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A review by holmesstorybooks
Daredevil: Back in Black, Volume 1: Chinatown by Ron Garney, Matt Milla, Charles Soule, Clayton Cowles, Joe Caramagna, Rob Garney, Goran Sudžuka
3.0
I haven't really decided how I feel about this yet. Maybe I'll read all three and see how I feel.
While I thought the art style fit the series (lots of heavy blacks and reds) I felt a little underwhelmed by it. Somehow, I'd seen a lot of this before and usually, I love it, but it didn't hit the mark with me. But then, I figured, it fits the series so...?
The thing that stuck out to me the most was the fact that the stakes didn't feel like they were high enough. Soule can be a slow to start writer and this just didn't feel tense enough for me. However, Soule is an attorney based in Brooklyn and New York City so the Matt Murdock parts of the graphic novel had lovely details that really added to the whole piece. He was also really sassy and reminded me of the Matt Murdock from the Netflix series, which I love.
I loved Blindspot, Daredevil's new protégé. I won't spoil his character or background because part of the joy of reading the novel is finding out who he is but he is an illegal immigrant living in Chinatown and wants to defend the defenceless.
This feels so... pertinent to America today and I adore the fact that they wrote a character who is fully formed and treated with respect, not just a side character. I want a Blindspot comic all of his own pls. Blindspot is great.
I plan to continue with the series. Soule has a habit of making volume two what volume one should have been.
While I thought the art style fit the series (lots of heavy blacks and reds) I felt a little underwhelmed by it. Somehow, I'd seen a lot of this before and usually, I love it, but it didn't hit the mark with me. But then, I figured, it fits the series so...?
The thing that stuck out to me the most was the fact that the stakes didn't feel like they were high enough. Soule can be a slow to start writer and this just didn't feel tense enough for me. However, Soule is an attorney based in Brooklyn and New York City so the Matt Murdock parts of the graphic novel had lovely details that really added to the whole piece. He was also really sassy and reminded me of the Matt Murdock from the Netflix series, which I love.
I loved Blindspot, Daredevil's new protégé. I won't spoil his character or background because part of the joy of reading the novel is finding out who he is but he is an illegal immigrant living in Chinatown and wants to defend the defenceless.
This feels so... pertinent to America today and I adore the fact that they wrote a character who is fully formed and treated with respect, not just a side character. I want a Blindspot comic all of his own pls. Blindspot is great.
I plan to continue with the series. Soule has a habit of making volume two what volume one should have been.