Daredevil: Dark Nights #1

If you want to enjoy a fine example of the power of the comic-book medium check out Lee Weeks' Daredevil: Dark Nights #1. Good art creates a space where you're participating in whatever you're witnessing -- whether watching a play or looking at a painting -- but you're also someplace else, almost like another planet with light gravity, where your mind is able to roam free, moving light as a feather here and there wherever it wants to go. It's totally refreshing. And while you can access this space by reading a book, I think it's more difficult. Following the written line, finding what Jack London called the White Logic, requires a type of concentration that moves in the opposite direction of that "someplace else" space.

Below are five scans from the opening pages of Lee Weeks' Daredevil: Dark Nights #1, colors done beautifully by Lee Loughridge. There's something about Daredevil and Manhattan rooftop water tanks (scan #2) that captures an essential part of New York City that I haven't found accurately represented elsewhere: