Daredevil #501 review

Daredevil, written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Micheal Lark was one of my faveorite books. However when i read it, the Lady Bullseye and Return of the King arcs, i couldn't help but feel that Matt Murdoc didn't spend enough time as Daredevil and the writing never seemed clear, everything was wraped up in mystery to the very last issue and the resolutions were always quick. In Daredevil #501, Andy Diggle aviods many of these traps and establishes not only what Daredevil will be doing as leader of the Hand, as well he makes it feel like the co-stars of the series, Foggy and Dakota aren't just waiting around for Murdoc, but doing things of their own, which i felt wasn't in Brubaker's later Daredevil work.

The writing in this issue is strong, maybe even stronger than Brubaker's, everything flows well into eachother in the issue, and Diggle sets up his story well. One complaint I have is that the sacrifice if Izo feels a bit like a way to get rid of a character you don't want to write about, instead of incomperating him into the new story arc. The way Murdoc behaves in this issue and Izo, being quite familiar with the Hand seems a bit unbelieveable, but this is, even if it doesn't seem so at times, a superhero comic, so I can't complain too much.

The art in this issue, by Robert De La Torre, is quite exceptional. Compared to Micheal Lark's Daredevil work, i would rank this higher. Lark, has generally better proportions and more accurate backgrounds, but the way De La Torre picks his angles and how he gives expression to his faces, makes him the better artist for Daredevil. Scenes with the Kingpin and Lady Bullseye make Old Wilson Fisk look like and old man, think about how long he's been around, who's lost his way in the world and is trying to get back at his enemy one last time, the way Izo is drawn, you could nearly believe he was hundreds of years old and Foggy looks like how a lawer who fired his bestfriend from his law office, and has now realized that same man is running around with a group of ninja assasins. Ontop, the cover looks beautiful, and the colours have a powerful tone to them.

everything in this comic comes off perfectly, well aside from Daredevil's legs looking strange in a scene. This is a great version of Daredevil and I hope the quality in Diggle's run is the same as it is in this issue. For fans of Daredevil, or superhero comics in gerneral i higly reccomend that you read Daredevil #501.

9.0/10