Credit to BleedingCool.com for the forthcoming joke.  You’ll see.

Its not Avengers vs. X-Men or Fear Itself or any other cross company story line that has all the fans loudly exclaiming that one title above all others is THE book to buy.  It is good old fashioned great writing, great art, and a super hero story that never forgets for one panel to entertain.

Daredevil is the latest hero to encounter the Moloids in the past couple months and no one would blame the fans for feeling like the mole people were about to become the next Skrulls.  Lets put them everywhere, over expose them as a threat, and continue this plot device until the fans cant stand these villains.  All of this could happen, if the writer was less capable than Mark Waid.  The Moloids will seem different because the readers are experiencing this story through Matt Murdock.  Daredevil should “see” the world in his own unique way, and that should not be how Hulk or Spider-Man or anyone else sees the world (or underworld in this story).

The other part of this unique world view is thanks to Paolo Rivera on pencils and Joe Rivera on inks.  (Hell, lets also mention Javier Rodriguez with the colors and YC’s Joe Caramagna on letters.)  Never before has Daredevil’s senses been portrayed so well.  This applies to the gifts and the limitations.  Those things that lurk in the shadows have a gift of blending into the background, and wouldn’t a rocky hide bounce a radar signal as if it is, well, rock?  Most Daredevil stories have been written without really thinking about his blindness and extra senses.  There is not one page in this comic that forgets, even for a panel, who and what is Daredevil.  I felt blinded reading this.  The blacks close in and all that is left is a thin red outline of the Man Without Fear.  Its frightening.  Its also brilliant to get the reader to feel claustrophobic and this creative team made me feel buried alive.

All of this is wrapped around the overall story of the series, the various groups trying to get the disc away from Matt Murdock.  Black Cat is a lot more fun as this morally shady character.  She is as faithful and as loyal as her options.  She can not be trusted as a partner, and I don’t mean that only in a Marvel Team-Up kind of way.  Black Cat is sex incarnate.  She deserves her own MAX series, but that’s a little difficult when there’s no way Spider-Man would be allowed to appear in a rated R title.  She is such a complicated character and the tension her scenes in this issue is so thick you can taste it.  You can even smell it, ain’t that right DD?!

Oh.  Oh my.  Matt I would have taken your word.  Kudos I guess.

(Update:  Full credit to BleedingCool.com for the picture and for the joke.  I forgot to throw in a link.  Which is a damn shame.  I love the site, I’ve been a fan of Rich Johnson since Lying in the Gutters.  They also have one of my new favorite bloggers, Grace Randolph.  If you like my site you will love theirs, and I’ll be sure to credit not only Rich but anyone else out there.  We’re all trying so hard to get a little bit of attention (and with that some money) that it is rude of me to not credit, promote, and share the links that I love.)