Daredevil: Dark Nights #3 Review

Lee Weeks' Daredevil: Dark Nights tale comes to end and showcases a bit of what makes this series so special. It's a quick story, a done-in-three-issues tale that may or may not fit into Daredevil continuity. You can't worry about when this happened and whether or not it “matters” in the larger Daredevil narrative. If you can let go of that and just embrace the story and art, you'll find a pretty good comic book. It's exciting, action packed, and more than little melodramatic. Really, there should be more superhero books structured like this.

The best thing about this issue, and the two that came before it, is the artwork. Weeks truly delivers the feeling of a pounding blizzard on these pages. You almost feel cold reading it. There's a sense of hopelessness, like everything is just a minute away from being buried under a mountain of snow. Colorist Lee Loughridge adds to the atmosphere, giving lights a soft glow that barely break through the constant downpour of the white, fluffy stuff. Daredevil: Dark Nights looks mighty fine.

The story is a good one too, although it gets a bit convoluted in this issue. The simplicity of the race to find a little girl's heart is buried in a snowfall of characters and motivation. The first issue focused heavily on Matt Murdock's head injury and this one seems to all but discard that event. Of course, over-plotting aside, that last page is absolutely magical. Daredevil: Dark Nights #3 most definitely ends on one hell of a high note.

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