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Daredevil
Ninja #2 Daredevil/Spider-Man #2 A study in contrast here, with the Bendis/Haynes three-issue mini adopting a widescreen approach that uses color wash, while the Jenkins/Winslade four-part mini goes for the packed panels and thundering color. Daredevil Ninja seems a bit thin overall, despite Bendis' writing -- kidnapped in the first issue, Daredevil wake sup in Japan, and gets a bit nuts. Eventually, the plot is explained to him, he gets annoyed and runs off. He gets caught up with, and there's a bout of ninja violence. End of act. The sketchy art style and muddy colors don't really add anything -- it looks less like an attempt at paraphrsing Japanese style than something executed as swiftly as possible. The storyline, involving the Hand, pretty much leaves me cold as well. The Jenkins/Winslade story is one of those that keeps lots of balls in the air at once -- there's the lightly dueling personalities of DD and Spidey, both trying to accept growing up, the ongoing story between the Kingpin and Daredevil (here Matt Murdock is pushed into representing the Kingpin even as his alter-ego has to accept dealing one-on-one with Fisk), and the basic story involving an unlikely quartet of villains: Gladiator, Stilt-Man, Owl, and Copperhead. Winslade's kinetic art suits the story perfectly, giving it a driving energy -- and, sometimes, a nice subtle humor (as with the double-page layout that has DD swinging hither and yon about the skyscape, all pensive, to alight in front of Spidey, relaxing upright against a service door, who tells him, "Show-off.") Overall, a nice solid team-up story, but one that will probably play best in the inevitable trade paperback (as, doubtless, will Daredevil Ninja.) ©2000 by Steven E. McDonald |
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