Daredevil by Mark Waid, Volume 1

Daredevil has traditionally been a superhero I don't really know/care that much about? Except for how amazingly terrible his movie was? Like... so terrible.

Anyway, though, this was on ALA's best graphic novels for teens list so I figured I'd give it a try. I liked it OK? I like the visualizations of how Daredevil's powers work. I didn't like how, within the first few pages, Daredevil kisses the bride at a wedding he's trying to protect and says he couldn't help himself because he liked her perfume so much? WTF DAREDEVIL?? That's not okay! So then the whole time I was expecting that to come back and bite him but it never did.

Apparently this is kind of a reboot with a more fun, fancy-free Matt Murdock b/c in the past he's been pretty angsty? The afterword said Mark Waid wanted him to be funny, but not Spider-Man funny. Funny he should say that because probably my favorite part of this whole thing was his teamup with Spider-Man and Black Cat. (His “teamup” with Black Cat, wink.) YO, I need to read more Spider-Man books, was basically my takehome message from this book.