By the way, I wonder who’ll be the artist for Daredevil #14 and the next few issues after that. It’s also not really clear to me if Daredevil #12 is the start of a new arc. Then again, it’s nice how Waid has kept the arcs short with long-term plot threads connecting them.

I’m not all that up-to-date on Ragnarok but perhaps whatever energy maelstrom he is generating in hovering (for that is what it looks like to me), wind included, may be hampering Matt’s radar sense.

Has Matt met Ragnarok prior to this encounter? If not, he may not know he is a clone. Thus any difference or odd sense Matt gets from him, Matt may chalk up to interference from the maelstrom, weather, whatever.

Although this brings up an interesting point. Whose sense of smell is ‘better’, Matt’s or Logan’s? Matt can’t tell but Logan is adamant. So how can Logan know for sure yet Matt doesn’t??

And it is hard to tell who is saying what. Stranger and stranger…

*It’s a RealPlayer file, but should work in VLC (free to download and able to handle almost every format) and others I might not know of.

I also discovered that my assumption was very much wrong: this is not at a distance at all. See http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?pid=11433&pg=3 In fact, they’re so close to Ragnarok (the evil Thor clone) that Wolverine covers that distance in a single leap. In light of this new information (new to me anyway), smell is definitely back in play (though seriously hampered by wind) and Matt’s line becomes even more confusing.

The best no prize explanation I can come up with: all the wind kicked up by Thor is blowing about a great deal of debris that is acting as chaff, obscuring Matt’s radar. This fails to explain why all this debris does not obstruct the others’ sight, or why it’s not visible to the reader, or where it came from since they’re on top of a building and not on a street, but oh well.

Two last thoughts on this preview page. First, Thor can’t float in air. While often forgotten by writers and artists, Thor doesn’t fly: he throws Mjolnir and gets dragged along after it. To float in the air, he has to whirl Mjolnir around like a helicoptor. Thor should be plummeting to the Earth on this page, a much less intimidating opponent.

Second, what the hell is Wolverine doing? Who jumps off a building to attack a guy who can fly? What if he missed or got batted away? He’d fall who knows how far and be out of commission for a long time. Just because it turned out to be the best play possible doesn’t mean it was smart at the time.

I beg to disagree, Aaron! I agree that this is probably at some distance, but in that case it would have made more sense for DD to just say “I can’t tell, he’s too far away.” Distance should also affect his radar sense. If “Thor” is very far away he should just register as a man-shaped blob or something. As far as scent goes, I always imagined Thor appearing in the sky would smell of ozone or something, like after a lightning storm.

Love your list. Funnily enough, I’d always planned to do something similar on my own blog once I’d finally caught up to present day continuity.

I kind of disagree with JA about Turk knifing Daredevil – it illustrated how far Matt had fallen and also what Turk has to do to survive on the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen. He may not have had much of a reputation but he still got one from somewhere.

Shout out to Bill for including two undervalued characters on his suggestions – Debbie Harris and the Fat Boys.

But overall, Aaron, great fun!

Robert

@Polter-Cow – I second that!

Who’s saying “Uh, if you are indeed Thor, could you go and–”? It looks like the invisible man between Spider-Man and the lump that’s probably supposed to be Dr. Strange.