A review by trike
Daredevil by Mark Waid, Volume 2 by Mark Waid
4.0
This collection is kind of all over the place, which I find typical of Waid's writing: when he's bad, he's very bad, but when he's good he's really good.
So ignore the clumsy cliched Christmas opening that's supposed to make you feel good but does the opposite because it's so damn clunky and focus on the rest of the book. There are more ups than downs overall, hence the 4 stars.
The artwork is handled by a number of people and ranges from competent to good. I dislike it when artists give Spider-Man expressions via his mask, such as narrowing his eyes to slits or making them extra wide. That's cheating and aggravatingly lazy. You need to stretch when you're drawing Spidey, using body language to its best effect. Relying on a mask that has the equivalent of sunglasses sewn into it to relying expressions annoys me and takes me out of the story. On that point, Paolo Rivera's art was off-putting, which comprises the majority of the volume.
Fortunately the story and dialogue carry it past the at-times lame artwork.
So ignore the clumsy cliched Christmas opening that's supposed to make you feel good but does the opposite because it's so damn clunky and focus on the rest of the book. There are more ups than downs overall, hence the 4 stars.
The artwork is handled by a number of people and ranges from competent to good. I dislike it when artists give Spider-Man expressions via his mask, such as narrowing his eyes to slits or making them extra wide. That's cheating and aggravatingly lazy. You need to stretch when you're drawing Spidey, using body language to its best effect. Relying on a mask that has the equivalent of sunglasses sewn into it to relying expressions annoys me and takes me out of the story. On that point, Paolo Rivera's art was off-putting, which comprises the majority of the volume.
Fortunately the story and dialogue carry it past the at-times lame artwork.