and instead focuses in just some images.

Karl Kesel's story works a bit better by portraying at perspective from the past when Daredevil was a much more lighthearted superhero and it creates a ncie contrast to the darker future stories while also giving a ray of hope to Matt Murdock. Kurt Kesel handles art duties here and his style is a bit dated but not bad.

Waid's story was the better of the bunch, followed by Kesel's and Bendis' respectively. This was a quite good anniversay issue overall.

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