Daredevil #11 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marco Checchetto (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters)

The Story: Daredevil tries to recapture the Omega Drive from Cole (Alves?).

The Review:  The Omega Effect has been a really nice little crossover.  It’s small, contained, and went across titles that worked well with each other.  If you enjoyed the previous two issues, you’ll enjoy most of what’s offered here.  Seeing Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Punisher kick Megacrime ass together is about as entertaining as you’d expect.

The real heart of the comic, however, is in Daredevil’s interactions with Rachel Alves (why does everyone, including Marvel, keep calling her Cole when the character explicitly calls herself Alves?).  There’s great chemistry between the two, highlighting the very high, very dangerous precipice that Alves finds herself at.  Naturally, this lets Matt really shine as well; in attempting to “save” her, we see all the personal characteristics that have defined Matt: his sense of responsibility, his heroism, his empathy, his passion, and, of course, his constant sense of guilt and his desire to atone for past wrongs.  In this case, in appealing to Rachel, he’s also trying to make up for what he sees as his failure in reforming Frank.  It makes for a strong, compelling read that says as much about Matt as it does Rachel.