C2E2: Waid, Rivera & Martin on 'Daredevil'

Cover to Daredevil #1 by Paolo Rivera.

The new creative team for Daredevil was announced today at Marvel’s Cup ‘o Joe Panel and it is none other than Mark Waid and artists Paolo Rivera and Marcos Martin (both artists most recent stunning work has been featured in Amazing Spider-Man).

"We want to keep the noir, we want to keep it gritty, we want to keep it street-level,” Waid said at the panel.  "The question is, can we move the dial just a little bit up on the superhero scale, just a tiny bit, and get back to more of the swashbuckler adventurer for Matt?"

I was surprised, but extremely happy to see Waid’s name on this project. Here’s a guy who has turned in sturdy, enjoyable stories with ease on Amazing, and then shocked the hell out of everybody with Irredeemable. Then this week I read Ruse and I'm beginning to think that Waid may be comicdom’s greatest chameleon.

Let’s hope Waid has more to offer to the Marvel Universe. If so, we may need to add to that list of Architects.

Daredevil #1 is scheduled for release this July.