Daredevil Science

November 24, 2012

Wacky Power #21 – The aura sensing is back!

So yes, I've been giving Brian Bendis a hard time lately. Some day soon, I'll make up for it by posting my top ten moments […]

August 30, 2012

Radar show object near, but nothing from far away, from Daredevil #1, by Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera

The radar simulation

I know, the title of this post sounds a little bit like an episode of The Big Bang Theory, but you're just going to have […]

June 27, 2012

Daredevil science and proprioception

This post contains spoilers for Daredevil #14, so read the issue first! And you should, it was great! Recently, one reader left the below comment […]

April 28, 2012

Daredevil "sees" Mole Man with his radar sense, from Daredevil #10, by Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera

The philosophy of Paolo Rivera’s radar

Yes, the title of this post is deliberately ambiguous, somewhat pretentious and possible misleading. First of all, Paolo Rivera doesn't actually have a radar sense, […]

April 7, 2012

Fonts at various sizes, infogram

Daredevil’s sense of touch, quantified!

Yes, it's time for a science post again. For this installment, I'm basically going to continue the discussion that began in a previous post from a […]

March 22, 2012

Panels from Daredevil #6 showing Matt hearing things, by Mark Waid and Marcos Martín

The sounds of silence

It's been a while since I did a Daredevil science post, but as there still remains loads of things to cover - despite the 30,000(!) […]

February 11, 2012

What’s wrong with this picture?

In all the excitment I felt after seeing the preview for Daredevil #9, I completely forgot to look for that other book Daredevil appears in, […]

October 9, 2011

Daredevil taps his club against a chimney, from Daredevil #1 by Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera

A history of the radar sense – present time

As any longtime reader will know, I love scrutinizing Daredevil's senses, both from a scientific and conceptual perspective. That is to say that I enjoy […]

January 13, 2011

Matt talking to Luke, from Daredevil #43

It’s radar magic! (You don’t have to explain it)

Before we get to my review of Daredevil: Reborn #1 later today (see also Newsarama's brand new interview with Andy Diggle), I'm going to treat […]

June 14, 2010

Heather is cheering Matt up by offering a game for two

Matt’s about to get some…

Since I'm in the middle of writing a post summing up the entire last two years of Daredevil stories in preparation for Shadowland - an […]

May 31, 2010

closeup of braille on a page

Daredevil Science and the sense of touch

Yes, we're finally getting to the end of the Daredevil Science series, though this post doesn't actually mark the end. Yes, believe it or not, […]

May 14, 2010

Daredevil and echolocation

As I've mentioned over the course of my ongoing series A history of the radar sense, Daredevil's ability to detect and identify objects and obstacles […]

May 9, 2010

Science in the Marvel Universe Handbook

This is the first post of of the three I mentioned in my "science week" introductory post a couple of days ago. Here we'll be […]

May 7, 2010

Introducing Daredevil Science Week!

As you may have noticed, since January I've gone from posting ten to twelve times a month to around eight. There are a few different […]

May 5, 2010

Wacky power #20 – The human Geiger counter

Wow, can you believe Daredevil has (had) so many wacky powers that this series is now up to twenty posts? Well, this probably won't be […]

March 19, 2010

Wacky power #19 – “I sense a phone call”

What's this, you ask? Two phone-related wacky powers back to back? Why yes! Some of you may recall Wacky power #18 which saw Matt perform […]

January 31, 2010

Wacky power #18 – Psychic hotline

You know those numbers you can call to have someone read your fortune or give you advice on a pressing matter? I'm not going to […]

December 10, 2009

On comic book realism and Daredevil’s senses

I love it when you guys comment on my posts. Having people engage with the content I put out on this blog is rewarding in […]

December 6, 2009

A history of the radar sense #6

Yes, it's time for one of those radar posts again, and we will finally be moving into post-Miller territory, and covering the Daredevil of Denny […]

October 3, 2009

Beyond the radar – some under-used Daredevil skills

Regular readers have probably figured out by now that I'm not crazy about Daredevil's powers being used to perform tricks that defy all logic (there's […]

September 5, 2009

Wacky power #17 – Sensing color by touch

In his most recent review of Daredevil #106, Robert of the Matt Murdock Chronicles discussed an instance of Matt talking about his color sensing ability, […]

August 18, 2009

A history of the radar sense #5 – Frank Miller part 2

While I always tend to write about things I want to write about on this blog (with the odd exception of some mandatory news reporting), […]

March 21, 2009

A history of the radar sense #4 – Frank Miller part 1

Well, there's been a lot of things going on lately. Andy Diggle was announced as the next Daredevil writer, and I gave the site a […]

March 9, 2009

Wacky power #16 – I can watch porn with my hands

Here's another hand on screen moment. These are rare (probably because they should be impossible), but we saw a couple of instances of reading computer […]