A review by crookedtreehouse
Ninjak Volume 6: The Seven Blades of Master Darque by Matt Kindt

3.0

I haven't been a massive fan of Valiant books with Master Darque as a villain. He's one of those He's The Ultimate Villain! characters that always manages to be beaten very easily. He also has a tragic back story that I remember reading in ... Shadowman? and which is repeated, in a condensed fashion, in this colume. He's still not super interesting here. But he seems more like a device to tell other stories than to serve as an actual threat. This is mostly the (I hope) conclusion of the Ninak pines for his dead girlfriend who is now a deadly, soulless assassin storyline. (See also Daredevil and Elektra.)

The volume starts out with a mostly wordless comic issue, which was fine, but didn't blow my mind. Then the Shadow Seven are reintroduced, and we get the brief Darque backstory before the story begins to truly progress.

It's a solid Valiant book. And even though I've only rated it a three, I do enjoy how it (please) wrapped up the previous volumes' storyarcs.