The last time I paid much attention to Scott McDaniel, he was drawing Daredevil comics for Marvel in the early 1990s, and this book reads like any other from that era. The art is busy, bright and gauche. The artist doesn’t trust himself to construct a convincing narrative using only pictures and so he further busies the page with captions explaining what the reader is supposedly seeing on the panels, resorting at least once to thought balloons -- a long-thought-dead technique that not even Stephen King was allowed to use when he did work for DC last year. Neither villains nor hero is given much depth or motivation aside from their names and appearance -- and hell yes, if I looked like a fish, I’d be a villain, too.
Writing thirteen reviews in the space of a week does not entitle me to snark, but if it did, my review of Static Shock #1 would be this: “If you're looking for a well-written, well-drawn story about a teenage superhero, check out Ultimate Spider-Man #1, on sale September 14.”
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