Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks) has been turning his hand to writing comics lately; he’ll have a revival of Geenarrow late this year, and his Jay and Silent Bob comics have been doing well, but his mainstream comics debut is the re-launched DAREDEVIL series for marvel. Judging by the first issue, he’s not going too far afield of what we expected from the exploits of the blind superhero– at least he’s giving artist Joe Quesada a lot of opportunities to draw Daredevil swinging by a rope all over the city– but he’s also digging into the Christian icongraphy that’s always been a subtext of the series (the first story line appears to concern a virgin birth). Besides, his filmaker’s knack for pacing, dialogue and choosing images that say a lot serves him well in his new medium.