Comic Review: Daredevil #606

Daredevil #606

Marvel Comics

Writer: Charles Soule

Artist: Phil Noto

I think this has been one of the more consistently good runs that Marvel has had since All-New All-Different started a few years ago. I’m sure there’s been one or two, but I can’t remember a bad issue off the top of my head. Coming after two very strong story arcs, this issue is as solid as the rest and sets up some interesting things.

No longer the interim mayor of New York, Matt Murdock/Daredevil is once more trying to take down Wilson Fisk. Former Kingpin of crime, and current mayor, Daredevil overheard Fisk discussing how he rigged the election. Not having concrete proof, Daredevil begins to put together a team to help him find the evidence.

That’s the main part of this issue. Daredevil contacts the Inhuman/former NYPD detective Frank McGee for help, and Frank brings in more familiar faces, Reader, an Inhuman, and the X-Man Cypher. Charles Soule created both Frank Mcgee and Reader, so they’re the same as they’ve been. No wild personality changes or anything like that.

The story itself is interesting. It’s a little slow, but that’s for the best. It’s the start of a new story arc, and the one before this was a big affair. Between Daredevil’s detective team assembling, we see Daredevil thwarting a bank robbery. It’s all a standard superhero fight until extra henchmen take members of a watching crowd hostage. Daredevil stops the robbery, and no civilian gets hurt but only because one of them fought back against their attackers. At first, I thought “that’d never happen,” but this is the Marvel universe, so that random civilian is probably an amateur vigilante, and this is a common occurrence for him.

The art by Phil Noto is pretty good. The action scenes are done well, the costumes look good and the color throughout is well done. For about half of the comic though, the faces look off. Not entirely bad, but they don’t look good. They’re just a little too line heavy, I think. It gets better in the rest of the issue, but the first half is kind of noticeable.

Overall, this is a good issue. Being the start of a new story arc, it moves a little slow but has an ending that’ll keep me hooked. Besides a few weird faces, the art is pretty good, and the action comes across well. I’m not soured on the Mayor Fisk idea yet, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Charles Soule resolves the whole ordeal. If you aren’t reading this series, you should be. It’s been very consistent in quality, and this issue is no different.