Wacky Powers

August 26, 2021

Daredevil swings down and lands on a car in Daredevil #14, apparently guided more by its sound than its shape.

Reevaluating early Daredevil

If you were thinking that I had gone back into hiding, I certainly wouldn't hold it against you. It's been over a month since my […]

July 10, 2021

Matt reads braille at the library, in Daredevil #4 (1964), commenting that he could read print just as fast, by feeling the imprints

Have I been too hard on Stan Lee? On reading and sensing colors by touch

Some time ago, while doing research for my book, I came across a piece of information that took me by great surprise. In fact, to […]

July 31, 2017

The silent ninja conundrum

Well, I could have saved this little detail for my big post about the tail end of Daredevil, season two. But, fearing that it would […]

March 30, 2014

Wacky Power #24 – Another case of flight radar

Welcome back to another installment in the Wacky Powers series in which we look at Daredevil doing truly strange things. Once again, we'll be looking […]

December 15, 2013

Wacky Power #23 – Flying a plane. Again

Considering Daredevil's blindness, the number of times he's found himself flying some kind of aircraft is pretty astounding. And to be clear, any number higher […]

March 3, 2013

Daredevil talks of birdlike emanations, from Daredevil #22 by Stan Lee and Gene Colan

Wacky Power #22 – “Birdlike emanations”

Here's a quick post to get back into the groove of things! Remember how Daredevil has shown the ability to sense a villainous aura? This […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

October 28, 2008

Wacky power #15 – Heat sensing and the groovy stuff you can do with it

Here's an example from Daredevil #131, by Marv Wolfman and Bob Brown (with Klaus Janson on inks), of Daredevil doing something he's presumably quite good […]

July 24, 2008

Wacky power #14 – Discerning photographs

I have a couple of panels ready for this post and the distantly related "seeing goof" I'll get to next, so I thought I'd just […]

July 23, 2008

Wacky power #13 – X-ray vision

I'll be the first to admit that I don't like Daredevil's radar sense penetrating solid objects. Now, don't get me wrong, if we are in […]

July 13, 2008

Wacky power #12 – Daredevil lands the Avenger’s Quinjet

The careful observer may remember one of the very first posts in this series, in which Daredevil lands a rocket guided only by his uncanny […]

June 19, 2008

Wacky power #11 – Reading computer screens… by touch

Since this one came up in the comments section of a previous post, and I've been thinking of posting it for a while, I decided […]

May 14, 2008

Wacky power #10 – Daredevil: paleobotanist

Here is another panel from Daredevil #12, suggested a while back by fellow DD fan Francesco (*waves*). This panel is funny for a couple of […]

May 14, 2008

Wacky power #9 – What time is it really?

Well, I thought I'd get back to posting again with a couple of wacky power posts, just to warm up. This one, from Daredevil #12 […]

April 30, 2008

Daredevil senses and alien space craft in Daredevil #28

Wacky power #8 – Daredevil “senses” something (again)

Yes, another unscheduled post that I just had to write. Before getting to the wacky power of the day, I also thought I'd mention that […]

March 26, 2008

Matt speedreading at the office.

Wacky power #7 – Speedreading

Okay, you know all those websites that supposedly teach you how to read at incredible speed? They usually focus on things like cutting down on […]

March 25, 2008

Matt bending bars of steel.

Wacky power #6 – bending steel

Okay, some people are going to hate me for this, but... having a heightened sense of touch does not allow you to bend steel unless […]

March 20, 2008

Matt picks up a radio transmission while on a boat.

Wacky power #5 – Doctor, will my internal antenna give me a brain tumor?

This is one of the wackiest of them all. This is ability is wacky to the point of later having been outright denied in other […]