Comic Review: Darevil(2019-) #14

Daredevil(2019-) #14

Marvel Comics

Writer: Chip Zdarsky

Art: Marco Checchetto, Francesco Mobili & Nolan Woodard

Yet another chapter of Daredevil is upon us and it is new and exciting whilst delivering us a good discussion about the law like any Matt Murdock-esque person would love.

This issue picks up pretty much where #13 left us, with Detective Cole North and Daredevil actually having a conversation over a cup of coffee. They have a serious discussion on what the law should be and its current state in Hell’s Kitchen. Cole North gets schooled on “the right thing to do” by yet another masked vigilante. We then cut to Wilson Fisk and get to see how he’s processing his new friends from New York’s richest are not as receptive as he’d expected.

Chip Zdarsky storytelling is, as usual, one of the finest we get to see these days in the comic industry. Not only he manages to sneak some of that snarky Zdarsky humor (please, notice me, Chip), but he also brings out forth the moral dilemma embedded in the superhero genre in the best Daredevil fashion. Zdarsky keeps the reader interested especially with the pacing of the story’s progression going from Daredevil, to Matt Murdock, to Cole North, to Fisk, to gang leaders and back again maintaining a good idea of what’s happening on all sides of the same amazing story.

Marco Checchetto and Francesco Mobili took over the traces for this issue and it is stunning as ever. The team description of the human anatomy is wonderfully mixed with the style presented and make every page a bliss for the eyes. Not only that, but the way motion is presented is very elegant as well ranging from simply deforming a tie/strand of hair to blurring the character mid-movement in order to reflect speed.

The coloring for this chapter was done by Nolan Woodard and it is beautiful! The artist presents incredible consistency over his lighting on each scene but the choice “more mundane” color palettes for scenes that don’t involve masked characters versus the choice for eccentric ones for the scenes with Elektra and Daredevil highlight the contrast in Murdock’s dual life.

Ever since Zdarsky was announced for the Daredevil title, we got excited. This issue, which puts the writer along with a fantastic group of other artists lives up to that excitement fully. We have a good story, good conduction and great artwork to feast our eyes upon. Definitely worth picking up if you enjoy a good comic and even more if you consider yourself a Daredevil fan.

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