Matt Hollingworth is a magician, not a colourist. It might be that a sound effect is coloured yellow, giving that particular sound a sharpness, emphasising it so that you almost hear it, especially when yellow has been absent for two or three pages before masterfully popping into the frame. At times it’s a sweeping background, at others a smidgeon in a dirty wash of greys, browns and blues. The colour yellow comes into its own here, rarely so beautifully applied. Sale captures the essence of the story in a sincere and emotional way, never out of step, and bringing an old-school cool to Daredevil and a deep and creepy eeriness to the villains. It’s classically Daredevil in its simplicity with large and flowing frames.
Tim Sale’s art is a thing of beauty, simultaneously redolent of a 1960s style and a distinctly modern feel. When all is said and done, Matt’s lovers have come and gone but Foggy has always remained. These two men have a genuine love and respect for each other, easily overlooked.
It’s also about friendship, specifically Matt’s friendship with Foggy Nelson, and how this remains a major cog in the Daredevil story despite their tensions and disagreements. It scores, though, with honesty and realistic rendering of how emotions like grief and love can drive us and leave their mark on us. The writing lacks that ‘loving feel’ for Daredevil that Miller has (this is Loeb’s first and last outing on Daredevil to date) and is more of a tribute to Daredevil’s creators. It’s about the early days of Daredevil rather than a re-imagining like Frank Miller’s version. It doesn’t start at the very beginning when Matt loses his sight, but rather with his father Jack’s boxing career and murder. To process his grief after Karen dies, Murdock/Daredevil pens a series of letters telling Daredevil’s story in flashback. Yellow centres around Matt Murdock’s relationships with his first love Karen Page, his father Jack Murdock, and friend and business partner Foggy Nelson. It’s a companion piece to their previous Spider-Man and Hulk stories, titled respectively Blue and Grey. The earliest work of Stan Lee and Bill Everett on the character is the basis for this story, written by Jeph Loeb and pencilled by long-time collaborator Tim Sale, with yellow the favoured colour. Yellow is not so much a reworked origin story of Daredevil than it is a homage to that original story, when in Daredevil first outings his costume was predominantly yellow.
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