R. C. Ripley’s Reviews > Daredevil Omnibus, Vol. 1 > Status Update

After a brief hiatus, I’m finally back to reading this one. Just finished the one with the Beetle. Daredevil over here doing flips like he’s part of the Cirque du Soleli.

Out of the short - but brazenly fantastic - run of Romita Sr. and stepping into the Colan run. I got to say, the art is something else.

John Romita, you son of a gun. Slowly drifting away from the soap drama-esque office romance between the three, and more focus on Daredevil and his athletic like abilities, and as a crime fighter that works with the law - finally establishing that characteristic that modern iterations have followed suit.

Goodbye, Wally Wood. Your run will be remembered. The way I draw Daredevil is solely because of you. Now, entering Romita territory, and I'm still partial to the fact that he belongs solely to Spider-Man titles. But, we'll see.

Wally Wood 'Red Suit' era in play. Things are picking up in pace, and Daredevil's overall character is fundamentally taking shape as we speak. Outside of the undeniably campy 60s allure to the current issues, I can't help but deny how creative this book is - both in practice and on paper. From the environment, to the legal stuff, to the quips. Great.

Silver age Daredevil is literally a 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon in the making. It's so funny to think that 10 to 20 years down the line, only till then we'd have the Daredevil that we know of today.