Everything about this series is amazing. I especially love the little nods in the art to how Daredevil perceives the world. It's brilliant. ( )

A solid start to Mark Waid's run. I really enjoyed the effort by the artists, Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin, to depict visually what Matt's world and point of view is like--something inherently non-visual. I've already read Waid's 2014 Daredevil run, so I know a bit where Waid is taking this run and it's really interesting to see the groundwork being laid for certain plot threads. ( )

Mark Waid, el guionista que reinventó al Capitán América y dio un nuevo impulso vital a Los 4 Fantásticos, resucita al Diablo Guardián, con la inestimable ayuda de los increíbles dibujantes Paolo Rivera y Marcos Martín. Con nuevos enemigos, nuevos amigos y la actitud de siempre, Daredevil ha vuelto a la acción. Después de contemplar cómo su mundo se volvía un infierno en demasiadas ocasiones, Matt Murdock se replantea la vida de arriba abajo...

I was expecting a rocky or at least rough start to Waid's run, but really, he comes off strong right out of the gate with Matt still kind of coming to grips with his secret identity being out and supervillains threatening the regular folks of Matt's neighborhood in interesting ways. Rivera and Martin are a perfect match as well, and are clearly having a lot of fun with depicting Matt's powers. I had been really looking forward to reading this, and it was the right choice...too bad I gotta catch up on Hickman's Avengers now. :P ( )

Daredevil, Volume 1 collects issues 1-6 of Daredevil written by Mark Waid with art by Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martín, ink by Joe Rivera, colors by Javier Rodriguez and Muntsa Vicente, and letters by Joe Caramagna. These issues launched the third volume of Marvel’s Daredevil in 2011, originally appearing between 20 July 2011 and 30 November 2011. The story begins shortly after Matt Murdock returns to New York City following his possession by the Beast of the Hand in Andy Diggle’s Shadowland storyline from September – December 2010. His secret identity exposed, Matt Murdock had departed the city, leaving Black Panther in charge of protecting Hell’s Kitchen during the Black Panther: The Man Without Fear! storyline from February – November 2011. Now, Matt’s back, having worked to finesse his secret identity back though people still ask him if he is Daredevil.

In the first three issues, Matt reveals his more upbeat attitude after the literal hell he endured, working with Foggy Nelson as they represent a man who was a victim of police brutality. It looks like rumor’s of Matt’s secret life will derail their case, until Matt learns that there’s more going on since someone doesn’t want their client to spend his potential court award on buying back his family’s electronics business. Meanwhile, Captain America appears to arrest Matt for the crimes he committed while possessed by the Beast of the Hand, but Matt reasons with Cap for an extension, in which time he finds a sound-shadow of Ulysses Klaue, the supervillain known as Klaw, that seeks to use the electronics shop to build a device capable of retrieving Klaw’s sound signal. The next three issues focus on Matt and Foggy working to teach clients how to represent themselves, thereby circumventing the possibility that opposing council will bring up his connection to Daredevil to derail the case. This leads him to fight Bruiser, who works as a fixer for Midas Investments, a group using shell companies to arrange foreign registries for megacrime shipping.

Waid immediately demonstrates his mastery of writing Daredevil, balancing the events that came before with the new direction he planned for the series and his is especially well-served by artists who can match his description of Daredevil’s world. Rivera perfectly depicts “radar” images of sound for Klaw’s half-formed sound-shadows and the dimensional holes of the Spot. Martín similarly compliments Waid’s writing and had helped shape the Marvel Comics’ style of street-level heroes like Daredevil with his earlier work on Spider-Man alongside Dan Slott from 2008-2011. The end result is an all-around phenomenal Daredevil book! ( )