Daredevil #597
by Soule, Landini, Milla
This issue is in two parts: in part 1, Wilson Fisk makes the announcement of his Deputy Mayor, Matt Murdock, who gets adjusted to his new office (he has a stack of backload documents to review -- and he doesn't get them in Braille, he has a reader to , and in part 2, Daredevil (almost) gets taken in by the authorities.
The civilian scenes are woefully under-colored and under-drawn, and the story suffers for it. A street comic like Daredevil deals very well with the stark colors of night and shadows, but during the day, solid colors are used too often to portray the realistic lighting of Matt Murdock's day job. Foggy is jarringly referenced off of Daredevil's Elden Henson, and the occasional panel of Charlie Cox's Matt Murdock and D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk elicits an uncanny valley that jumps you out of the story.
All said and done, it's a solid serial script, a little decompressed, with enough meat for 20 pages, and a cliffhanger to keep you going. And let's say it's a good thing Ron Garney will be back in 598.
by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Brad Anderson
This issue raises more questions then it answers. Where #2's back-matter focused on "The Supermen Theory," a theory that over 97% of metahumans are American because of government-sanctioned experiments, #3's back-matter focuses on the JSA, a team I'm not familiar with too much, so it goes mostly over my head.
Other different scenes play out, between Batman/Rorschach, the Mime/Marionette in a bar, and Comedian/Veidt. It's a setup issue built out of Easter Eggs for fans, so much so that cbr.com is even doing an annotation for the series, if you want to get anything out of it.
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