A certain number of artists have contributed to the Marvel comic strip “Daredevil” over the years, lending their own unique visual style to the ongoing lawyers of the blind lawyer and the vigilance Matt Murdock. David Mack, however, could be the most unique of everyone. Mack uses an approach to mixed media of his art, combining watercolor, ink and pencil (sometimes with collage materials like printed paper or even scrabble letters) to create extremely inventive sequential images that tell powerful stories. His best known work is in “Daredevil”, where he is both an artist and writer, Co-creation of the character of Echo With Joe Quesada and contributing to some of the best arcs in the series (like the incredible “alarm clock”).

Now, the longtime Marvel artist has contributed to the production of “Daredevil: Born again”, the Disney + series It works both as a continuation of the “Daredevil” show Netflix and a chance for Marvel Studios to prove that he can manage more mature content on the platform. In the first episodes of the series, we see that there is a mysterious hooded silhouette setting up graffiti around New York, including a disturbing wall of the boss of crime Aka Wilson Fisk (Vincent d’Onofrio). This wall painting, as well as the others who belong to the series, were painted by none other than Mack himself.

“Daredevil: Born Again” Characteristics The nasty muse, a masked superhuman Who is also a serial killer. Created by the writer Charles Soule and the artist Ron Garney, Muse is a relatively new addition to the Marvel Canon. Appearing for the first time in “Daredevil” # 11 in 2016, he used the blood of his victims to paint giant wall paintings criticizing a variety of figures in New York, including Daredevil and even She-Hulk. In the second episode of “Born Again”, we see what is probably painted by a wall painting of the working ankle which portrays the crook that has become the duplicity of the politician, revealing an angry face under a smiling. Although white aerosol paint is clearly not blood (it could have been too far for Disney +), the wall is rather great.

The writer and comic book artist “Daredevil” Brian Michael Bendis shared his excitement on the Mack wall in the series on his Bluesky accountPublishing the name of Mack in the credits of the series with photos of some of his adventures with the artist. (The two years have met before working on “Daredevil” together.) It is fantastic to see one creator celebrating another – and Mack’s artistic talent is certainly worthy of celebration. That there is undoubtedly, his wall “Daredevil: Born Again” is only the last of a long career of excellence.

Mack worked on two “Daredevil” arcs as an inner artist and one as a writer, approaching part of the more difficult content of the series and giving it life with very beautiful works of art. In “Daredevil vol. 2” # 16-19, the “Wake Up” arc, the story follows the journalist of the Daily Bugle Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall on the series “Daredevil” of Netflix) while he tries to help a young boy named Timmy, who suffers from dissociative episodes after having attended a fight between his father and Daredevil. This is a fairly intense subject, but it is carefully managed, which makes an incredible story “Daredevil” which does not really present as much Daredevil.

Meanwhile, “Daredevil Vol. 2” # 51-55 is the original story of The Hero Echo. It starts with her time as a deaf little girl named Maya Lopez, the semi-dogpin’s semi-dropped girl, and like “Wake Up”, does not really present a tonne of man without fear, but still constitutes an excellent addition to the Global Canon “Daredevil”. (Echo notably obtained his own Disney + series With Alaqua Cox as Maya, giving the character a certain deserved attention.) Mack also contributed as a co-writer to the brilliant “parts of a hole” which introduced the echo for the first time, bringing her visual sensitivity to comics despite not doing the inner art.

But while Mack is one of the best to have ever worked on “Daredevil”, there is another comic strip where it shines even more. It would be his own series, “Kabuki”.

Mack’s most personal and powerful work is his “Kabuki” comic strip. He follows Ukiko, a young woman from Japan close to the future who works like Kabuki Aka one of the Noh, a group of nine highly qualified government assassins. The first major arc, “Circle of Blood”, follows Kabuki as she takes revenge like her and her mother, because Kabuki was the product of a brutal rape of a Japanese soldier. (The same soldier later discovered his daughter and marked her with the word “Kabuki” on his face, in reference to the pieces in which his mother had acted.)

After “Circle of Blood”, the story is relatively without action, focusing rather on Kabuki while it entered a prison establishment for mentally ill agents. There, she treats her trauma and has new friends before escaping and embarking on a peaceful life outside Japan. There are also secondary stories that follow the other NOH agents, including a beautiful and tragic on the Scarab agent, with the art of Rick Mays.

“Kabuki” is a complete story that ends with “Kabuki: alchemy” painted and lush glued, which is a more existential exploration than the traditional story and presents one of the most beautiful and deepest stories of all comics. In a dream world, the series would one day obtain its own adaptation, because it is the perfect type of deeply specific personal history which also manages to be really relatable on the human level.

Anyway, it’s wonderful to see Mack having the chance to shine on “Daredevil: Born again”. Hopefully, this is only another step towards a “Kabuki” television program. A fan can dream.